Virginia Messi
08/23/2021 11:12 AM
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 08/23/2021 11:12 AM
On December 18, 2017, the Federal Justice of Tucumán sentenced the brothers Rubén "La Chancha" Ale (60) and Ángel "El Mono" Ale (65) to 10 years in prison.
He considered them heads of an illicit association that laundered millions of pesos obtained from usury, extortion, economic exploitation of the exercise of prostitution and the drug trade.
It was an important ruling for Tucumán that came after a year of oral debate and another five of investigation.
However, it had a bittersweet side: those accused of leading the most powerful criminal clan in the province
were little and nothing in jail
.
And the verdict didn't change that much.
At the end of 2020, "La Chancha" was granted parole after two-thirds of the sentence had been served.
As appropriate, he was counted all the time that he was in "preventive detention" even though it was carried out in a hospital or in the living room of his house.
Now it was the turn of the benefit to his older brother, Adolfo Ángel.
In a four-page resolution, signed last Friday, the Federal Court of Tucumán granted him his release.
"El Mono"
spent the weekend without an electronic anklet and no restrictions
to move around his city.
Rubén "Chancha" Ale, convicted in 2017. Archive
According to judicial calculations, Ángel Ale met the deadlines established by law on August 14.
Like "La Chancha" at the time, mathematically he already had conditional release and, therefore, the prosecutor Pablo Camuña had no arguments to oppose it being granted.
Of course, "El Mono"
did not get out of jail
, simply because he had not been in one for a long time.
After being imprisoned in 2016 and 2017, he achieved various benefits and restraints thanks to the fact that the Federal Penitentiary Service (SPF) described him as
"
exemplary 10 without disciplinary offenses
.
"
Until Friday he was under house arrest, controlled with an electronic ankle brace.
As is routine in these cases, "El Mono" must appear periodically in court and follow some rules of conduct.
But
both he and his brother are going for more
.
First they unified their defense in a single lawyer, Ricardo Fanlo, and then they decided to appeal the sentence to the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.
That is the only judicial instance left to them after last July 18, Chamber II of the Federal Criminal Cassation Chamber confirmed the sentence.
Their main argument: that the two confidential witnesses who testified against them at trial are not credible.
"And if the federal appeal to the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation does not succeed,
we will continue to claim internationally
: we will go to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights with a view to the case being taken by the Inter-American Court," said Fanlo.
What's left
The investigation against "El Mono" and "La Chancha" was an important cause,
unprecedented in the province
.
Although some 90 trials were brought against them over the years, never before had a conviction been reached.
And over the decades, the Ale did nothing but strengthen their influence.
Rubén, to give an example, went from being a barrabrava from San Martín de Tucumán to presiding over the club.
But the sentence came to them and just a few weeks ago, Cassation confirmed it.
Judges Alejandro Slokar, Carlos Mahiques and Guillermo Yacobucci agreed with the prosecutors Pablo Camuña and Agustin Chit and the prosecutors for the Financial Information Unit (UIF), Martín Olari Ugrotte and Gabriel Merola in their appeal.
They confirmed the entire ruling, but also added a strawberry to the cake: they revoked the acquittal of Oscar Roberto Dilascio (54), a former soccer player linked to the San Martín de Tucumán club, an entity that the Ale controlled.
The trial against Clan Ale was made in 2007. Photo LA GACETA / ALEJANDRA CASAS CAU.
Through the company "La Gerenciadora del Norte", Dilascio, a man closely linked to Rubén Ale, would have participated in money laundering using the sale of footballers and also groups as a method, a business that was credited with documents.
He had released, but Cassation completely reversed his procedural situation.
The ruling of Chamber II says, almost at the end: "
Annul operative point XV of the contested sentence as soon as it acquitted Roberto Oscar Dilascio, set aside the intervening magistrates and refer the case to its origin so that, by whom appropriate, a new pronouncement is issued in accordance with the law
".
In simpler words: judges Slokar, Mahiques and Yacobucci decided to convict Dilascio and that this be done by a different court than the one that acquitted him four years ago.
EMJ
Look also
Clan Ale: confirmed all convictions and revoked the acquittal of a former footballer
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