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Bariloche Ashram Shambala Case Adds Two Defendants as Court Upholds Jail for Alleged Leader

Forensic review of seized devices helped prosecutors tie the two women to a network accused of trafficking for sexual exploitation.

Konstantin Rudnev el líder de la secta al quedar detenido en Bariloche.
El allanamiento de la PFA Bariloche conmocionada por la secta de trata de las mujeres rusas: 14 detenidos.
Crimen y justicia: el caso de la secta de Montenegro en Bariloche ya tiene 23 imputados. (Gentileza)

Overview

  • Prosecutor Fernando Arrigo formalized charges against two Russian women identified as D.Z. and N.P., bringing the case to 23 defendants.
  • Judge Gustavo Zapata maintained passport seizures and a travel ban for the newly charged pair while they remain free during the investigation.
  • The Federal Appeals Court in General Roca revoked previously granted house arrest for Konstantin Rudnev, who remains in preventive detention at Federal Prison Unit 6 in Rawson.
  • DATIP analysis of audios, messages, photos and videos from seized phones and computers connected the new defendants to the group’s operations under a supposed yoga-based spiritual front.
  • The probe, triggered by a Bariloche hospital’s alert over a controlled pregnant patient and an alleged attempt to alter the newborn’s record, now has an extended deadline to April 3 for further evidence work.