During the hearing held on April 16, the accused Francisco Coeymans tried to demonstrate his family roots by pointing out that he had entered into a religious marriage with the Peruvian model Yoko Chong last Sunday, while he was detained.
The Judiciary, through the First Preparatory Investigation Court, issued a preventive detention order for six months against the citizen of Chilean nationality, Francisco Coeymans, former director of Primus Capital, who is under investigation by the Chilean justice system for a series of crimes. financial, including fraud, unfair administration, and malicious use of a false private commercial instrument, as well as money laundering.
As is known, Coeymans was detained by the National Police of Peru at the Pucallpa airport on Friday, April 13, when he intended to travel to the city of Lima.
During the hearing, held on Tuesday, April 16, the accused tried to demonstrate his family roots by pointing out that he had entered into a religious marriage with the Peruvian model Yoko Chong last Sunday, while he was detained. This was questioned by prosecutor José Samanez, since the document presented does not show the signature of the witnesses of the alleged marriage. Furthermore, according to Peruvian regulations, those in charge of issuing civil or marriage contracts are the municipalities.
The arrest warrant was issued after Coeymans did not appear at a formalization hearing on April 3, in which Judge Mariana Leyton of the 4th Guarantee Court of Santiago de Chile ordered him to appear in court. To justify his absence, Coeymans had presented a medical certificate alleging infection with COVID-19 in Lima, Peru, so he could not travel to the neighboring country.
The case in which Coeymans is involved dates back to March 2023, when an internal audit of Primus Capital discovered the existence of 123 allegedly false checks, valued at $5.6 billion Chilean pesos. The company suspended Coeymans, along with former commercial director Ignacio Aménabar, who later fired themselves.
Prosecutor Felipe Sepúlveda of the Oriente Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office in Chile is in charge of the investigation of the alleged fraud, which led the company to file a complaint for various crimes.
According to the media in the neighboring country, to date, the company Primus Capital had to deposit funds for more than US$ 120 million to face the consequences of the alleged fraud scheme, as indicated in the complaint filed.
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– 2024-04-24 03:28:19
