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The Government of Santa Fe will auction off four homes seized from the Rosario gang led by drug lord Esteban Alvarado, sentenced to life imprisonment, official sources reported Tuesday.
Two of them corresponded to two police officers sentenced for their complicity with the criminal organization.
The auction, organized by the Provincial Agency for Registration, Administration and Destination of Assets and Patrimonial Rights (APRAD), will be held on July 4 at 2:00 p.m. at the Santa Fe Sports Museum, located on Ayacucho Avenue at 4800 in the city of Rosario, reported the agency.
The four properties that will go to auction were already offered in a previous auction, from 2022, but they had no bidders, they recalled from the APRAD.
In any case, they indicated that two Alvarado homes have already been auctioned, so they are confident that on this occasion those that go to the public offer can be auctioned off.
As reported by APRAD, the base with which the properties go to auction ranges from 6,365,000 to 49,384,000 pesos.
One of the houses is located on Calle Miramar, between Mar del Plata and Punta del Este, in the “Tierra de Sueños” neighborhood of the town of Funes, bordering Rosario to the west.
According to the judicial investigation into the assets and the business plot set up by Alvarado for money laundering, that house was deeded in the name of the wife of the former head of Police Intelligence, Javier Makhat, convicted in an abbreviated trial for complicity with the drug lord.
According to the investigation, the property was sold to Gustavo Ramos, Alvarado’s half-brother, for which Makhat was considered a lender to give legal visa to the drug lord’s black money.
Another property that also belonged to Makhat and his partner, located in the high-end building complex known as “Condominios del Alto II”, where the policeman lived in an apartment and had a garage.
The expenses and services of that house were in the name of Rosa Capuano, Alvarado’s ex-wife, who had also lived there, according to the court case.
Another property that will go up for auction on July 4 is a house located on Calle Bolivia at 1800 Rosario, according to what was published by APRAD.
The investigation carried out by prosecutors Matías Edery and Luis Schiappa Pietra, which led to the trial and life sentence of Alvarado for homicide, illicit association and money laundering, located that property as a property of former Dangerous Drugs policeman Gustavo Spoleti .
However, according to that investigation, the policeman was suspected of ?framing? the sale of that property for US$ 89,500 to Alvarado’s right-hand man, Jorge Benegas (also convicted), which would have allowed him to justify the acquisition of the house where he lived, in the residential neighborhood of Fisherton, in a cause of enrichment illicit.
Spoleti was not convicted of this crime, but the property remained among the assets assigned to the illicit association led by Alvarado.
The last property that will go on sale is located at 865 Misiones street in the open neighborhood “Tierra de Sueños” in the town of Roldán.
The same judicial investigation determined that this house belonged to a man named Rodrigo Ortigala, who was part of Alvarado’s gang and after a fight testified against him.
Ortigala testified that he had to sell the property to his former boss under threat, after finding out that he had a relationship with his wife, Capuano, although the house was registered in the name of Gustavo Ramos, Alvarado’s half-brother.
On August 7 of the same 2012, he transferred it by public deed to Nadia Toledo, later also accused of being part of the illicit association, and in January 2015 the woman created the company TO IA SRL together with Ricardo Ariel Ianni, who transferred the property as a contribution of capital to society, according to research.
Ianni, in turn, was convicted of transporting half a ton of marijuana from Rosario to Río Negro, a cause that a few years later allowed Alvarado to be accused and sentenced to 15 years in prison as the organizer of that shipment of narcotics.
Before, Alvarado, the narco boss who had faced the Rosario gang “Los Monos” for years, had declared the address of Misiones 865 de Roldán to obtain his driver’s license and as address before the AFIP, when registering as a monotributista.
The APRAD informed this Tuesday that they will also go up for auction in July, in addition to the properties, a group of motorcycles; automobiles; pick up; a collection car and a flatbed tow truck.
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