He disappeared with $ 1,300,000 from a chain of GBA empanadas and opened a chicken shop in Tandil

04/11/2021 17:01

• Clarín.com

• Police

Updated 04/11/2021 17:01

He was a fundraiser for a chain of empanadas.

In January it disappeared with 1,300,000 pesos from twelve branches.

They searched for him for three months until they found him in Tandil, where he had opened a poultry shop.

The detainee is a 23-year-old young man, identified as Agustín Medrano, who was a fugitive since January 18, accused of having taken the collection of twelve stores from the "Sabores Express" chain.

Medrano's arrest was carried out on Friday by detectives from the Departmental Subdelegation of Investigations (sub DDI) of Pilar, with the support of the Tandil Police, according to judicial and police sources informed

Télam

.

The case began with the complaint of the owner of the empanada houses "Sabores Express", located on Pedro Lagrave street between Rivadavia and Ituzaingó, in the center of Pilar, a few meters from the bus terminal and one block from the municipality and two from the police station and prosecutors.

They arrested a scammer who took 1,300,000 pesos from a chain of empanadas and set up a chicken shop in Tandil.

The merchant said that the day before, and as was usual, Medrano had come to collect the weekly collection from the premises, about 230,000 pesos that were kept in the safe, of which he had the key because he was a trusted administrative employee. .

The problem was that later he discovered that the money had not been taken to its destination, the central offices of the firm, and when he consulted with those responsible for the other premises of the same chain where Medrano also went to collect the money, they realized noticed that

the employee had done the same in twelve branches

.

Apart from Pilar, he had also passed through the premises of San Isidro, Vicente López, San Martín and Lomas de Zamora, among others, and in all the places "it

was recorded by the security cameras

, taking the money out of the safe deposit boxes" , one of the researchers said.

A succulent loot

In total, that weekend in January, Medrano withdrew

1,300,000 pesos

from the collections and disappeared, according to the case.

The same complainant said that they went to look for him at his house and there the owner of the place told them that Medrano was a tenant and that the day before he had moved and did not tell him what his destination was.

From the complaint, the case fell to the prosecutor Andrés Quintana, from the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) No. 2 of Pilar, who immediately summoned the local Sub DDI to locate the alleged fraudster.

After working for almost three months without finding any trace of the suspect, the sub DDI agents followed a trail to Tandil, where on Friday they first raided the house of a relative, located in Miter at 1500 of that city, and then another in 14 from July to 1400, where he was arrested.

They arrested a scammer who took 1,300,000 pesos from a chain of empanadas and set up a chicken shop in Tandil.

In the raids, the Police kidnapped Medrano a Xiaomi cell phone, 9,770 pesos and the clothes he was wearing and with which he was recorded by security cameras the day he took the collections from the empanada houses.

In addition, the investigators determined that with the money from the scam, Medrano

had opened a chicken shop in Tandil

.

At the request of the prosecutor Quintana and by order of the Judge of Guarantees No. 7 of Pilar, Walter Saettone, Medrano was arrested on charges of "

fraud due to fraudulent administration

."

This crime provides a penalty of one month to six years in prison for whoever "

was in charge of the management, administration or care of property or pecuniary interests of others, and in order to procure undue profit for himself or for a third party. or to cause damage, violating their duties will harm the entrusted interests or will abusively oblige the owner of these

".

Judicial sources indicated that Medrano was investigated on Friday by the public prosecutor Quintana, but he refused to testify and continued to be detained.

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