Overview
- Police from the DDI carried out a search of an apartment on Av. Colón on July 1 and notified two women, aged 62 and 61, who were formally imputed by UFI N°12 under fiscal Luis Ferreyra.
- Investigators seized more than 1.24 million pesos, hundreds of dollars, a television, a washing machine, ritual materials, five notebooks with annotations and at least one cellphone as evidence for the probe.
- The victim, a Mar del Plata businesswoman, says what began as a voluntary December 2025 tarot or ritual consultation escalated into repeated demands that she pay roughly US$26,000 and 15 million pesos and hand over jewelry and appliances.
- Prosecutors say the alleged scheme used audio messages invoking ‘‘arcángeles’’ and threats to family to keep payments flowing, and that a second woman acted as a collector who received transfers, accompanied purchases and retrieved cash.
- Both suspects remain free pending further procedural acts as authorities analyze bank movements, messages and a seized notebook of names and amounts to determine which payments were voluntary, identify other victims and set next steps.