In any investigation, phones are a key piece to clarify crimes. For that reason, he alarmed the Buenos Aires investigating judge. Paula Gonzalez the disappearance of two cell phones and a netbook that the Anti-Fraud Division of the PFA seized from Alexander Muszak, the CEO of fintech Wenancewhom he investigates for scams.
In the absence of the devices, the head of the Criminal and Correctional Court No. 43 presented a complaint for the alleged commission of “crime of public action”. A piece of information provided by the sources: “The Federal Police I had arranged to move the devices from one warehouse to another without asking the magistrate or informing her why or why they were doing it.”
Sources of the case indicated to Infobaethat this Friday, the deputy commissioner Marcelo Rodríguez Vimo, who has not yet taken office, but is responsible for the Division, went to the court to communicate the news, after the judge asked them to make a forensic copy.
“They don’t appear, but they are looking for them.”. There are many seized devices that the courts never ask for and are left in containers,” they argued about the disappearance of the items seized last year.
Although they admit that The episode is “regrettable”, For the moment, no disciplinary sanctions have been applied, although it is likely that an administrative summary will be opened. The magistrate’s presentation does not include names. The objective of the complaint is that, if the devices do not appear, those responsible will be found, the sources detailed. In the PFA they still don’t consider them lost.
Court No. 50 intervenes in the case and, having unknown authorsdelegated the investigation to Prosecutor’s Office No. 1.
The case against Muszak, in the hands of González, Secretariat No. 109 of Soledad Nieto, began on August 2, 2023 due to raids carried out by the federal authorities on the company’s addresses and the private homes of its directors. That operation had been ordered by the Court of Instruction No. 3 of Ushuaiadue to allegations of pyramid schemes.
At that time, large quantities of documentation, money, electronic devices, computers and phones. Days later, González asked his counterpart from Ushuaia for his incompetence, because he already had a “more advanced” prior investigation in his hands. The magistrate, “after some twists and turns,” granted the request and made available everything that had been done and seized to the Buenos Aires Court.
The material, according to the PFA, was raised as it was requested. On March 20, the judge requested that the electronic devices be sent to the Telephone Expertise Division of City Police.
The Division reported that when the search was carried out, all of them were found, except for a pink Apple brand netbook and two iPhone models 12 and X. The phones belong to Muszak while the computer belongs to a company employee, but was found in the CEO’s car. On the other hand, the rest of the evidence was already elevated.
The CEO of the fintech was arrested on April 15 for crimes of illicit association and scams, in another file in the hands of Vicente López’s prosecutor, Alejandro Guevara. The businessman was arrested for the Sub DDI of Vicente López of the Buenos Aires Police while leaving his home on Las Heras and Avenida Del Libertador, the same one that the Federal Police had raided last year, in the case investigated by the Justice of Tierra del Fuego.
He is accused of carrying out a Ponzi scheme that ended with 27 victims and damage of more than one and a half million dollars.
In the case of prosecutor Guevara, it was determined that the victims “After having their own capital and venturing to increase their money, they made various deposits and transfers, in different sums of money, both in dollars and Argentine pesos”, states a police report, in a family of companies linked to Muszak such as BE Capital Inversora SA, Wenance SA, Créditos Al Río, Wenance Lending, Big Capital, Finap and Fintop. That money, according to Muszak himself, would be reinvested in real estate trusts. Investors got their money back with interest.
Guevara discovered that companies, from more than a year ago until today, They do not comply with the agreed payments or return the money deposited.
Last week, the Central Bank of Uruguay blocked all operations of CEO firms in the neighboring country.
Last August, the magistrate Diego Manuel Paz Zaraviain charge of the Commercial Court No. 16 of Buenos Aires, seized Wenance and Muszak for $450 million in terms of capital, interest and costs, after Latam Consumer Credit BV – an investment fund based in Holland with a Buenos Aires tax domicile and established before the AFIP at least since 2017 – reported it for a debt of $300 million assumed on June 24, 2021 in a series of six notes signed before a notary of between 47 and 55 million pesos each, according to judicial documents to which he accessed Infobae. Carolina Alejandra Collia, Muszak’s spouse, appears as a co-signer.
