At the meeting, the head of the General Directorate of Customs,. William Michel, provided a details of the measures carried outas well as on the evidence found and the related cases that are brought forward related to money laundering and under the criminal currency figure.
The Croatian and the Nimbus Cave
In the case, after the federal judge Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi was prohibited from leaving the country and new incriminating evidence emerged, the investigation into the links of the Croatian Ivo Esteban Rojnicaresponsible for the “largest cave” of dollars in the city of Buenos Aires.
According to sources from the General Directorate of Customs (DGA), everything indicates that Rojnica’s businesses are part of an “illegal transnational operation” based on the discovery of elements that compromise it.
“The Croatian” He was the head of the financial company Nimbus, located at San Martín 140, 19th floor, and which was raided last Wednesday night. Due to its volume of operations, researchers believe that it had an important role in the formation of the price of the “blue dollar.”
Ivo Esteban Rojnica The Croat.jpg
Raids in Buenos Aires caves
In the raids carried out last Tuesday and Wednesday, the Federal Administration of Public Revenue (AFIP), the Argentine Federal Police (PFA) and Customs found a timeline with marked arrows and the word “leap” with an “exact correlation with the days in which the parallel registered increases,” indicated sources from the customs agency.
A focus of the case is on the over-invoicing maneuvers, where the leaked currencies went to accounts in countries such as China and the United States, later returning to Argentina via the Cash with Settlement dollar (CCL), to later be sold in the ” blue”.
In the offices of Nimbus were also found handwritten spreadsheets with the registration of the sale of foreign exchange with names and nicknames of clients.
In fact, among the records who kept the “cave”, just for a client, last Friday, October 6 $61,950,000 entered and US$70,000 left; while, in another operation, $13 million entered and US$15,000 left.
It is because of these volumes of money that Customs believes that Nimbus set the pulse of the value of the blue dollar.
One of the names that appears repeatedly in the operations and that is being investigated is that of a certain “Roberto H”sources indicated.
In addition to his businesses in the city of Buenos Aires, Rojnica had expanded its operation to Paraguay and Spain, and offered as a service the opening of “offshore” accounts for its clients, in alleged partnership with the financier Federico Pulenta, one of the owners of Thesis Group SA.
In Paraguay, he appears as the owner of 40% of the firm Negocios Bursátiles Casa de Bolsa SA, established on March 11, 2014, a country in which Rojnica acquired million-dollar properties.
Rojnica He was vice president of the company and has a mortgage in his favor for several properties against a loan of half a million dollars.
agustin estrada the croat ivo
The link between “El Croata” and Agustín Estrada, the man who discriminated against the stewardess
One of the company directors is Agustín Estrada, financier whose name went viral this week after uploading a video on his Instagram social network account where, upon getting off an Aerolíneas Argentinas plane, He discriminated against a flight attendant because of her physical build.
Meanwhile, in Spain, the Croatian appears as sole administrator of Lokrum Capital SL and joint administrator together with Jonathan Rivas Fuentes in Peimento SL, both registered in 2021 and 2022 in Madrid.
The first firm appears in Spanish records as dedicated to “intermediation activities in operations with securities and other assets”, while the second aims at the “creation, development and maintenance of web portals, as well as the provision of all kinds of services auxiliaries”.
While, Rojnica used a travel agency (with the legal name Elementa SRL and the commercial name “Tower Travel”) to make profits with the “tourist” exchange rate: The sources specified that the agency was used to withdraw foreign currency from the country with the facade of said tourist exchange rate, a maneuver with which “it made a difference of 20%.”
The financier, 42 years old, also owned “financial agencies in Uruguay, Paraguay (Ciudad del Este and Asunción) and Bolivia”, and was a member of the firm Estivoral SRL, dedicated to the marketing of cold cuts, baked goods, cafeterias, bars and warehouses, and prepared to acquire franchises in Argentina and abroad.
There are also two companies in his name in the Virgin Islands (Fam Global Investments LTD and Gorlay Holdings LTD), one in Ireland (Jurgen Holding EAS), four formed in the US city of Miami (Mudart Springs LLC, Honolulu Bayside LLC, 34gradossur Investments LLC and Puentex Strategy Solutions LLC), and four others in São Paulo, Brazil (Leono Capital Securitizadora SA, Admicorp Servicios Adminsitrativos LTDA, Digital Restaurant Club Intermediacao de Negocios LTDA and Sushi UM Comercio de Foods SA).
Most of them were established between 2018 and 2021.
In Argentina, The financier simply appeared as registered with the AFIP as a category F monotributistdedicated to “hoarding, direction and management services.”
Among other items found in the offices, some of which are still awaiting expert examination, are ten computers, elastic belts, 15 money-cutting machines and destroyed documentation; accounts returns, empty bags of different sizes, suitcases, details of financial operations, sworn statements, debt contracts, transaction settlement sheets and lease contracts.
In the case of the sashes, they were used to “adhere the bills to the body”, being the same ones that were found on the three people of Chinese nationality who were detained on Wednesday in an operation in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Belgrano with more of US$700,000.
The documentation under analysis by Justice also focuses on why the Financial Information Unit (UIF) had no indication of the activities of Rojnica until this week, since far from hiding it had a high profile that should have triggered monitoring alarms.
Rojnica, 42, was married to the model Melina Cammertoni, who hosted an exclusive party for 500 guests at La Rural in November of last year that was described by Caras Magazine as “one of the most outstanding of the year”, and “a fairy tale wedding” in an article from that time.
After Customs asked Immigration on Thursday to issue an alert regarding any attempt by Rojnica to leave the country, Judge Martínez de Giorgi ordered a ban on her departure, although, so far, no order of departure has been requested. detention.
Source: Ambito
