It’s official: the multimillion-dollar megafraud with the promise of a house from the IPV (Provincial Housing Institute) that had 154 families as victims between March 2009 and April 2010, will remain a painful and outrageous memory for those victims, because the five people accused of having defrauded them will not be tried or punished. As this newspaper had anticipated, everything indicated that the case would expire, and this is how judges Juan Carlos Caballero Vidal (h), Martín Heredia Zaldo and Miguel Dávila Saffe (Chamber I, Criminal Chamber) resolved it, judicial sources said.
The court understood that there was a period of 6 years (the maximum sentence for the scam) to investigate, try and sentence them. And that time had ended, since it had to be computed from December 20, 2012, when they were summoned to trial.
When there was a month and a few days left for those 6 years to be completed, in 2018, in Room I they were granted probation, that is, a suspension of the trial for 2 years, in exchange for community tasks and a symbolic payment as reparation for the damage. , which four of the accused did not comply with.
Only one of the accused, Alejandra Dragui, complied with probation and was dismissed, they indicated.
The others don’t. Thus, on November 2, 2018, Marcos Javier Barragán (45) and his mother Myriam Alejandra Quiroga (66) offered about $50,000 to be paid in 18 installments, but they did not pay.
The alleged leader of these maneuvers, Carlos Alberto Albornoz (63), promised to pay $18,000 in 6 installments and did not comply, as did the publicist Pedro Ignacio Roldán Zagarra (65), who offered $12,000 in 12 installments.
When their probation was revoked, there was only one month and days left to prosecute and sentence them, in December 2020, but that was not possible and they had to be dismissed due to statute of limitations.
