A group of more than 100 savers who claim to have been harmed by the scam that occurred in the stock brokerage Custodia de Valores Mobiliarios (CVM) will promote an investigation in the United States of the investment bank Jeffries, said their lawyer, Pablo Donnángelo, to The Observer. The Donnángelo-Durán-Sasson study asked to seize all accounts in the United States of corporations owned by Sara Goldring and her children. Judge María Helena Mainard authorized it, for a value of US$ 20 million.
“We understand that after the discovery of financial assets of around US$ 20 million in accounts at Jefferies bank in New York – the vast majority were found in accounts of Panamanian companies owned by Goldring – there are sufficient reasons to investigate what has been the role of Jefferies on these facts,” Donnángelo said.
The firm, which has Baker & Hostetler as its New York correspondent, is working to examine the civil and criminal liability of the investment bank. Jefferies is supervised by the United States Security Exchange Commission and therefore must comply with a series of obligations. Savers understand that the investigation should determine what was the role of the bank in the chain of controls and who was the final beneficiary of those operations.
“Jefferies can become a key piece in clarifying the facts and if in any way he contributed to what happened, he will have to answer to the Justice. There are people from Jefferies who are already individualized and it would be good if they cooperate with the investigation. investigation”, developed the lawyer.
The embargo of the accounts
The Judge María Elena Mainard ordered block the embargo regarding the money and values that are deposited in the individual accounts, of the companies, and all the actionsof the Goldring-Cukier family in the United States, according to the resolution to which he agreed The Observer.
It was possible to detect the financial assets abroad, which were in the North American investment bank Jeffries. The money belonged to companies, the vast majority of which belonged to jurisdiction of Panama. The defendants and their families are its only shareholders.
According to the lawyer Eduardo Sasson, the defendants they tried to move the money from those accounts, without success. The foregoing was corroborated by the Central Bank of Uruguay.
The companies chaired and directed by Goldring – Cukier gave losses in the order of US$ 100 millionand she was denounced for misappropriation and fraud.
