Overview
- Judge Ariel Lijo closed the instruction phase and ordered oral trials for 33 people in the Muñoz laundering tranche on June 26, 2026, naming figures such as Víctor Manzanares and Carolina Pochetti among the accused.
- Prosecutors contend the network funneled roughly $70 million from illegal public‑works collections through domestic firms and sixteen offshore entities to buy real estate, businesses and luxury goods.
- A cooperating witness, former accountant Víctor Manzanares, supplied detailed testimony about companies, bank accounts and cash transfers that prosecutors say underpins the move to trial.
- Documented purchases include about 14 Miami properties worth nearly $55 million and more than 100 Argentine assets plus a local pharmacy chain and fleets of vehicles tied to the scheme.
- The laundering trial will proceed separately from the main Cuadernos corruption trial against other defendants, creating parallel prosecutions that rely on asset tracing and collaborator evidence to link illicit takings to beneficiaries.