Gaston Leturia
08/14/2021 4:33 PM
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 08/14/2021 4:37 PM
The data of Quimey Kaiane Gazal was published on the Interpol page on May 17, 2019, under code red and ID number 3026586, issued by the Court of Guarantees No. 2 of Azul.
She was arrested on Monday, after two years on the run.
The 25-year-old woman was part of a gang of scammers who, under the "uncle's story" mode, deceived grandparents, elderly people, with the excuse of an imminent devaluation.
Quimey fell when he was driving his car, a Ford Ka, through the streets of Monte Grande, where he lived, on his way to a shopping center. When she was detained and when the police asked for her identification, she gave a false name. That was quickly clarified and in a matter of hours she was already detained in a cell of a police station in Ituzaingó. He put in a private lawyer and
refused to testify.
The woman, mother of a child, escaped from Justice for two years.
He never left the country and moved in the area where he lived.
All the controls that since March last year were activated by the coronavirus pandemic did not intimidate her.
Nor was she afraid to encourage her entrepreneurship, which had its dissemination platform on social networks:
"Pretty Uñitas Gelificados"
, that was the name of her business dedicated to sculpting nails and other issues of feminine aesthetics.
Quimey Kaiane Gazal, arrested.
He refused to testify.
"While he was sculpting nails, he called his victims to deceive them," one of the investigators tells
Clarín
.
The gang is practically dismantled, only two fugitives remain.
The case, brought by the Functional Unit 20 of General Alvear, dependent on the Azul courts, has the title of
"illicit association and fraud"
.
The prosecutor in charge is Cristian Citterio, who has already submitted the request for elevation to trial to convict the organization.
In the letter, he details that the accused are ten: Jonatan Ezequiel Ardito Santoro (accused as leader), Roberto Gabriel Grasso, Paola Lorena Argüello, Eduardo Gastón Arroyo, Mauro Ariel Benítez (Quimey's stepbrother), Brian Nahuel Lescano, Victoria Solana Mouriño, Pablo Javier Scherem, Cristian Miguel Serrizuela and Néstor Victor Eduardo Villaverde.
The scams would have been committed, at least,
from September 2018 to April 11, 2019.
The amount of evidence is overwhelming, especially the set of calls in which the gang interacted with each other and in which the landlines of the victims to initiate the hoaxes.
Structurally, the band led by Ardito Santoro (38) had "callers" and "bajadores".
The first, could be a man or a woman, were in charge of establishing contacts with the victims, posing as children, grandchildren, nephews, deceiving them until they agreed to give the money to a person who was going to appear at their home.
There appeared the other actors of the organization, the "bajadores".
Quimey is the half-sister of another member of the organization.
Ardito Santoro, in addition, was in charge of moving the money and
among the main maneuvers was that of buying high-end cars.
In the more than 20 raids that were made since the beginning of the investigation, some 500 thousand pesos were seized, in addition to vehicles, telephones, chips, computers and dozens of notes with details of the victims.
One of the affected people made the complaint in General Alvear and it all began there.
The gang, based entirely in the suburbs, spread its networks of deception in several Buenos Aires cities (Azul, Tapalqué, Tandil, Balcarce, Tres Arroyos, Coronel Pringles) and even in other provinces, such as La Pampa, Santa Fe, Neuquén, Chubut and Río Negro.
Quimey's arrest took place on Boulevard Buenos Aires and Azcuénaga, in Monte Grande, Esteban Echeverría's district, where agents of Special Cases of the DDI La Plata located her at the wheel of her car, which they had already identified and had followed from the housing complex known as Barrio Coca-Cola, in Santamarina and Valentín Alsina.
They knew the manicurist (and scammer) was hidden there.
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