07/19/2021 7:36 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 07/19/2021 7:36 PM
Follow the novel by the luxury cars of Marcelo Balcedo, the former union priest of the Union of Workers and Employees of Education and the Minority (SOEME) who was arrested in 2018 in Uruguay and is serving a sentence in that country for "money laundering , smuggling and arms trafficking ”.
Now it was learned that
on August 10 three high-end cars of
the unionist will be auctioned again at the Radisson Montevideo Victoria Plaza Hotel, according to Uruguayan media confirmed.
Strictly speaking, the auction had
originally been held in March
.
They were four high-end cars and trucks that belonged to Marcelo Balcedo and valued
at about $ 800,000.
One of the luxury cars that belonged to the trade unionist Marcelo Balcedo.
What happened next was unexpected: a "drunk" got into the auction, made the best offers for three of the vehicles,
but in the end he didn't have the money
and ruined the auction.
Two weeks later this man died in Uruguay due to health problems.
The cars were a
Porsche Panamera
, a Porsche Boxster S, a Chevrolet Camaro, and a Land Rover Range Rover Sport 4x4.
The goal of the authorities was to raise
$ 250,000 for the four cars.
According to the chronicles of that day in late March, a man in a sports jacket bidding on the Boxster S, Camaro, Range Rover and Panamera
began to attract the attention
of those present.
The auction got dynamic but finally
this unknown person
, who never stopped talking on the phone, managed to win
three of the four auctions.
The luxury cars that belonged to the trade unionist Marcelo Balcedo and were going to be auctioned.
The unexpected came when it was time to sign the transaction and leave the mark for the three cars.
"My father is a drunk, has psychiatric problems and does not have that much money,"
revealed the daughter of this person.
Two weeks later he died of health problems.
At that time, in the neighboring country's press he was identified as "JJB" (by his initials) because his identity remained withheld
after the scandal
that occurred at the auction for Balcedo's cars and the subsequent judicial investigation.
After that failure, those interested in bidding at the auction on August 10 will have to make
a financial deposit
as a "sine qua non condition," reported the
Uruguayan
newspaper
El País
.
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Balcedo, the hidden fortune
Balcedo is syndicated by the Argentine Justice as the
"head" of "an illicit association"
accused of
diverting 500 million pesos
belonging to the SOEME union between 2012 and 2018.
Trade unionist Marcelo Balcedo, former SOEME, imprisoned in Uruguay.
For this reason, there are
ten friends and relatives of the union member
sent to trial except Balcedo, for whom his extradition from Uruguay is still awaited.
According to Clarín, what had been the "largest money seizure in history" in Uruguay - based on the Argentine investigation - was deflating over time.
First, the Uruguayan Justice benefited Balcedo and his wife
Paola Fiege
- also detained - with
house arrest in one of their mansions
.
Later, Balcedo's request for 11 years in prison was lowered to four years and 8 months in an agreement in which the union member and his wife pleaded
guilty to avoid
oral
trial
.
Fiege was sentenced to three years in prison.
The two avoided going back to jail.
In exchange, they had to
give the Uruguayan State $ 8 million
, a mansion in Maldonado and the four high-end cars from the failed auction: the Porsche Panamera, the Porsche Boxster S, the Chevrolet Camaro and a 4x4 Land Rover Range Rover Sport.
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Look also
The Uruguayan who tried to buy the luxurious cars of union member Marcelo Balcedo died
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