The former mayor of the Mendoza town of Guaymallen, Luis LobosHe was sentenced to six years in prison for illicit enrichment Y fraudulent administration, within the framework of an abbreviated trial. Consequently, the leader of the Justicialist Party He will spend 8 years in jail, given that the courts unified a previous sentence for which he was already detained.
On the day of Wednesday, December 28, the Collegiate Criminal Court 2, made up of Luis Correa Llano, Ramiro Salinas and Nancy Lecek, agreed to a prison sentence for a term of 6 years for these two crimes and the unification was established in 8, in relation to another case where he was already sentenced to 4 and a half years, pity that currently Wolves meets in the San Felipe Mendoza PenitentiaryAs reported telam.
In May 2019 Lobos had been sentenced to four years and six months in prison and disqualified for life from holding public office for defrauding the State while his wife Claudia Sgro She was sentenced at that time to 3 years and four months as a primary participant in the same crime.
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That time, the couple was found guilty of making Sgró’s domestic employee and her son appear as municipal employees without their knowledge, and thus keeping most of their salaries. To them, Lobos’s mother-in-law told them that the amount they did receive was in concept of social assistance from the municipality.
According to justice, for more than four years, the mayor’s mother-in-law collected her salaries with the cards of the mother and son. In total they raised more than $440,000.
The convicts were denounced by the same domestic employee shortly after Lobos lost the 2015 elections, when the woman found out that they were listed as state employees and not as beneficiaries of social assistance.
Lobos, who was president of the Deliberative Council of that municipality located in Greater Mendoza, assumed the mayorship between 2013 and until 2015, replacing Alejandro Abraham, also from the PJ, who was elected national deputy.
The former mayor already had several cases of corruption and this is the second time he has been found guilty in a trial.
On this occasion, in an abbreviated trial, at the time of admitting his guilt before the court, the former Peronist leader agreed to testify and told those present that “What everyone has to thank Luis Lobos for, the entire system, are the Luis Lobos codes. Nothing more”.
As part of this judicial agreement, he pleaded guilty to illicit enrichment by not being able to justify the acquisition of luxury goods and also acknowledged that he had committed fraudulent administration in respect of the case that involved the company Wanka SA, which was paid for the paving of streets, although the works were never carried out.
The final hearing of the abbreviated trial was negotiated by the chief prosecutor for Economic Crimes, Xavier Easter, and the defense of Lobos, in charge of Mariela Ponce and Eugenia Moyano and at the same time, the perpetual disqualification from holding public office, an economic fine and the penalty of confiscation in the updated amount -as of November 30, 2022- of $147,895,237.61.
There, Lobos’s decision to withdraw the appeals he had filed against the execution of the Asset Forfeiture Law was also included, through which the assets whose purchase he could not justify were expropriated.
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