2024-03-26 23:31:32
40 days before the trial against former comptroller Carlos Pólit begins in the United States, the Prosecutor’s Office announced part of the evidence it will present.
The United States Prosecutor’s Office is fine-tuning the final details for the money laundering trial against Carlos Pólit.
The former Ecuadorian comptroller will be tried starting April 8, 2024. On February 28, 2024, 40 days after the start of the hearing, Markenzy Lapointe, prosecutor in charge of the case, notified the Court of the Southern District of Florida of the decision to authenticate part of the documentary evidence that will be presented at trial. Under the Federal Rules of Evidence, the Prosecutor’s Office is required to pre-announce the documents he will present at trial, so that the defendant and his attorneys have the opportunity to challenge them.
In this case, prosecutor Lapointe announced the intention to use 24 documents related to the alleged illicit activity of Carlos Pólit, with the intention that they help prove that the former Ecuadorian official laundered money in the United States.
The list presented by the United States Attorney’s Office included the records, numbers and details of bank accounts, emails and companies related to Pólit. Also, US lawyers
have asked Customs and Border Protection for the travel records of Carlos Pólit and his son, John Pólit, from 2011 to 2013.
bank accounts
Regarding bank accounts, the Prosecutor’s Office will show the information of 13 accounts opened in six banks in the United States.
Signature card, account statements and bank transfers from an account in the name of Thomas Kucera, at Bank of America.
BBP Bank account records in the name of Plastiquim.
Bank account details of the companies Los Pinos Home and JC Fund of the City National Bank.
Global Reinsurance and Hendricks Trading bank account records at Merrill Lynch.
Signature card, account statements, wire transfers and checks from American Land Investments & Development, Invecon, Kuadra, JC Funds and Venture Overseas at Suntrust Bank.
Data from Italcom and Imobilaria Cosani accounts at Tower Bank.
Thomas Kucera’s account is included in the list. This character is related to several Miami companies that operated in one of the buildings that John Pólit, son of the former comptroller, would have purchased in the United States.
to launder bribe money. The Plastiquim and Inmobiliaria Cosani accounts also appear, companies that would have been used by the Pólit to launder part of the illicit money, through fraudulent loans that came from companies related to Odebrecht. As well as the Venture Overseas account, the company that Pólit’s father-in-law created to collect those loans.
The companies
Also included in the list of documentary evidence are Florida State corporate records for six companies.
1900 Office Building LLC
American Land Investment & Development LLC Kuadra LLC
Invecon LLC
JC Funds LLC
Los Pinos Home LLC
According to the initial accusation, Pólit used these companies to ‘launder’ the bribe money he received from the Brazilian company Odebrecht and from an Ecuadorian businessman who would be related to contracts with Seguros Sucre.
The companies created by Pólit and his co-conspirators opened accounts in US banks. That is why the movements of these entities are also included in the tests announced on bank accounts.
Between June 2014 and March 2016, Pólit would have his son and intermediary companies in Panama (which were the first destination of the bribe money) transfer millions of dollars to the companies’ accounts in Florida, and then to other accounts. from other companies. And then, from these companies, goods were purchased in different sectors of Miami.
The emails Finally, the US Attorney’s Office asked to certify the messages related to four email accounts.
johnpolit@gmail.com
reports.cgp@gmail.com
reports.jcp@gmail.com
carlospolitfaggioni@hotmail.com
The US Prosecutor’s Office identified emails from the personal accounts of both Carlos Pólit and his son, which would provide information about the collection of bribes from a Spanish businessman.
In exchange for this money, former controller Pólit would have helped with the pending tax matters of the Spanish company with the Ecuadorian authorities. The emails also reveal the plan to launder the money from that bribe in the United States.
That European citizen even asked Pólit for help to get an appointment in Carondelet. The former comptroller offered his intervention through Pedro Solines, who was Secretary of Public Administration, in the Government of Rafael Correa, from October 15, 2015 to January 4, 2017.
Fuente: FIRST FRUITS