02/25/2021 19:12
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 02/25/2021 7:12 PM
The main suspect in the theft of Carlos Saúl Menem's gold ring has already been identified.
Now we need to locate it;
him and the jewelery.
Although the latter seems to be more difficult.
One of the three alternate nurses who assisted the late former president is identified as the author of the "disappearance" of the jewel, of high symbolic value for the family.
He is "Mauro", an employee of the Swiss Medical company who between December 6 and 15 worked at Menem's house, located in Echeverría at 3500, in Belgrano.
This was confirmed to
Clarín
by lawyer Diego Storto, who represents Zulemita Menem as plaintiff.
The big problem is that "Mauro", which is actually what they say but his name is Mauricio,
is unbearable
.
The Police still could not bring him the notification of the summons to the investigation because the address that he gave to the company where he worked was not real.
No one knows where he is and
technically he is "in absentia"
because the crime under investigation is "theft" and is not subject to prison.
His other two companions were already summoned to testify on February 26 and 27 before the National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor's Office No. 42, headed by Carlos Arturo Velarde.
"Mauro" himself was the one who reported that he had the gold ring with an onyx stone that Menem wore on his left ring finger and when he took it off he kept it in his glasses case.
On February 18, after the news appeared in the media, he told a cousin, who at the same time told another who is an agent of the Buenos Aires Police.
He wanted to know how he could go about returning it without being arrested.
Carlos Saúl Menem, with his ring.
Faced with this situation, the agent spoke with his superior.
His boss asked him for evidence and the policeman showed the chats.
The officer reconnected with his cousin.
But it was too late, he replied that the nurse
had already discarded the jewel
.
“As a complaint we are asking for measures to try to clarify the situation and for the ring to appear.
We are not interested in the conviction, which he will also receive, we are interested in the ring appearing, ”Storto told
Clarín
.
The news was known this Thursday, after the "summary secret" that had been issued by the national court in Criminal and Correctional Matters No. 17 expired.
Menem passed away on Sunday February 14 at the age of 90.
Olga Wornat, its biographer, recalled the history of the jewel more than once.
"It is the ring with the black stone that his mother gave him before she died, and that he never took off. In fact, he lost it in 1989 and Zulemita sent him to make one just like it. He has a sacred stone with magical powers that belonged to his uncle, an important man from Damascus. An Akil, the aristocratic branch of the family, "explained the journalist and writer.
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