Two men who scammed Glutal had to return the updated money and donate $1.5 million to Hospice
Two men identified as Juan Manuel Salerno and Nicolás Ercegovic, 47 and 61 years old, respectively, were convicted of defrauding a company in Esperanza dedicated to corn milling and refining.
The two men had to return all of the money they stole, considered in its updated historical value: 21,373,137.50 pesos. Furthermore, based on the social damage caused by this type of crime, they had to make a monetary contribution of 1,500,000 pesos to the La Piedad Palliative Care Association.
On the other hand, a sentence of 50 days of effective imprisonment was imposed on each of them.
The prosecutor who was in charge of the investigation is Alejandro Benítez, who works in the Esperanza Prosecutorial Unit of the Regional Prosecutor’s Office 1. As reported, “with this sentence of effective compliance, in the event that Salerno and Ercegovic commit crimes again, they will not “They may receive sentences of conditional execution.”
The sentence was ordered by Judge Martín Torres, in a trial hearing in which the procedures that took place yesterday in the courts of the city of Santa Fe were abbreviated.
Agreed purchases
Benítez indicated that “between Tuesday, July 4 and 11 of last year, the convicted persons committed three illegal acts to the detriment of the same company.” In this sense, he highlighted that “roles were distributed to illegitimately seize assets that were offered for sale.”
“On the first two occasions, Salerno presented himself to company employees with the same fictitious name and the last time he used a different one,” the prosecutor said. “In all cases, he communicated first from a telephone line that he owns and then through emails with references to false identities,” he said.
The prosecutor Alejandro Benítez who promoted the investigation The MPA official explained that “the 47-year-old convicted man asked the company for several budgets and agreed on purchases of corn starch,” and specified that “in total, he agreed to the acquisition of 1,087 bags of 25 kilograms.”
“For his part, Ercegovic was in charge of withdrawing the products on the first two occasions in which the Esperanza firm was defrauded,” said Benítez. “He pretended to be another man, loaded the bags onto a truck and paid with deferred payment checks that he knew the company would not be able to collect,” he said. “In this context, he signed receipts with illegible handwriting,” he added.
Regarding the third request, the prosecutor stated that “to achieve their criminal objective, the convicts used a carrier as an instrument to whom they gave other bad checks to deliver to the supplier in exchange for the ordered merchandise.” Meanwhile, he noted that “Ercegovic later removed the bags of corn starch from the place where the intermediary had taken them.”
Cheques
Benítez explained that “the checks with which the convicts defrauded the starch producing company had been issued by different banking entities,” and clarified that “they could not be cashed for different reasons.”
“Some of the titles were rejected because the banks had orders not to pay, given that there had been reports of loss or police charges involved,” he pointed out. “In other cases, the problem lay in the bank accounts from which the balances were to be debited, since at the time of the criminal acts they were without funds or had been closed,” he concluded.
Scam and fraud
At the hearing in which the sentences were resolved, Salerno and Ercegovic expressly recognized their criminal responsibility as co-authors of fraud and fraud. Together with their Defense, they accepted the criminal classification proposed by the Prosecutor’s Office, the amount of the penalties imposed and the decision to shorten the trial procedures.
2024-03-14 10:22:43
#men #scammed #Glutal #return #updated #money #donate #million #Hospice
