Buenos Aires, November 21 (NA) – Former footballer Alejandro Mancuso will stand trial for allegedly committing fraud by issuing fake checks for a total of nearly 2,500,000 pesos.
The oral and public trial, to be held at the Mar del Plata courts and with no date set yet, will determine the alleged responsibility of the former assistant to Diego Armando Maradona during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. He is accused of receiving cash in exchange for deferred payment checks, according to information published by the La Capital newspaper portal and accessed by the Argentine News Agency.
According to the hypothesis of prosecutor Santiago Eyherebide, the first of the events would have occurred in January 2021, when Mancuso and the apparent victims met at a property, where the former Boca and Vélez player obtained a figure of $715,000 in exchange for two deferred payment checks from Banco Comafi.
In that same month, the victims met again with the former footballer to give him money in exchange for two other checks (one for 670,000 pesos and another for 1,100,000) from Banco Nación, which would correspond to the National Institute of Social Security for Retirees and Pensioners.
However, the Comafi check was returned by the bank branch due to an "order not to pay with funds", while the second was denied because it was "overdue".
On the other hand, the Banco Nación checks are genuine, and the account number also exists, although it would not belong to the National Institute of Social Security for Retirees and Pensioners.
Mancuso would have endorsed the coupons, which were bearer.
