Gonzalo Aguiar (46) was murdered on Monday at 4 in the morning in a house in Punta del Este.
Romina Camejo (26), mother of his seven-month-old daughter, confessed to the crime.
Around this bond – which the young woman's relatives describe as “toxic” – there is much more than
power, luxuries and deception
: a family that lives in Canada and cannot travel to Uruguay due to fraud problems.
Aguiar lived in "La Maison", one of the most expensive properties (around 5 million dollars) in the El Golf neighborhood of that city.
He also owned several high-end vehicles, including a Lamborghini Huracan Evo Spyder (US$300,000) that Camejo had in his possession and the Canadian family made available to Justice.
In the middle, the unknown appears:
who will inherit "La Maison" and all the businessman's other luxury goods?
Camejo's family had explained to
Clarín
that the marriage of the girl and Aguiar was “fictitious” and that there was no record in the Civil Registry.
Hours later, it emerged that the Uruguayan businessman was married to a woman residing in Canada, with whom he has children.
In dialogue with
Clarín
, lawyer Martín Etcheverry analyzes the probabilities of who will be able to inherit Aguiar according to the Civil Code of Uruguay, and taking into account the variables of the case.
In the first scenario, Aguiar has a legitimate marriage with the woman who resides in Canada.
He did not separate from her, and therefore her marriage to Camejo is not valid.
In this hypothetical case, the assets that Aguiar leaves - intestate, that is, without wills - are divided among his descendants in the first instance (his children from Uruguay and Canada).
And what is defined as the marital portion is added, which are the rights acquired by the wife of Canada.
The wedding of Aguiar and Camejo.
She says it was his cheating and there was no legal marriage.
Instagram photo
There would be no right of succession for Camejo, unless Aguiar had left a will in which he had included her.
Although, if that were the case, she would lose her acquired rights for having killed him.
In a second scenario, Aguiar divorced his wife from Canada and remarried Camejo in Uruguay.
In that case, the assets left by Aguiar are divided among his descendants in the first instance.
And there is a conjugal portion for Camejo, which are hereditary rights that he loses after having killed him.
Etcheverry points out that if she acted in
legitimate defense,
we would have to think more carefully, and it would be debatable: “Because perhaps the civil law says “in the event that she kills her spouse.”
And if she killed him, she killed him
.
Perhaps the criminal figure does not coincide with the figures of civil law.
But he would lose his hereditary rights by killing him, otherwise we would be enabling someone to kill the person who put him in the will to keep the things.”
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The owner of one of the most exclusive mansions in Punta del Este was murdered by his ex-partner.
According to the lawyer, the right of concubinage cannot apply to Camejo either, since for there to be any type of benefit before the law, the time spent as a couple must be
equal to or greater than five years.
And, as far as is known, Camejo and Aguiar were together for only three years.
In the third scenario, Aguiar never married Camejo, his widow is the woman who resides in Canada and his heirs are her descendants.
It may happen that Camejo, if she is declared innocent, will administer the assets inherited by the son she had with Aguiar.
But if she receives a sentence, there may be loss of parental authority over the minor.
Romina Camejo upon release.
Photo: Fernando de la Orden / Special Envoy
Regarding the possibility that Aguiar's assets passed into the hands of the State due to fraud cases and the lawsuits against him for money laundering, the lawyer explains that having died everything changes.
“Criminal actions in Uruguay say that if an accused dies,
he cannot defend himself and therefore cannot be convicted
; it is a fundamental right of defense.
The criminal action is closed and does not affect anything further regarding the deceased.
It doesn't seem to me that an embargo for money laundering could apply because that is not an administrative issue, it is a criminal issue and it requires the person to be alive,” he says.
Romina Camejo, the woman accused of the crime of businessman Gonzalo Aguiar, in Punta del Este.
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He states that the criminal part in Uruguay “is liquidated and I do not know the part that inhibits the assets in Canada, it is not clear if it is a civil measure against a company or a criminal measure where there is a claim against a person.
"We would even have to see what happens with the civil actions, and follow them with the successors."
Under his analysis, the assets of Uruguay must be defended by the successors and in principle the State cannot touch anything because the accused is deceased and cannot defend himself.
It indicates that the state can keep assets in specific cases, such as the following: if the heirs do not appear;
or
if Camejo is appointed representative of the minor
and asks not to accept the inheritance and neither do Canada's children.
Punta del Este. Special Envoy
MG