Overview
- A judicial employee was arrested earlier this month and a La Plata appeals court denied her habeas corpus request, keeping her in custody while the probe continues.
- Prosecutors allege the network paid roughly 80,000 pesos to vulnerable people and ex‑prisoners to obtain photos and 'eye scans' that were used to open accounts on Ualá, Mercado Pago and PayPal.
- Financial forensics have traced very large flows through those wallets, including a reconstructed operation exceeding AR$172 million and a police report recording credits of AR$13,574 million with a gross flow above AR$27,149 million.
- Investigators have frozen accounts and placed asset prohibitions on suspects such as Ignacio Leonel Marchioni, who is linked to earlier Sur Finanzas inquiries, while a judge declined pretrial detention for three other accused for lack of evidence.
- Federal Police and the prosecutor’s team are expanding forensic work on phones, records and seized documents as they probe possible links to clandestine online casinos and the broader misuse of Patronato de Liberados data, and victims report real harm such as lost benefits and damaged records.