OneCoin defendants in Argentina have put up a strawman protection in a bid to keep away from conviction.
The scammers argue that as a result of they recruited 4 law enforcement officials into OneCoin, that someway absolves them of authorized legal responsibility.
As per a letter despatched to the court docket by protection counsel, arrested suspects within the case recruited 4 law enforcement officials into OneCoin.
Three invested and promoted the Ponzi scheme as a “secure funding”.
One of many recruited officers seems to be positioned comparatively excessive up in Argentinian promotion of OneCoin.
The officer got here into contact with OneCoin after he was employed as Konstantin Ignatov’s private physique guard, throughout a mid 2018 go to to Argentina.
He continued to offer safety providers for native OneCoin scammers, who held weekly occasions at a lodge.
Finally the officer turned curious, was recruited and invested $25,000.
He would go on to recruit his father and “a major variety of shut contacts and buddies” into OneCoin.
Later, once more because of his career, the officer was roped into OneCoin’s Argentinian cash laundering operations.
As a result of his safety coaching, he made million greenback transfers and deposits of cash in Onelife accounts in Argentina – underneath the authorized designation ODT Argentina – in banks in Córdoba and Buenos Aires.
Finally the banks caught on and blacklisted the officer.
The protection alleges one of many lead investigating officers is “protecting up (for) his companions”.
The protection being put forth is that the officers misplaced cash, and the case in opposition to the scammers is a retaliatory try and recoup losses.
The bodyguard officer referenced above is certainly one of two complainants that initiated the Argentinian OneCoin prison investigation.
The Complainant’s legal professional has pushed again on calls from the protection to analyze and cost the law enforcement officials concerned. He claims the police’s investigation into the matter was “impeccable”.
Prosecutors declare the protection try to “muddy the sphere”.
Personally I believe there’s two factors to be made.
The primary is that if the fourth referenced police officer is the truth is a net-winner of comparable magnitude to these arrested, then he too needs to be investigated and charged.
As with these arrested, this needs to be decided by the officer’s alleged losses subtracted from referral commissions earned.
Ditto the opposite three law enforcement officials.
The second is what law enforcement officials did or didn’t do will not be a legitimate protection within the present case.
The fourteen arrested OneCoin net-winners are on the prime of the Argentinian OneCoin promotional chain, positioned straight under fugitive Jose Gordo.
What law enforcement officials did or didn’t do doesn’t change that, or the costs introduced in opposition to them.