Milanés
Manager Jailed
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The
manager of Savings Unlimited, Michael
González Villalobos, is being held in
preventive detention in the San Sebastian
prison, on the south side of San José.
González is the first person to be
detained after the closing of Savings
Unlimited, while the prosecutor's office
investigates fraud.
González
has been in the detentions center since last
Friday (Nov 29), when authorities picked him
up at his home. A judge ordered a six month
preventive detention.
According to the complaints files by the
investors of Savings Unlimited, the Tico was
one of the closets collaborators of the cuban
Luis Milanés Tamayo Coto, 52 years old, and
whos'e whereabouts are unknown.
The cuban is the owner of the firm that took
in investment dollars and closed it's office
doors the week earlier in the Centro Colon,
San Jose, after dozens of investors asking for
their money.
The authorities estimate that the fraud could
top $200 Million Dollars (75,000 colones).False
Information
Presumably, Gonzaléz was one the person in
charge of attending to the investors, who
claim where misled when told that they
wouldn't be able to get their monies back
based on a prohibition placed on the firm by Superintendencia General de Entidades Financieras
(SUGEF).
Savings Unlimited was never regulated by that institution.
They were later told that due to the hundreds
affected, apparently, by the financial
problems fronting the brothers Villalonos (the
Ofinter case) the SUGEF made the decision.
That version was false as no authority made
that order as the cases were not related,
though they shared a similarity in operation
on investments.
The Ministerio Publico is still looking for
other person, same as the detained manager,
presumably gave false information to the
benefit of Milanés.
"These person said that the money was
frozen until the next yest and that is not
certain", said a judicial source tied to
the investigation.
To date the Fiscalía de delitos Económicos
has received about 30 complaints against the
cuban Milanés.
Despite the tracking being done by the police,
as of yesterday they could not find any
trace of his destination. It is not discounted
that he could have left Costa Rica at the
south border with Panama.
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