The Federal Court of Appeals of Mar del Plata confirmed the preventive detention of three defendants accused of forming an organization dedicated to the exploitation and fraudulent administration of games of chance and the laundering of assets from that activity.
In the largest operation carried out in Argentina, several people were captured who, according to the Prosecutor's Office, "would have been dedicated to the organization and exploitation of different types of games of chance through online betting, which would have been developed without authorization from the control authority in a planned and coordinated manner."
The Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF) stated that these are "conducts that cause serious harm to children and adolescents and to society as a whole, distorting the value of effort and work for the achievement of human development."
The magistrates, who also confirmed the embargoes ordered by investigating judge Santiago Inchausti, maintained that the large amount of money and assets in the accounts belonging to the accused (crypto dollar or USDT at least since 2021), undoubtedly "leads to the assertion that they took advantage of the pseudo-anonymity and the difficult traceability that cryptocurrency operations present, to conceal the receipt of significant sums into their Binance accounts."
