The State Property Administration Agency (AABE) reported on Wednesday that the auction of the property where the brothel “Black on 20” in the city of La Banda, in Santiago del Estero, scheduled for Thursday, was extended to March 25.
In a dialogue with Télam, Germán Villano, AABE’s director of legal affairs, explained that “as unfortunately there were no entries in the auction, the term will be extended until March 11, in order to grant more time so that eventual interested parties can enroll”.
“We made the extension to have greater diffusion and participation,” he explained.
The AABE seized the property from 1,240 square meters located in an urban area close to the provincial capital and it is valued at 26.4 million pesos by order of the federal Justice after a conviction for a case of trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
In August 2014, the Oral Criminal Court of Santiago del Estero sentenced five years in prison for José Luis Lunathe main accused, and two other men received the sentence of three years each.
the three were accused of capturing, transferring and sexually exploiting a young woman from Misiones during January 2012 in the nightclub “Negro el 20”, located at a point with good access to the provincial routes that connect Santiago del Estero with Córdoba and the north of Argentina.
The case was started by victim’s complaintwho reported that she was deceived through a false job offer and taken to the city of La Banda, where she was forced to prostitute herself on the premises.
In addition, he said that when he got there, where he went beatenthey didn’t let her “see even the sun”, the controlled all the time and it was violated four or five times among four people, who told her that they had subjected her “so that she would learn because she was there to obey“.
The victim explained to the court that there were other women from the province of Santa Fe in the brothel, “but they couldn’t speak“.
The joint work of the AABE, chaired by Martín Cosentino, the Human Trafficking and Exploitation Prosecutor’s Office (Protex), the Nation’s Ministry of Justice and the General Directorate of Assets and Asset Forfeiture of the Nation’s General Prosecutor’s Office, aimed at provide transparency in the administration of funds and the effective destination of trafficking victims.
The public auction will be virtual and once it is finished, the AABE will transfer the total proceeds to the Fund for Direct Assistance to Victims of Trafficking to financially compensate the victims.
“This type of reparation seeks help to overcome the situation of vulnerability of the victims through the generation of real possibilities of progress and social stability, thus avoiding revictimization,” the Agency said in a statement.
The opening of the auction will be on March 25 at 2:00 p.m.
