During his appearance as a witness to the first -day money laundering prosecutor, Enrique Rodríguez, Felipe Caorsi said he had information on the international livestock connections, including people linked to Sebastián Marset’s criminal organization that would have served as a model to implement a Ponzi scheme in a Uruguayan cattle background. He also said he has information about several bank accounts linked to livestock connection partners, Pablo Carrasco and Gustavo Basso.
Coresi, who appeared before prosecutor Rodríguez in mid -April, declared that he began studying the livestock connection case because following his columns in The morning He was contacted by two savers, one who had invested $ 12,000 and another 20,000. Given this, he communicated with Carrasco, who told him that they were going to charge that they were “making an audit” after the death of Gustavo Basso.
“I transmitted that to the two investors to whom I created an expectation that was not real, without knowing it. That motivated me to reach the bottom of the investigation, for the indignation that Carrasco’s response gave me, since for my financial training I understood that I could reach the route of money and committed myself to that, to make the money appear,” he said.
As for international livestock connection contacts, Caorsi declared that he received consultations from Argentine victims and spoke with Paraguayan rural journalists and producers who contacted him with people “who used a similar ponzi scheme in Paraguay to wash money and [con] People who were related to Marset. ” Then that organization separates, the idea arises from Paraguay and that model is copied in Uruguay, ”Caorsi said to prosecutor Rodríguez.
In addition, he said to have information about the accounts of the organization in the United Kingdom. “I have information about open accounts and who would be the headlines,” he said, although he refused to provide the direct source of that information because they are “several -year colleagues” regarding the accounts in the United States, Caorsi said that livestock connection had opened them to install a restaurant chain with the Stradivarius brand, but the business never concretized, and also said that there are goods in Madrid that belong to the livestock connection.
Coresi said he had information on livestock connections that he considers hidden: “I have deeds and documentation about hidden goods product of this scam; in Uruguay, for example, I have evidence of the scribe who participated,” he added.
As for the contracts, the witness said he had evidence that some contracts of the company were false and described the modifications that livestock connection made to the drafting of the contract to be considered excluded from the obligation to inform the Central Bank of Uruguay (BCU) about its operation. Coresi said that livestock connection was created in 2001 with five partners, two of whom were “bank -related engineers” who live outside the country and that were “the brains that created the Ponzi scheme.” In his statements he attributed that information to a person close to the Basso family, but without giving their names.
“I have access to the first contracts, in which the Ponzi scheme is already envision [del BCU] to modify here in more all livestock connection contracts that use financial terminology, ”he said.
Coresi said that Carrasco sent mails to all customers to inform them that they would not be regulated by the BCU, which prevented the entry of cash and the lack of clarity regarding the origin of the funds were known. “Some income were paid with Basso checks deposited by mailbox, instead of a livestock connection transfer,” he said, and said that in cases where the investment exceeded 100,000 dollars divided the contribution by two, for which they used the name of a relative in order to avoid controls.
“The day that Basso died, livestock connection was closed by duel. That day 26 contracts were signed, and in December last year, after Basso died and there are breaches, contracts were formed for US $ 32,682,790. Many of the contracts that appear in livestock connection are false. I propose that since June 2024 to December 2024, when there was an exponential growth of the amounts and exponential growth of the amounts The contracts, find out who the true owners of those contracts were, since I consider that they were false, ”he said.
