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Argentina Opens Money Laundering Probe Into Pastor’s Alleged Currency Miracle

Federal prosecutor Patricio Sabadini has demanded bank and administrative records to determine whether the pastor’s peso-to-dollar miracle concealed illicit funds for the Portal del Cielo megatemple.

El pastor jorge Ledesma. En su caja de seguridad depositó pesos y, cuando fue a retirar, encontró dólares.
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El mega-templo Portal del Cielo, iglesia que fue construida, en parte, gracias a 100 mil pesos que se transformaron en 100 mil dólares por un \"milagro divino\", según aseguró el pastor evangélico Jorge Ledesma

Overview

  • The Federal Justice of Chaco launched a preliminary investigation on July 8 into Jorge Ledesma’s assets for suspected money laundering and tax evasion.
  • Prosecutor Patricio Sabadini has requested information from ARCA, the financial intelligence unit, the Municipality of Resistencia and the Chaco Infrastructure Ministry.
  • Ledesma’s account of converting 100,000 pesos into 100,000 dollars was cited as seed funding for Portal del Cielo’s construction.
  • Argentina’s strict currency controls since 2002 prohibit physical peso-to-dollar conversions, intensifying legal scrutiny of the claimed miracle.
  • Portal del Cielo, inaugurated July 5 by President Javier Milei, is the country’s largest evangelical temple and a centerpiece of Milei’s outreach to evangelical networks.