Overview
- Police found Guillermo Bellingi dead in Villa Elisa with a stab wound to the lower chest and a knife at the scene, and investigators are treating the case as a possible suicide based on wound angle and the absence of defensive injuries.
- An autopsy and further forensic tests remain pending and will guide both the cause‑of‑death ruling and any immediate criminal inquiries.
- Bellingi was a principal defendant in the probe of the Procuración’s 2013 purchase of the Petit Hotel at Perón 667, and he was due to face an oral trial with former Procuradora Alejandra Gils Carbó in about 20 days.
- The judicial file alleges the 2013 tender was steered to benefit intermediaries, citing contracts signed before the winner was publicly named, payment of a 3 million peso commission to Bellingi’s half‑brother Juan Carlos Thill, and a purchase price recorded at 43,850,000 pesos.
- The case was instructed by Judge Julián Ercolini and assigned to Tribunal Oral Federal Nº8 with prosecutor Marcelo Colombo, and courts must now issue procedural decisions on how Bellingi’s death affects scheduling and evidence presentation.