A fraudster who received $400,000 as a “deposit” for two IPV houses was sentenced to three years of suspended prison, judicial sources said.
Edgardo Ariel Ontivero accepted the sentence in an abbreviated trial in which he admitted his guilt for the crime of fraud.
The investigation was led by prosecutor Eduardo Gallastegui, of the UFI for Computer Crimes and Fraud.
The now convicted man was denounced by a woman named Páez, who on the 6th of this month stated that the accused, Edgardo Ariel Ontivero, had offered her and her partner two IPV homes in exchange for money, and that in order to “sign them ” had to pay him $200,000 for each house.
The complainant, in a state of housing need, transferred the total sum of $400,000 to the man to her Mercado Pago account. As time passed, the scammer began to give her excuses for the delay in delivering the homes and blocked her from the social networks through which they communicated.
When collecting information from the accused, the judicial investigators confirmed that he had pending criminal cases for fraud and other frauds. Specifically, he had an arrest warrant from the 1st Court of Instruction for the crime of fraud and another complaint filed with the 2nd Court of Instruction in 2023, also for fraud similar to the one that gave rise to this tax file.
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