They arrest the mother of a Gimnasia player for leading a criminal organization

In recent hours, the preventive detention of Natalia Foresio, mother of young Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata footballer Juan Cruz Cortazzo, accused of leading a criminal organization, participating in unauthorized financial intermediation and money laundering operations, was carried out.

As a result of this and after a year of investigative work, the federal judge of La Plata, Ernesto Kreplak, ordered 17 raids in different locations in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Province, and Córdoba. In addition, the seizure of Foresio's assets was ordered, amounting to approximately 50,000 million pesos.

During the operation, in which the National Gendarmerie and ARCA participated, $199,492,700 in cash, USD 357,153, 1,090,180 Uruguayan pesos, €13,070, R$5,171, and £3,100 were seized. Two cars, 16 mobile phones, 15 laptops, a server, two tablets, 12 storage devices, three firearms, and 34 rounds of ammunition of various calibers were also confiscated.

Foresio, an accountant and mother of the Lobo footballer, was charged as "a member of a criminal organization intended to commit undetermined crimes, as leader and organizer".

She was also "charged with participating in the organization and management of a scheme of taxpayers operating as sources of fraudulent invoicing, through which the following crimes were committed: aggravated tax evasion, unauthorized financial intermediation for more than $40,000,000,000, and money laundering".

According to various sources, Foresio refused to testify before the judge, who rejected the request for house arrest. Meanwhile, the defense argued that the accountant "remained committed to her role as an accountant both in the creation of companies and in tax advice".

In addition, the lawyers emphasized that she "never willfully engaged in fraudulent invoicing. She did not have detection tools to know the external aspects of a client's exchange of goods or services or the invoice amount".