This week we started documenting Leonardo Cositorto’s travels throughout Colombia.
Talking to Colombian radio station W Radio simply over per week in the past, Cositorto maintains he’s in Colombia legally.
Cositorto is founding father of the collapsed Technology Zoe Ponzi scheme.
He purportedly has an Interpol crimson discover out on him from Argentina, making his free journey throughout Colombia all of the weirder.
Somewhat than acknowledge he’s wished for fraud, Cositorto (proper) attributes Argentina’s warrant to “political persecution”.
He went on to inform W Radio;
I’ve already clarified that on many events, I cannot transfer ahead till the decision in second occasion that was requested for the request for freedom for my particular person is resolved, this to have the ability to current myself, along with the second I’ve not been subpoenaed.
I can journey with none drawback, that was a request from the prosecutor who’s conscious of the case and has a little bit of a heavy hand, however at that second I’m approaching cities in Colombia as a result of the issue right here is political, as a result of they took some images of me from a political act.
Argentinian authorities started the Technology Zoe crackdown in mid February. Cositorto was noticed shilling for a Colombian senate hopeful virtually a month later.
In case it wasn’t clear, Cositorto claims Argentinian authorities are persecuting him for political acts he hadn’t dedicated on the time.
When particularly requested about his Ponzi scamming, Costitorto said he’d achieved “extraordinary outcomes”.
Should you’re questioning how Cositorto evaded seize, he did so by way of inside assist.
On March ninth Argentine authorities arrested First Corporal Guillermo Ardiles.
Ardiles, a Federal Police officer since 2014, has been charged with aggravated concealment.
Prosecutors allege Ardiles leaked delicate data to Technology Zoe leaders previous to final month’s raids.
Two different law enforcement officials have been arrested in connection to Technology Zoe. One among them, arrested on February twenty third, was launched on March 18th.
Officer Juliana Bollea maintains she is a sufferer of the Ponzi scheme. An investigation into her involvement revealed social media posts made “in direction of the top of 2021”.
Within the posts Bollea confirmed off a brand new Fiat Cronos buy, attributing the acquisition to and thanking Technology Zoe.
Argentine Prosecutors are additionally looking for the arrest of Hector Luis Yrimia.
Yrimia was Technology Zoe’s authorized adviser. He’s wished on monetary fraud prices associated to the Ponzi scheme.
Information of Yrimia’s arrest warrant dropped on Thursday and was accompanied by extra raids.
Argentine authorities raided Yrimia’s legislation places of work, in addition to these of Norman Prospero.
Prospero labored as Technology Zoe’s CFO and was arrested final month.
Prosecutors imagine Yrimia has fled Argentina late final 12 months after being tipped off. Like Cositorto, he’s now a fugitive on the run.
A 3rd raid was carried out on a home belonging to the daughter of Maximilano Batista.
The raid led to seizure of computer systems, telephones, money and a Mercedes-Benz.
Batista is seen as second in charge of Technology Zoe, below Cositorto.
There appears to have been some confusion as to his standing. Again in mid February Cositorto was believed to be one among two Technology Zoe executives arrested – therefore the byline for the picture above.
Seems Batista additionally fled overseas. After his daughter’s home was raided, Batista, by way of his lawyer, has introduced he’ll return to Argentina to face justice.
Batista’s lawyer claims his daughter
doesn’t even know what Zoe is.
I don’t know why they raided her. She bought the fright of her life they usually handled her fairly badly.
Batista is anticipated to reach in Argentina on Monday March twenty first.
Twelve Technology Zoe scammers have been arrested in Argentina up to now, with that quantity count on to rise over the approaching weeks.
On March seventeenth a federal choose approved ten extra raids in Argentina.
The choose ordered the seizure of all accounting and company books of firms linked to Technology Zoe and of “all of the contracts that they’ve signed”, along with computer systems which can be within the houses.
The raids ordered within the metropolis of Buenos Aires and Buenos Aires localities search to “deepen the investigation into the origin of the funds that made the exponential development of Technology Zoe doable.
The creation of firms by way of which hundreds of thousands had been moved by way of can also be being investigated.
Between March and November 2021, 14 industrial firms had been created, a few of them on the identical day.
Amongst these are “Prioli Construcciones SA”, “Generación Zoe SA”, “Universidad del Buying and selling SA”, and “Zoe Construcciones SA”, included on March 18, 2021.
Actions of greater than seven million {dollars} had been detected in digital wallets, although lots of the firms didn’t register industrial actions.
Whereas on the run, Cositorto has launched Technology Zoe’s successor, Dawn Coach.
Cositorto claims Dawn Coach has signed up 40,000 buyers at $2000 a pop. This declare has not been verified.
He maintains Technology Zoe collapsed as a consequence of “issues, bribes and individuals who invented issues”.
Replace twenty second March 2022 – Maximilano Batista has been arrested upon arriving in Argentina.
Leonardo Cositorto stays at massive in Colombia.