In dialogue with AIRthe lawyer Ignacio Chigal, who represents seven of the 11 affected families, told in detail how the mechanism by which the owner of the company Modern Houselocated at 6600 Facundo Zuviría, would have kept large sums of money between January 2021 and the first days of this month.
“They began by signing many contracts with individuals, and the modus operandi consisted of a significant delivery of money to obtain 70% of the contract amount and from there in theory they would begin to build the home. They played a lot with the very short deadline that was granted to them, which was 90 days. People were very seduced by that short term, because they handed over 70% and from there they began to build the house, a fact that never happened,” he clarified.
The lawyer explained that all the cases are similar and that, in the majority, the foundations of the houses were not even built: “Only two families were able to build three or four walls, nothing more than that.”
The victims are from various locations in Santa Fe and Entre Ríos, and they contacted the company through social networks, mainly Facebook and Instagram: “They contacted and then went to the company. The kindness was so great that it generated joy, but then it went Suspicion fell. They even went to the city of Paraná to charge the families ‘not to bother’ coming here.”
Regarding the volume of money that these contracts that were never finalized meant, Chigal indicated that the amount is almost 28 million pesos, although he clarified that it is a figure that must be updated and that, in that case, it would exceed 250 million pesos. “There are families that settled the entire contract, and in many cases significant sums in dollars were given to them,” he added.
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The businessman, identified as Néstor S., was arrested in a home in the Sargento Cabral neighborhood.
It is now being investigated whether the owner of the construction company, identified as Néstor Gabriel S., had the participation of his partner to carry out the alleged scams. “The complaint has a theory that must demonstrate what the illicit association was. These types of complex cases cannot be carried out individually, but there is a group of people who carry out this scam,” suggested Chigal.
Currently, Néstor Gabriel S. was detained and next Tuesday, at a time to be defined by the Judicial Management Office, it will be debated whether the case will be detained, with preventive detention, or be released.
