It was known as the “Horror Sect” and was, for Justice, a criminal organization that worked under the facade of the so -called Yoga School of Buenos Aires (EyBA). In the last hours, an elevation court confirmed the prosecution of 17 of its members for crimes as Illicit Association, Trafficking with people for sexual exploitation y money laundering.
The decision was taken, by majority, by Chamber II of the Federal Criminal and Correctional Appeals Chamber.
“This measure is in line with a resolution issued last December by the Federalariel Lijo Judge in tune with the request made by the Federal Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office No. 4, in charge of Carlos Stornelliand the co -students of the Attorney General’s Office and Exploitation of Persons (Protex), Alejandra Mángano and Marcelo Colombo, ”said the judicial news site of the Attorney General’s Office, www.fiscales.gob.ar.
The Court of Alzada as well, as the Public Prosecutor’s Office had requested, revoked the dismissal of one of the accused, who served as a clinical doctor in the so -called Comprehensive Medical Center where, as the researchers would have determined, “the so -called students slept for days by supplying different types of psychoopharmacus.”
Among the 17 accused to those confirmed by the processing is Juan Percowiczthe leader of the “Horror sect.”
According to the judicial file, the sexual exploitation of the students was mainly made at the headquarters of the Eyba, in Villa Crespo. The ninth floor of the building located in the state of Israel 4457 was known as the “Museo” and was conditioned as if it were the room of a hotel accommodation.
The headquarters was not the only place where what was called the “Geishado” was practiced. It was also carried out in Palermo departments and even in five stars.
The case was known in August 2022, when Judge Lijo ordered a series of 50 raids and the detention, at the time, of about twenty suspects.
At the time, judicial sources had explained that at the domicile of the leader of the organization a folder entitled “Trinchera CC Botanical, Chief Department” was kidnapped, in which a “data sheet” of certain men to whom Eyba put as “objective” of the “Geishado” plan could be identified.
“The common denominator of the identified [en la carpeta] It was his high heritage. As stated in investigation, given the refusal to comply with the orders given, the victims could end up in an confinement situation in any institution, ”explained a judicial source.
In September 2023, Judge Lijo had raised the first section of the case to trial. Then, at the request of the defenses, Chamber II of the Federal Criminal and Correctional Appeals Chamber decreed the nullity of the elevation to trial and ordered the magistrate to evaluate the evidence produced after the dictation of the processing. From the aforementioned ruling, Lijo again reviewed the test and confirmed what he had already arranged in the case in a timely manner.
After the resolution of the Court of Alzada, the prosecutors Stornelli, Mángano and Colombo indicated that although the sight conferred, it was limited to value that produced after the prosecutions, “only an analysis that put in relation to the test collected throughout the case would shed light on the facts that are investigated,” according to www.fiscales.gob.ar.
“In their opinion, prosecutors put in dialogue that evidence incorporated prior to processing and that which was later incorporated, among other things, by the magnitude of the investigation of transnational nature and that involved approximately 50 raids. Among the new evidence, they valued the expertise of electronic devices, reports of telephone interventions and evidence sent by the United States authorities via international cooperation news.
The recent ruling of the Court of Alzada had the vote in most of the Judges Roberto Boico y Martín Irurzun and, in a minority, by Judge Eduardo Farah.
“The hypotheses that make up the object of this cause have been founded in multiple indications that built the imputation. It is precisely on them that the defenses are silent, pretending to limit the debate to the confrontant between the study of the Forensic Medical Body and the report presented by the General Directorate of Investigations and Technological Support for Criminal Research (Datip) to omit to pronounce on any of all the other material constitories Indiciary, were valued in the merit car and extended in the pronouncement that is examined, ”said Judge Irurzun in his vote.
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