Judge Servini will investigate the complaints against Milei for fraud

The Federal Chamber raffled on Monday the first complaint against the president Javier Milei In the case of the alleged scam With the cryptocurrency $ libra and touched the judge María Romilda Servini. The prosecutor will be Eduardo Taiano.

The drawn complaint was presented by the economist Claudio Lozanohead of the Popular Unity Party, and other leaders who accused Milei of having integrated an «illegal association» that committed a «megaestafa» by simultaneously affecting «more than 40,000 people with losses of more than 4,000 million dollars.»

By disposal of the camera, the draw was made with a manual bolillero. The goal was to avoid any suspicion. In court they believe that the traditional ballle lends less to malicious suspicions than the electronic raffle method that the camera has used for years.

The judges whose court numbers were in the Bolillero were, in addition to Servini, Sebastián Casanello, Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi, Julián Ercolini, María Eugenia Capuchetti and Ariel Lijo.

The other criminal complaints on the same issue will accumulate that today was assigned to Servini.

For now, on the weekend the complaint of a man named Miguel Ángel Heredia for the same facts. Police turned her to the court on duty, in charge of the judge Sebastián Casanello (and with intervention by prosecutor Guillermo Marijuan). But they will not keep the cause. To avoid him Forum Shopping (A trap to choose the judge), when a court receives a complaint for being on duty, he sends it to the draw. Therefore, today the Federal Chamber also received this file.

Lozano’s complaint also carries the signatures of Jonatan BaldiviezoLawyer of the Observatory of the City; Marcos Zelaya -Other lawyer specialist in new technologies-, and María Eva Koutsovitisan engineer who founded the movement the city is the ones who inhabit it. They argued that the president participated in «the largest megaestafo in history in this area», which was carried out «through an operation known as Rugpullwhich occurs when developers behind a project launch a token and attract investors to increase their value, then withdraw abruptly and take the money. ”

“When the scammers empty the liquidity funds, the price of cryptoactive falls to zero and investors lose the opportunity to exchange Tokens by Tokens More stable or legal tender, ”said the four complainants when describing the operation, which occurred after the promotion made by Milei to $ Libra in their social networks.

In the brief, the complainants asked the judicial authorities to adopt “precautionary measures of evidence”, among which they listed a “search of the Fifth of olive trees and of the Presidency of the Nation in order to kidnap all electronic equipment (computer, telephones, tablets, laptops) ”; and that «identify and allane the domicile of the denounced and the companies involved.»

They also asked that an “intervention and expertise to the X platform In order to guard the content of President Javier Milei’s account @Jmilei and of the other people denounced, including the records of the Deleted tweets”; a «blockade to virtual wallets and bank accounts of the denounced»; and measures of «traceability of the transactions of the token $ libra in order to identify the beneficiaries of the scam.»