Se desvela la estafa piramidal del Consorcio de Caballeros en San Pedro, con el arresto de sus miembros y la congelación de sus activos. La organización, que promovía la compra y venta de falsas criptomonedas, fue registrada a finales de octubre 2023. Las autoridades piden paciencia a las víctimas mientras se liberan los fondos congelados.
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00:00The pyramid scam of San Pedro is about to crumble. Today we are going to tell you how it was the origin of the Consortio de Caballeros.
00:10The page that serves to give veracity to the Consortium of Caballeros was registered at the end of October 2023, as it appears in this record to which America News had access.
00:25For its part, the Telegram group that was used to promote the purchase and sale of fake cryptocurrencies was created a few days after the registration of the page.com of the Consortium of Caballeros.
00:37Luis Pardo is one of the few people who defended this consortium from the first moment.
00:44Good afternoon friends, those who made the withdrawal and are still frozen, they have not arrived yet, that answers me the technical service,
00:50have patience that they will be released little by little, some are already arriving now through the currency, others will surely arrive later,
00:57and if they do not arrive for the 22 hours after the currency event, I will claim it one by one, not the technical service as we have been doing this week.
01:07I tell you this because it is reaching national media, they are naming me, they are defaming me,
01:14that is, there is no pyramid scam here, you manage your accounts, you can do whatever you want, you can withdraw whenever you want, I do not force you to anything,
01:21the only thing I tell you is that I have nothing to do with this, I am not the owner of the application, the only thing I did was open a group because they did not want to integrate a friend.
01:30Those who do not trust me sincerely, those who do not believe in the application, I can sincerely withdraw, there were funds withdrawals,
01:37well, we are solving it, people are withdrawing their money.
01:40In another audio, you can hear Pardo confessing that he was the one who brought the system to the country to become a millionaire overnight.
01:50Look, I'm going to tell you like this, so that you know who I'm talking to.
01:55I grew up alone, do you understand? I have been living alone since I was 19 years old. Do you know where I grew up? In Hermano Indio.
02:04Do you know where I worked since I was 19 years old and finished technical school? In Papel Prensa. Do you understand me?
02:11I stayed alone, do you understand me? I brought this to Argentina and I am saving the lives of many people.
02:18When you do something or want to sit in front of me or discuss something, tell me, do you understand me?
02:25But people are very abusive because they don't donate. Do you understand me?
02:29Show me a proof that you donated something for a dining room. Show me, show me a proof that you donated something for a dining room.
02:36Let's see, to stand in front of me.
02:39But Pardo's relationship with this consortium of gentlemen would have begun just a month after the registration of the website and the creation of the Telegram group.
02:50But this was not the first time that Luis Pardo is news. Some time ago he was arrested for a gender-based violence complaint.
02:58In San Pedro, everyone talks about a possible link between Pardo and the local mayor.
03:03A civil servant who mysteriously gave few answers on the subject of the pyramid scam.
03:09Meanwhile, justice investigates if everything ends in Pardo or if there is an international organization behind this pyramid scam.
03:19And Luis Pardo is just one of the two detainees detained during this day after raids in San Pedro.
03:30And we are working live in the place where they are staying now.
03:34Javi Mosso, what is known about these arrests?
03:397 and 10 in the afternoon, a few seconds passed, a few seconds of that time and they are still here.
03:47We remember, Lu, that they were arrested this morning there in the town of San Pedro.
03:54About 170 kilometers north of the federal capital, the province of Buenos Aires, still at the border with Santa Fe.
04:02Very well, they were walking around there, they entered the central palace of the Federal Police, this building dating from 1888.
04:11They entered there, they passed through the patio of Las Palmeras and in this place they are staying at least until the police itself arranges their transfer.
04:24Surely to one of the headquarters on Calle Cavia or to the headquarters on Calle Madariaga.
04:30They could spend the night here.
04:32Exactly, they can spend the night here, but since the conditions are not so good in terms of accommodation,
04:42they can also be transferred to one of the two dependencies that we said before.
04:48One is in the northern area of the federal capital, on Calle Cavia, very close to an important shopping center.
04:54And the other in the southern area, in the area of Villalugano, on Calle Madariaga and General Paz, to be more exact.
05:01So they were transferred, as we said, at noon, very strong custody of the Federal Police, in different cars that brought them.
