They stole US$500,000 from Germán Martitegui in his house and arrested a former employee

A former employee of German Martitegui She was arrested accused of having robbed him Half a million dollars in cash last April from a safe that the renowned chef and driver of TV has in his house in the Buenos Aires town of Martinezgame of San Isidropolice and judicial sources reported today.

The accused is a woman identified as Lidia Isidra Figueredo (41), of Paraguayan nationalitywho although she was arrested last Monday, was already investigated and released, because the crime for which she was charged – “aggravated robbery”– allows it.

According to the complaint that he only decided to make several days later Martiteguithe event occurred when he was traveling in USA between April 13 and 17.

During that period, in his house on the street Aristóbulo del Valle, in Martínezsome employees were left working on domestic tasks and others on construction work.

“When he returned from the trip and checked his safe, he noticed that it was missing $500,000. But they did not break the box, but rather opened it with the key, which “He had it hidden in a piece of clothing hanging in his dressing room.”a police chief who worked on the investigation explained to Télam.

The case began to be investigated by the prosecutor Gastón Garbus, from the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) decentralized Martinezand by detectives from the Departmental Investigation Delegation (DDI) of San Isidro.

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The host and jury of the program “MasterChef” He told investigators that one of the possible suspects could be Figueredo, since he constantly asked for salary advances, sometimes he was absent, and after the incident he resigned from his job.

In turn, the Prosecutor Garbus and the Buenos Aires Police They found that the accused had taken a private flight to the neighboring country of Uruguay and that her husband had traveled to Paraguay.

Furthermore, it was found that near where he lives, on the street Hudson at 4100 of the Buenos Aires town of General RodríguezFigueredo is renovating, enlarging and reconstructing a property, for which he made expensive purchases of materials.

Although on the day of his arrest he refused to testify, yesterday he asked to expand his investigation and before the prosecutor he declared himself innocent and explained that the trip to Uruguay She did it with another family she works for and who took her as a babysitter, something that now Garbus must verify.

In the raid on his home in General Rodríguez, the DDI of San Isidro did not find money in Dollars, sources confirmed.

Figueredo was charged by the prosecutor as the alleged perpetrator of “theft aggravated by the use of a real key that had been stolen, found or retained”, a crime that according to section 3. of article 163 of the Penal Code It has a sentence of 1 to 6 years in prison.

Since he has no record and since it is a releaseable crime, the Judge of Guarantees 4 of San Isidro, Esteban Eduardo Rossignolidecided to release the woman, who will continue to be subject to the process, but free.