The Nation / Lawyer considers a consistent report from Seprelad on Trovato’s company

The Public Ministry reported through a statement that the documents of the Seprelad on the communication of an alleged punishable act of money laundering involving the firm FastPlay of the Trovato family with ApostaLa, a bookmaker, entered the institution recently the middle of December last year.

The aforementioned report contains data that necessarily require an analysis by the Technical Directorate before the opening of a criminal case, in order to legally observe the necessary elements required by law. The Prosecutor’s Office has professionals who are dedicated to this task, whose opinion is of the utmost importance for the pertinent progress, refers the letter released.

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This procedure is elaborated in all the cases that enter the Economic Crimes and Anticorruption Unit, in order to make the corresponding analysis on the elements that are brought to the Public Ministry, a process that has been implemented since the management of the then deputy prosecutor of the Unit, Carlos Arregui, today head of Seprelad.

Said report and process are confidential, that is, it is not public nor can it be publicized, according to Gafilat’s recommendations, constituting its publication by a public official a serious offense for the country and the violation of privileged information on cases that could have criminal relevance for the opening of a case, in some cases, even linked to organized crime. Therefore, the leak could benefit these criminal groups and structures.

You can read: Trovato admits link with sports betting company

The Secretariat for the Prevention of Money or Property Laundering (Seprelad) revealed in a confidential report the links of the company ApostaLa, the exclusive concessionaire of sports betting in Paraguay, with the firm FastPay, of the Trovato family. This was revealed by the program La Cana Negra, from Unicanal, last night.

The Daruma SAM SA company, for the ApostaLa brand, registers credits from the firm Infinium SA (FastPay), owned by the Trovato family. The total amount of the credit in favor of the FastPay company amounts to G. 24,067,098,756.

The reserved and confidential report is already in the possession of the Public Ministry, which must initiate an investigation in the face of indications of an alleged money laundering scheme. The report confirms the introduction in the betting system of ApostaLa of the firm FastPay with the function of receiving the bets on the web platform, allowing the money of the bets to be made through platforms of electronic payment means and payment systems using credit cards.

The firm Infinium SA (FastPay) was incorporated in the city of Asunción on March 16, 2018 before the notary public Justo Germán Denis. The registration of the firm in the Public Registry of Commerce was carried out on April 6, 2018. The capital of the firm is G. 120 million confirmed by 12 shares of G. 10 million each. Among the shareholders of the firm are Julio César Trovato Retamozo and Marco Antonio Trovato Villalba, former president of the Olimpia club and director of the firm FastPay.

According to the Seprelad report of May 17, 2018, just one month after starting operations, the Trovato company records a transfer of G. 100,826,816 in favor of the ApostaLa firm, they spread through La Caja Black

The FastPay company is a multi-payment gateway for online payments with cards and electronic wallets. In a statement made public by the firm ApostaLa, it is mentioned that FastPay is an “electronic means of streamlining integration” that Tigo Money uses to make payments and that it belongs to the firm Infinium, owned by Julio Trovato Retamozo. The statement even speaks that a contract was signed with the Trovato firm to operationalize that service

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