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Rosario’s Former Regional Prosecutor Patricio Serjal Gets 9 Years for Protecting Illegal Gambling

The ruling closes a public trial focused on institutional corruption tied to clandestine betting in Santa Fe.

Overview

  • The three-judge panel of Nicolás Foppiani, Facundo Becerra and Hebe Marcogliese also ordered his lifetime ban from public office.
  • Prosecutors José Luis Caterina, Marisol Fabbro and María de los Ángeles Granato had requested a 12-year sentence, but the court imposed nine.
  • Judicial employee Nelson Ugolini was sentenced to five years, and former prosecutor Gustavo Ponce Asahad had previously received three years as a cooperating defendant.
  • The case drew on testimony from gambling entrepreneur Leonardo Peiti, who admitted paying bribes and running a clandestine network.
  • Serjal was convicted of organizing an illicit association, passive bribery, falsifying public documents, failure to prosecute and misuse of services, in a probe tracing back to the 2020 City Center casino attack linked by investigators to Los Monos.