After several months of investigation and several complaints filed, this Thursday Romina Celeste Papasso was sentenced to two years and one month in prison.
Prosecutor Sandra Fleitas achieved a abbreviated agreement with Papasso’s defense to achieve a single conviction for all crimes and the cases in which Papasso appeared as a defendant.
Besides the False complaint against candidate Yamandú Orsifor which she was already charged and ended up being convicted, this Thursday she was convicted for four more cases, one linked to the former nationalist senator Gustavo Penadesanother to the journalist Ignacio “Nacho” Alvareza third related cwhere prosecutor Rodrigo Morosoli and a last one for a tweet in which he asked to place a bomb at a demonstration in Buenos Aires.
Condemnation for dissemination of intimate video of Nacho Álvarez
Prosecutor Sandra Fleitas reported that journalist Ignacio Álvarez had reported that Romina Celeste Papasso had made several defamatory publications against him on social networks, damaging his honor, in addition to having again disclosed, without consent, the intimate video in which Álvarez appears and which had been made public several years ago.
Following a request from Fleitas, the Cybercrime unit of the Ministry of the Interior confirmed that the video had been uploaded again to the social networks Tik-tok and X by her. For these facts, the prosecutor requested that she be sentenced for the crimes of private violence, defamation and dissemination of a video with intimate contentsomething that was agreed upon in the abbreviated process.
Sebastián Mauvezín sentenced for falsifying a chat room arranging a sexual encounter between a minor and Gustavo Penadés
The prosecutor for Sexual Crimes, Alicia Ghione, who is in charge of the case against the former nationalist senator Gustavo Penadés for crimes of sexual abuse and exploitation, sent a letter to the prosecutor of the Court, Juan Gómez, in which she reported that in a statement by Romina Celeste Papasso there were facts of criminal appearance. What were they? Papasso confirmed that he had falsified a chat between Sebastián Mauvezín, the History teacher who acted as a link between Penadés and his victims. The chat in question referred to a 14-year-old teenager nicknamed “Benja”.
In that chat, which was proven to be false, the person who claimed to be Mauvezín agreed to meet with Penadés and the minor for a payment of $4,000.
Both Penadés and Mauvezín filed the complaint on this issue. A report from Meta, owner of Instagram, confirmed that the Instagram user It was run by Gonzalo Flores, 21 years old, and with his email he had created the user who passed himself off as MauvezínGonzalo, who is in prison for theft, said that he was not the one who created the fake profile. but because of his friendship and his “romantic relationship” with Papasso, he gave him the cell phone so that he could create an Instagram account. With the cell phone in his possession and having access to the email, Papasso created the fake Instagram account.
For this reason, she was convicted of the crimes of Simulation of crime and ideological falsification by individual.
Defamation against the prosecutor who had charged her when she spat on an inspector
In January 2023, Papasso had been arrested on the esplanade of the Montevideo City Hall after attacking a municipal inspector on the day that the president of Brazil, Lula da Silva, was present there. The prosecutor Rodrigo Morosoli, through an abbreviated process, convicted her of the crime of attack, which she served with probation.
Months later, Papasso denounced Morosoli for falsifying documents when he sentenced her, in addition to pointing out that she had not been well advised when she signed the abbreviated agreementThe complaint was investigated by prosecutor Betina Ramos and then archived.
After the filing, the prosecutor He was denounced for simulating a crime in the form of slanderShe was sentenced for this crime on Thursday.
Tweet calling for a bomb at the demonstration for the Day of Remembrance in Argentina
On March 24, 2024, Romina Celeste Papasso tweeted an image of a demonstration in Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires. That day was the National Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice in that country. Papasso posted a tweet addressing Argentine President Javier Milei and asked: “When will there be a bomb?”.
That tweet ended in an anonymous complaint filed, for which she was eventually convicted of the crime of public incitement to commit crimes.
For this reason, Papasso was already accused and in preventive detention. At the hearing, Fleitas again recounted the link that Papasso had with Paula Díazthe trans woman who reported Orsi for allegedly hitting her after a sexual encounter.
Fleitas recounted again that Papasso and Díaz knew each other previously, despite having said the opposite, that they had traveled to Buenos Aires and reviewed what both said in television interviews when they recognized that the accusation was false.
She also recounted the audios in which Papasso advised her on how to testify as well as Díaz’s responses in which he indicated that it was “capable of crying” so that they would believe him in Justice.
“They would become public figures, which would give them two advantages: one would increase their client portfolio, since both are prostitutes, and the other would be if they received twelve salaries from Orsi if he were convicted under the gender law.“, explained Fleitas about the reason why both decided to file the complaint against Orsi.
The prosecutor said that after the examination of the cell phone of both, it was possible to confirm that they formed a criminal association, in which Díaz gave her consent to file the complaint. Fleitas said that it was “due to a specific event” that broke that association, “disagreements” arose and then both decided to go on television to tell their version of the events.
For the false complaint to Orsi was convicted of criminal association, simulation of a crime in the form of slander and defamation.
