After the hit-and-run, Buzali was arrested and spent two years in prison until his lawyer Marcelo Peña secured his release. Today, the plaintiffs requested an eight-year prison sentence for Juan Ignacio Buzali, the ex-husband of the director of the Banco Nación, Carolina Píparo, who is accused of the attempted murder of two motorcyclists he ran over, mistaking them for criminals. Lawyer Martín Miguel De Vargas, representing one of the victims, spoke with the Noticias Argentina agency and stated that he requested an eight-year prison sentence, to which the other victim also agreed. “The prosecution asked for six years in prison,” added the lawyer, who considered that the prosecutor “did very well” and explained: “We focused a lot on the personalities, the psychological states and the stress situations of Buzali and Píparo.” In this sense, De Vargas indicated that he based his arguments on the images recorded by security cameras, through which the physical reconstruction of the event was achieved. “Thanks to the tracking of the vehicles, we were able to reconstruct the entire route and the statements because Carolina Píparo lied,” he stated, while specifying that the accused and the former national deputy “could have avoided the collision with the victims in ten different ways.” To date, the date on which the Oral Criminal Court No. 1 of La Plata will announce the verdict against the accused is unknown.
The events for which Píparo's ex-husband went to trial occurred on January 1, 2021, in the early morning hours when the current director of the Banco Nación reported having been the victim of a robbery on street 47 between 15 and 16, as they were getting out of the vehicle to drop off her father at his home. In her testimony, she highlighted that with Buzali they were approached by several motorcycles with armed occupants who stole her purse. After the robbery, and at the moment they were going to file a complaint, the couple believed they recognized the presumed thieves and followed them in a black Fiat 500L car with a white roof. “At the intersection of 21 and 40, Buzali rammed from behind a motorcycle in which Luis Lavalle and a 17-year-old teenager were riding, who were injured after falling onto the pavement,” the indictment states. After the investigation, it was proven that the two occupants of the motorcycle, one of them a minor, had no relation to the criminal fact.