05:11They entered through this central door, this is the main door of this building, here on Moreno Street at 1500.
05:19And we will have to see what justice has in terms of the number of days they will be detained.
05:25Surely, as we talked about before, with the lawyer Adolfo Suarez,
05:32surely they will have to answer many questions that justice will ask them in the next few days.
05:40Let's listen to one of the testimonies of one of the people, in this case interviewed by you.
05:45One of the victims, a young man who put a motorcycle, $ 1,000 to try to get $ 2,000.
05:52At this time he is not withdrawing anything at all because the platform is closed. Testimony.
05:57I got in through some friends who explained to me how it worked.
06:03And I saw that he was doing well and he wanted me to do well too.
06:07And well, nowadays I can't operate.
06:10And now the platform has fallen, I can't get in anymore.
06:14But my hope was to duplicate my capital and well, I duplicated it, but I could never withdraw anything.
06:21There are no death threats, but are they threatening you on some social networks?
06:25Yes, of course, they were threatening me on Telegram, my friends told me.
06:30They told me why I got in, why I'm here.
06:34And I think they are also blaming me that this has fallen because I can no longer enter.
06:39And I don't know if anyone else can enter.
06:41We had 10 people to declare on Friday.
06:46What happens is that it takes two hours per person.
06:50Let's remember that it is a town prosecutor's office.
06:53Here what has to be taken into account is that San Nicolás would have to centralize with a thematized prosecutor's office from our point of view
07:00or unify with the federal to be there for a long time.
07:06On Monday I will meet with the prosecutor of Ilelo to coordinate joint activities.
07:11Why? Because only on Wednesday we have cited the rest of the people who are going to denounce.
07:17What I say is, a 308, incisive fifth, informative testimony for Mr. Pardo
07:24so that he comes to give explanations on what character he stands as an administrator, as a party, as what.
07:31Well, so far the word of this testimony that you gathered there in San Pedro as the lawyer.
07:40What other things can you tell us about what you talked about with the victims and with the people in general?
07:46Because we know that there is a tension, on the one hand those who denounce and on the other hand those who defend this organization.
07:54And that difference is very marked.
08:01The people who have charged, who have received a percentage, who have obtained profits,
08:07obviously they are totally in favor of the continuity of all this.
08:14And I believe that the key, guys, is going to be when the 14 skillful days arrive.
08:21That is going to be the day or the key date to see what happens.
08:26And to see if, in case people have that bad luck of not receiving the money,
08:32I imagine they are going to start talking a lot and that they want in one way or another,
08:39at least their capital, let's discount the interests, at least their capital is returned.
08:46But of course, of course, totally.
08:49What the lawyer told us today, a collection of 15 million dollars weekly at the beginning when this was supposedly successful.
08:56It is abysmal. It is abysmal. The business, the business, the business, the business of a few is abysmal.
09:04We remember that there are people who have put a lot of money, it is to surprise us permanently
09:11because of what one is listening to, because of what one is finding out.
09:15Elements that even a farmer told us today.
09:20You mentioned a field, right?
09:22People, houses.
09:23Of course, because it is the heart.
09:24Exactly.
09:25Let's remember that San Pedro, you were there.
09:27It is part of the productive heart of the province of Buenos Aires in terms of agriculture.
09:32Exactly.
09:33Integrating the wetland is where exactly a lot of people who are engaged in agricultural and livestock activity,
09:41a lot of companies related to that, many fertile fields with lands, the truth is that very important.
09:48And in terms of costs, very important, the value of an hectare there in that area is immense.
09:55It is very, very, very many thousands of dollars.
09:58So, people who, from good to bad, have seen the possibility of making money very easily,
10:04investing for them in this quasi-pseudo currency,
10:09which the lawyer told us was handled almost in parallel with the peso.
10:13Exactly.
10:14In other words, one could make purchases, one could make investments with this currency
10:19as if one were with pesos, in a very deliberate way.
10:24Well, the truth is that what we have been able to see, and in terms of your question, Lu,
10:28is that the differences are very marked.
10:31People who are very in favor, people who are very against.
10:34In the medium, there are no grays.
10:36Clearly, there are no grays, as there are usually in other cases.
10:40In this opportunity, nothing, nothing gray.
10:43Yes, simply blame, to a large extent, perhaps, the media that have made known,
10:49unfortunately for them, this, but that in some way was going to explode.