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Opposition Leader Calls Raid on His Home a Mafia Message

Civic Coalition of Pilar leader Matías Yofe appeared in court after police raided his home under a warrant issued by a judge he accuses of controlling the judiciary. He called it an attempt to intimidate him and his team.


Opposition Leader Calls Raid on His Home a Mafia Message

Opposition leaders stated they are whistleblowers on money laundering and bribery facts against former Buenos Aires Transport Minister Jorge D’Onofrio and the Argentine Football Association (AFA). The leader also noted that “the raid on Friday at Matías’s home was a mafia message.” “More than Prosecutor (Germán) Camafreita, it was the San Isidro guarantees judge, Massa, who acted badly,” he said in reference to magistrate Walter Federico Saettone. The leader expanded that Massa is “who controls a large part of the Justice of the province of Buenos Aires”. As reported by the Argentine News Agency, the Buenos Aires Police raided Yofe’s home last Friday. The operation was requested by Prosecutor Camafreita and authorized by Judge Saettone, within the framework of an investigation for “presumed robbery or theft.” In addition, cell phones, storage technology devices, computers, and documentation were seized. “It is clear that both with the investigation on VTVs, and with the one that investigates the fraudulent handling of football money, we have made several nervous, especially in this area of the province,” he said after speaking with the prosecutor. Carrió accompanied Yofe to testify after the raid on his home. And he added that “unlike those accused in both cases we investigate, we came to face Justice, because we have nothing to hide. It seems we made a few nervous,” said the leader, who was an AFA whistleblower and this Monday was accompanied by the party’s leader, Elisa Carrió, who is also his legal representative. Yofe stated that “we came to respond to the requisition of Justice in a case with no kind of basis, neither in the facts, nor in the law and we had an audience with the prosecutor. They continue to hide and in the shadows,” he added. Previously, Carrió had pointed out that the former presidential candidate of Union for the Homeland (UxP) Sergio Massa “is desperate.” “I come to assist Matías. Buenos Aires, December 5 (NA) – The leader of the Civic Coalition of Pilar Matías Yofe presented this Monday at the Fiscal Unit of Investigations (UFI) 3 of Pilar to appear before Justice after his house was raided last Friday. “We came to respond to the requisition of Justice in a case with no kind of basis. The operation was qualified by Carrió as a 'mafia procedure' intended to intimidate.”