The case exposes the political-piquetero network that operated for years with public resources in Chaco
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Less than 48 hours after receiving a life sentence for the murder of Cecilia Strzyzowski, the federal judiciary decided to send Emerenciano Sena and Marcela Acuña to oral trial in a money laundering case that once again exposes the political and economic network that supported the family for years in Chaco.
The decision to proceed to trial, ordered by federal judge Ricardo Mihanovich, is based on the request of prosecutor Patricio Sabadini, who considered the investigation initiated in 2023 to be concluded. According to his ruling, the couple allegedly laundered funds originating from corruption offenses, simulating social activities through their “Doctor Saúl Andrés Acuña” Foundation, an organization historically financed by the provincial government during the Peronist administrations of Jorge Capitanich. El ex gobernador Jorge Capitanich fue el padrino de su boda.
The Sena family allegedly put illicit money into circulation through maneuvers that do not correspond to their declared income or their asset situation. Investigators detected an increase in assets that is difficult to justify: Toyota Hilux pickup trucks, Mercedes Benz trucks, trailers, motorcycles, four homes—three of them in the names of front men—and up to 66 hectares (163 acres) that were formally intended for the Foundation but ended up registered in Emerenciano's name.
During the June 2023 raid, carried out after Cecilia's murder, the Gendarmerie found six million pesos in cash inside the house where the young woman was killed. That discovery opened a second line of investigation that today leads to this money laundering case.
Cecilia Strzyzowski, asesinada por la familia Sena.
Migration records also drew attention: trips to Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, and Italy that do not match the couple's tax profile. All this while the Foundation was billing millions to the State: more than 50 million pesos in 2022 and another 186 million in 2023, especially to the Institute of Family Agriculture and Popular Economy, under Capitanich's administration.
The political dimension of the case is inescapable. Emerenciano and Acuña were provincial candidates on the ticket of the then-governor, who was even the best man at their wedding. Cecilia's murder occurred just one week before the elections, in which Peronism lost the province after years of dominance.
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Saturday's sentence already exposed the brutality of the clan: Cecilia was lured, murdered, wrapped in a carpet, incinerated, and dumped in a field to erase evidence. The popular verdict that sent César Sena and his parents to life in prison has only just begun to dismantle, by name, a political and social structure that operated for years under the protection of provincial Peronism.
The new money laundering case deepens the judicial collapse of the Sena clan and forces a review of the political network that supported them for years. With the life sentence already handed down and a federal trial underway, the judiciary is beginning to expose how a structure financed with public resources operated under the cover of provincial power.
