The federal judge of Lomas de Zamora Federico Villena He was in the sights of Justice for the purchase of a house that he would have declared at a lower price than the market price and financed with alleged simulated loans and sales of fictitious real estate. The magistrate was denounced and charged by the Attorney for Economic Crime and Money Laundering (Procelac), in charge of the prosecutor Diego Velasco.
The property that Villena acquired is located on Zuviría street, in Flores, Capital Federal. The judge bought it in October 2020. He quoted it at a value of US $400,000, but its real price would be almost double, US $790,000, as reported Clarion and ratified THE NATION judicial sources.
To get the house, the magistrate handed over US$400,000 in cash and justified US$322,562.72 as coming from loans that came from people who would not have had the economic capacity to carry out operations of this type.
Villena justified the rest of those US$400.000 with sales that also aroused suspicion in this plot, which caught the attention of the Financial Information Unit (FIU), which summarized it in a report.
One of those sales is that of an apartment located in Rivadavia at 1600, at a value of US$ 36.000. But that property would still belong to the judge.
Also under scrutiny is the sale of an Audi model A4 car for $3.400.000, which would have been effected nine months after the purchase of the home. Another portion of the money came from the sale of shares for US$13,224.
Villena argued that the complaint is false and explained that the purchase of the house was an immediate sale for which he requested money loans from people he trusted. In addition, he denied that the value of the property whose acquisition is being questioned is US$800,000.
Among other controversial judicial decisions, Villena was the judge who ordered to return Karina Moyano, daughter of Hugo Moyanohalf a million dollars that were frozen in a case that investigated drug trafficking funds.
The federal judge of Lomas de Zamora had made that decision in full judicial fair, which included the dismissal of Moyano’s daughter and the restitution of almost half a million dollars and 600,000 pesos that were paralyzed in a drug trafficking file that was being processed in another court. The decision was then revoked in higher instances. Villena faced complaints for poor performance that did not advance in the Judicial Council.
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