Paul Oswald Morani, 56, with a US passportnationalized Argentine, is registered as businessman in Argentina, with a registration in the AFIP and a tax address on Santa Fe Avenue. He founded or integrated more than a dozen companies since 2003 such as Asian Pacific Cargo SRL, according to the Official Gazette, with a variety of Argentine partners. He had some brushes with the law in this country. A file for drug law violation that involves him was processed in the Federal Court of Corrientes, which last April decided to hand over a Toyota Hilux truck that had been seized years ago, after an appeal by his defense.
Today, he is detained in North American territory. The United States Justice is investigating him for other things. According to a confidential report accessed InfobaeMorani was accused of installing “a set of shell companies based in Miami to illegally divert large sums of cash from Colombia and in largely from Argentina into US bank accounts” to allegedly launder drug money
“In 2018, Morani’s bank accounts and seven of its corporate entities, including companies in South Florida and Delaware, They received $350 million in funds, largely from Argentina. The companies presented themselves as shipping companies dedicated to the international transportation of commercial cargo,” the report continues, fiscal shell operations without employees or real businesses.
This week, the Interpol division of the PFA arrested at the request of the American Justice Maria Eugenia Delannoy, accused of being one of his accomplices in Argentina. The captured near the Santa Barbara country in Tigre, where the woman lived. Morani, precisely, had provided an address in Santa Barbara to found one of his many Argentine companies.
Delannoy, 54, is also registered with the AFIP. In recent years, unusually, he collected the Universal Child Allowance, according to his data in the ANSES. He joined at least two companies in the last decade, without expressly linking himself to Morani in the directories.
The request from the United States Justice to arrest her – without a red notice against her – was received by federal judge Sebastián Ramos, who indicated tasks to the General Directorate of International Police Cooperation of the PFA to capture it. Thus, a crossing of information bases began. It was discovered that Delannoy had the habit of driving high-end vehicles, none as the owner, all as an authorized person.
Then, She was located in Santa Barbara thanks to security tracking of her vehicles and was arrested this Thursday, while arriving at the scene. The charges against him are, precisely, the crimes of issuing illegal money transfers from Argentina to shell companies registered in the United States, the business for which Morani is being investigated. with whom Delannoy would have a family connection.
In mid-March, according to investigators in the case, prosecutors from the Southern District of Florida accused Morani of leading the money laundering conspiracy, with drug traffickers throughout the continent. Federal investigators in the United States maintain that He used his winnings to buy a $2.3 million condo in Miami Beach. Also, it is suspected that he had approximately 18 million dollars in profits in accounts of one of the most recognized financial firms in the world.
This June 25, Morani must appear at a hearing before Judge Beth Bloom, in charge of the District Court of the Southern District of Florida, according to public court records in the United States.
