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After it transpired that Sergio Perovic, husband of former Santa Cruz mayor Angélica Sosa, left the country and that his whereabouts are unknown, his defense attorney, Jerjes Justiniano, confirmed the departure and said that he is in Salta, Argentina, but still does not have return date.
In this regard, the Regional Directorate of Migration of Santa Cruz ordered the activation of the migratory alert against Perovic, due to a process against him for illicit earnings within the so-called Prestín case. He stated that his records do not contain a legal exit.
“He didn’t run away. He is a frequent traveler, therefore he plans to return. He traveled to Argentina to care for his mother, who is in poor health. The lady, in the first instance, planned to arrive at the department of Santa Cruz, but everything was reversed due to a decompensation that she suffered at the airport, “said Justiniano in contact with El Deber.
The lawyer showed the plane ticket and the mother’s medical report,
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Meanwhile, the Regional Director of Migration, Jorge Daga, affirmed that through a fiscal requirement the migratory alert against Perovic was activated due to a process against him on alleged illicit gains that has to do with the Prestín case.
“Yesterday (Tuesday) an immigration alert was activated, through a tax request from the lawyer Yolanda Ribero Lijerón against Sergio Adolfo Perovic on an alleged fact of legitimization of illicit profits and it is in that sense, according to our procedures that are established in the Directorate of Migration, a migration alert was issued at all checkpoints in order to assist in this investigation process,” Daga said.
Regarding the complaints that Perovic has left the country, Daga said that the records held by the institution do not establish a formal exit through any immigration control post.
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The previous week, the Mayor’s Office of Santa Cruz filed a criminal complaint against Sergio Perovic, husband of former mayor Sosa, and Julio César Herbas, former municipal official, within the investigations carried out by the Public Ministry for the crimes of illicit enrichment and legitimation of illicit profits in the so-called Prestín case.
This case became known after the statement of a protected witness, who denounced that a kind of mini-cooperative was formed within the Santa Cruz Mayor’s Office, in which a loan business with public money was set up for the same officials, for this transaction they were charged 10% interest.
The witness assured that this organization was led by Perovic and managed by Herbas.
