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Justice ordered operations in six banks in the framework of the investigation into "El Croata"

The focus is on security cameras and film records of the ICBC, BBVA, Ciudad, Santander, Macro and Corporativo banks. The operations are joined by others that included banks and offices of the financial company Nimbus, considered the main "cave" of the Buenos Aires city.

  • 03/11/2023 • 11:02

The Federal Justice ordered a series of operations in six banks, with the aim of obtaining images of the people who accessed the safe deposit boxes linked to the financier Ivo Rojnica, known in the financial circuit as "El Croata", presumably with foreign currency obtained in illegally. Sources linked to the cases being processed in the courts of Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi and Federico Villena indicated that the investigation focuses on security cameras and film records of the ICBC, BBVA, Ciudad, Santander, Macro and Corporativo banks. Personnel from the General Directorate of Customs (DGA) and the Argentine Federal Police (PFA) intervene in the procedures. "Justice wants to identify the people who entered and left the safe deposit boxes with black dollars," the sources indicated. The operations are in addition to those that have been carried out over the course of the week and that included banks and offices of the financial company Nimbus, considered the main "cave" of the city of Buenos Aires. In a preliminary evaluation, the head of the DGA, Guillermo Michel, had assured on Wednesday that the total of the money seized in the raids carried out within the framework of the Rojnica investigation amounted to "more than US$ 2 million." "This person known as El Croata had the cable wholesaler, which are operations or transfers abroad of black dollars that are made through compensation," he indicated. In this regard, he pointed out that in the offices of San Martín 140, where Nimbus operated, "they had a chat group managed by a person who worked for him, where he received requests every morning from people who wanted to flee dollars in banknotes abroad." "Through three companies they had in Hong Kong and five companies they had in the United States, they made the transfers, offsetting operations," he explained.