Buenos Aires, November 14 (NA) -- Former businessman Elías Piccirillo will begin serving house arrest today. He is being prosecuted for planting drugs and a gun on businessman Francisco Hauque, to whom he owed money, and to access the benefit, he had to face a multimillion-dollar embargo. According to the report accessed by the Argentine News Agency, the ex-husband of Jésica Cirio granted real estate worth $500 million, and the embargo was accepted: “To that end, the corresponding orders are to be issued in order to proceed to note the embargo to respond to the fixed real bail”. As indicated by judicial representatives, they admitted the measure taken on November 7, “to materialize on the date the house arrest of Elías David Piccirillo”. Piccirillo, who was detained under preventive detention, had suffered “an adjustment disorder with depressive and anxious mood” due to “confinement”, which generated “a certain and progressive risk to his psychological integrity”, the document states. Furthermore, the ruling emphasized that “there is no risk of flight or hindrance of the investigation”, so it is “viable” for the accused to access house arrest in the Buenos Aires locality of Banfield. In turn, it was specified that the analysis of an expert determined “an attitude of submission and defeat” marked by “spontaneous crying” and “a thought monopolized by despair and helplessness”. In this sense, it was concluded that house arrest “satisfies the purposes of the process and avoids the aggravation of a psychological pathology”. The former businessman is accused of the crimes of “coercive kidnapping, aggravated drug trafficking, aggravated concealment, and illegal carrying of a weapon”.
