The criminal prosecutor of La Plata, Betina Lacki, requested the preventive detention of Julio “Chocolate” Rigauthe pointer of the PJ who was caught red-handed taking money from an ATM on September 9 with bank cards of employees of the Legislature of the province of Buenos Aires.
Before the criminal judge, Guillermo Atencio claimed to convert the arrest into detention as the author of multiple scams, following the use of the cards of 48 employees of the Legislature to make money withdrawals. Rigau was caught on September 9 at an ATM at a bank in the center of La Plata, making withdrawals.
A homeless man saw strange maneuvers by “Chocolate” making several bank withdrawals, and called the police who arrested him when they arrived at the scene. Among the belongings that the Police seized was his cell phone, which was examined and contacts with the world of politics are now known.
One of those messages is from last August between “Chocolate” and a certain “Facu”, who is supposed to be the councilor of La Plata, Facundo Albinifrom the Frente Renovador and the other his father, Claudio, who was deputy head in the Personnel Directorate of the Chamber of Deputies of the province of Buenos Aires.
From the dialogues it emerges that Rigau charged 200,000 pesos per month for withdrawing money from ATMs. «You take 200 a month for 3 years and when I need you you are not there. I feel that you are disrespecting me and the friendship we have and I don’t want to end badly with you,” the contact “Facu” complained to the detainee on August 27.
Furthermore, according to the report, on September 5, Rigau sent Albini a photo of a receipt for bank transactions. According to the case, that same receipt was in the possession of the leader the day he was detained at a Banco Provincia headquarters with the 49 debit cards.
“The exchange of messages shows the amount obtained by Rigau as consideration for his contribution to the association and the temporal framework of the same, which adapts, in general terms, to that supported by the fiscal hypothesis described in the illicit materiality.” , considered prosecutor Betina Lacki.
