The Federal Court No. 2 of the city of Santa Fe under the responsibility of the Subrogating Federal Judge, Dr. Aurelio Antonio Cuello Murua, Criminal Secretary under the responsibility of Dr. Hernn Lionel Tripicchio, resolved the definitive confiscation of the field of more than 7 hectares that a Santa Fe drug trafficker owns in the province of Mendoza.
The property is located in the town of Bowen, in the General Alvear department and had been purchased by Vicente Pignatawho is currently a fugitive and appears on the list of people wanted by Interpol, on March 25, 2017. The land was part of the extensive estate of cars and properties that the subject owned before fleeing.
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This Monday, the federal justice of the province of Santa Fe reported: “Mr. VICENTE MATAS PIGNATA – DNI 30,681,265 is informed that in the documents titled “PIGNATA, VICENTE MATAS AND OTHERS ABOUT INFRINGEMENT OF ART. 303 INC. 1 OF THE CRIMINAL CODE”, File N FRO 11884/2017, has been resolved: “Santa Fe, April 19, 2024. ORDERS AND SEEN:…WHEREAS:…RESOLVED: 1.- PROCEED TO CONFISCATION IN A DEFINITIVE AND EARLY MANNERwithout prejudice to the rights of third parties acquiring in good faith, of the following assets: 1) the property located facing north to “O” street on the corner of Public Street s/n, Bowen District, General Alvear Department, province of Mendoza, which according to the title consists of a total area of seven hectares, nine thousand six hundred and twenty-two square meters (7 hectares. 9,622 m2) and according to the measurement plan prepared in the month of January 2017, approved and filed with the Directorate. General Cadastre under number 18/19360, has a total area of seven hectares, eight thousand nine hundred and twenty-three meters twenty-seven square decimeters (7hs. 8,923.27m2), it is included within the linear measurements, and the following boundaries: to the North: at one hundred thirty-nine meters twenty centimeters with “O” street; Sud: in equal measure owned by Ariel Matas Perella; East: at five hundred and sixty-seven meters with alley “15”; and West: in equal length with property of Lucas Daniel Iglesias; whose domain is registered in the Real Property Registry under Registration 5952/18 – Seat A-3 – Real Folio of General Alvear – Mendoza – “
It also resolves to confiscate “the Renault brand car, modern Sandero Stepway PH2 year 2012, domain KXO478. (article 23 and 305, second paragraph of the Penal Code). (…) “; so that within a period of five (5) business days he may present himself and oppose the defenses he considers sufficient.
Vicente Pignata has been a fugitive from justice for five years. The last clue that Justice obtained was that reside in a house in Country El Pasowhich had irregularly acquired the basketball player Carlos “Lancha” Delfino, Former member of the Golden Generation of the Argentine basketball team.
The investigation further revealed that Pignata accumulated considerable wealth, including at least 13 high-end automobiles and several properties in Santa Fe, Colastin Norte, Santo Tom and the province of Mendoza.
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