PNC presents 15 captured for fraud in COSAVI – Diario La Página – 2024-05-13 02:27:00

This afternoon, 15 people accused of having committed fraud in the Santa Victoria Savings and Credit Cooperative of RL (COSAVI) were presented to the press, who have been detained for a few days.

Among those detained are 8 directors of the cooperative and other alleged involved parties. The authorities presented those captured but did not allow the press to ask questions about this case.

«All people related to this criminal structure will be brought to the attention of the courts. In addition, 46 properties have been immobilized, including several luxury apartments, 27 vehicles and assets that exceed $14 million dollars,” said prosecutor Rodolfo Delgado in his X account.

This is the list of those arrested:

1. Rolando Alexander Henríquez (President of Cosavi)
2. Jacqueline Jazmín Jorge de Hernández (Member of the Surveillance Board)
3. María Isabel Jiménez Hernández (Substitute of the supervisory board)
4. Xiomara Guadalupe Gómez Raymundo
5. Manuel Alonso Gómez Raymundo
6. Saúl Orlando Méndez Manzano
7. Luis Luciano Orellana
8. René Alexander González Melgar
9. Juan Carlos Hernández Panamanian
10. Elsa Estela Escobar Urquilla
11. Oscar Armando Munguía Vásquez
12. Carlos Alberto Cuellar
13. Manuel Alberto Coto Franco
14. Cerbelia Fidencia Barrientos de Coto
15. Edson Valdomiro Coreas Ávalos

Delgado also said that “for the moment” these people have been captured, but that investigations continue and there could be new arrests.

The Attorney General’s Office indicated last night that COSAVI is being intervened by signs of fraud against the public economy, money and asset laundering, and special cases of money and asset laundering.

At a press conference last night, Delgado announced that the measure seeks to protect the associates’ money, and explained that the investigation has been going on for months. He advanced that To date, 32 people have been prosecuted, including eight executives of the Cooperative.

“What we have detected is that senior executives of that financial entity were the ones who sent an amount of approximately $35 million that was stolen at different times from the assets of the Cooperative, all of this to the detriment of the members,” the prosecutor said.

At the time of the intervention, COSAVI was in the process of becoming a cooperative bank before the SSF. However, the authorities discovered that they were taking money from savers to the United States and Germany.

Delgado shared images on his X account with some of the properties seized after the investigations.