The well-known Cordovan writer Perla Suez, winner of the Rómulo Gallegos award, was charged in Córdoba for alleged
fraud by the construction company led by her husband.
Her prosecution considers her
a necessary participant
for signing contracts.
She denies it.
Prosecutor Franco Mondino, head of the 2nd Investigation Round of the Córdoba Economic and Anti-Corruption Criminal Court, charged Perla Lila Iagupski, better known in the literary world as Perla Suez, and also her partner, the architect Víctor Roberto Suez, owner of the construction company Edilicia Suez, as author in the case.
The third defendant is María Esther Guidetti, as a necessary participant, who would have
the role of sales manager of the company.
According to the newspaper La Voz, the three are accused of having defrauded
at least 40 individuals
with the sale of apartments through the Edilicia SA or Coar SRL trusts, set up for the construction of
the Citanova 1 tower
, on the block de Caseros at 800, in the macrocenter of the city of Córdoba.
Judicial sources indicated that the prosecutor set a real security (bond) of
five million pesos
each to maintain their freedom.
The writer Perla Suez, involved in complaints about real estate fraud.
The enterprise that generates this cause would have been "stopped" for several years and would have left a total of
60 victims.
At the moment there are 40
who have filed complaints.
Lawyer Esteban Yangüez Papagenadio represents the three owners of the land –a divorced couple and a military woman– who gave up the property for the construction of the tower in exchange for apartments that the Coar SRL trust should give them and never did.
The cause is labeled as
"fiduciary fraud",
according to what is established in article 173, paragraph 12, of the Argentine Penal Code.
Award and controversy in Venezuela
Perla Suez, who was born in Córdoba in 1947 but grew up in a small town in Entre Ríos, Basavilbaso, is the founder and director of the Center for the Diffusion and Research of Children's and Youth Literature and of the magazine Piedra Libre.
As a writer, she won several awards, including the Rómulo Gallegos in 2020. And she also became visible in the media for
getting involved in some controversies.
In that year, the Cordoba woman was left with the distinction that the Government of Venezuela has given since 1964 for her novel "El país del diablo", which is set in the Conquest of the Desert and which she defined as "a western from Patagonia"
.
Suez received 80,000 euros for the prize for his work, which the jury defined as a
"heartbreaking novel with magnificent poetic breath"
.
She became the second woman to win this recognition.
For this same book, Suez had already won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
literature prize in 2015 ,
awarded by the Guadalajara International Book Fair.
In 2013 she was recognized here with the National Novel Award.
Days after receiving the award in Venezuela, Suez was the focus of criticism for his statements
about Nicolás Maduro.
The statements appeared in the Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional.
They asked him what he thought of the government of that country, accused of violating human rights.
The published response was: "For me fiction is in literature, the rest is an invention of the media. I do
n't believe either on one side or the other.
I would like to see everything with my eyes and that position regarding the current government of Venezuela. What does not slip for me, because I have seen it with my own eyes,
is Trump's policy in the United States.
But there are things that are said that I do not share."
The site monitoramos.com, also Venezuelan and opposition, took that statement and put it in harsher terms.
It titled: "It slips me, the response of the writer Perla Suez when asked about
crimes against humanity in Venezuela."
The writer, at that time, had told
Clarín
that those had not been her words.
"I never said that anything slips on me," she said.
However, sources from El Nacional sent
Clarín
the audio of the interview, in which the author's statement is heard verbatim.
That year, some authors withdrew from the prize -which has a prestigious track record- considering that it was politicized.
The award was given after a
five-year hiatus
and the jury was made up of Laura Antillano (Venezuela), Vicente Battista (Argentina) and Pablo Montoya (Colombia).
When asked about his statements, Suez then said: "My field is literature and I do not share the reductionist view of those who think that participating in the Rómulo Gallegos award is supporting a government. Literature resists any friction, and it seems useless to listen
to
that The kind of arguments that try to pigeonhole us in a pen with no way out. Enough with the dark world that we have to live in".
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