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With 11 days left until he serves two months in prison, Alejandro Muszak, founder and CEO of the fintech Wenance, received good news from the Courts. The Court of Appeals and Criminal Guarantees of San Isidro decided to release him and although he is being prosecuted, and the prosecutor has already requested that he go to trial, he will be able to continue the process in freedom.. But before leaving jail, she must wait for a judge to define the “real bond” that she must deposit in order to return to her house.
This was reported to THE NATION sources with access to the file. “The preventive imprisonment of the accused can be left without effect, establishing rules of conduct appropriate to his personal situation in the terms, since I do not find that it can be presumed that he will evade the action of justice or that he will obstruct the investigation, taking into account that the investigation “It has concluded and the prosecutor has already requested the elevation to trial.”said Judge Luis Cayuela when justifying the decision of Chamber II of the Chamber of Appeals and Criminal Guarantees of San Isidro.
Muszak has been imprisoned since April 15 at the request of the prosecutor of Vicente López Alejandro Guevarawho charged him with the crimes of illicit association –as organizer– in a real contest with repeated fraud (23 incidents).
When he was investigated, he denied the accusations against him and stated that he is not a scammer. He defined himself as a businessman who had a bad business turnwhich has a preventive bankruptcy and never wanted to avoid paying its obligations, but it is financially impossible, judicial sources reported.
Wenance is a financial company that is dedicated to providing loans or financing consumption (appliances and motorcycles) to underbanked segments of the population, with high credit risk, to whom it charges interest rates higher than those of the banks. To finance itself, it obtained funds from private trusts, with the promise of high returns to those who invest in these instruments.
The resolution, which also bears the judge’s signature Leonardo Pitlevnikalso benefits the other defendants in the case: Juan Silvero, Rodolfo Cleto García, Anahí Mazalan, Paola Vallone and Pedro Viggianoalso under royal bail.
In addition to ordering that the San Isidro Guarantees Judge Andrea Rodríguez Mentasty determine the amount of the royal bond, judges Cayuela and Pitlevnik ordered that the magistrate also set for Muszak “the obligations that she deems pertinent to ensure his submission to the process, prior to corroborate that there are no legal impediments.”
The appeal court intervened after lawyers Nicolás Ramírez and Carlos González Guerra, Muszak’s defenders, appealed the resolution with which Judge Rodríguez Mentasty denied the request for release presented by the defenders.
The file where prosecutor Guevara requested the elevation to trial is not the only one in which the alleged scams through Wenance are investigated. In the city of Buenos Aires he is processing another case, in the Criminal and Correctional Court No. 43 –subrogated by Judge Paula González–, in which the prosecutor Mónica Cuñarrowhere the victims would amount to 439. “The process is progressing,” reported sources in the case.
