Overview
- A formal complaint accuses Fürth Automotores SA of a multimillion‑dollar embezzlement scheme and triggered a judicial investigation after internal alerts and a lawyer’s filing.
- Judicial teams executed four simultaneous searches at the dealership’s Libertad Street offices and at three employees’ homes, seizing extensive paperwork now under forensic review.
- The dealership’s sales manager, Matías Llado, has asked the court for exemption from preventive detention and his request remains pending before Judge Sergio Guillet.
- About 25 customers have lodged formal complaints alleging vehicles without license plates, delayed factory certifications and cases of vehicles showing double ownership, complicating title tracing.
- Specialists from the Department of Economic Crimes and police units will audit sales, inventory and IT records to reconstruct the sales circuit, and prosecutors warn the probe may widen as documents are analyzed.