Remember the Helicopter Brothers Don Invested With in Costa Rica?

 

 

This was translated from Spanish to English using Google Translate so it’s a little hard to read.

 

The San José Trial Court ordered the payment of $ 20.2 million in favor of dozens of victims of Osvaldo Villalobos Camacho, recently sentenced to 18 years in prison for aggravated fraud and illegal financial intermediation.   Villalobos attracted - according to the ruling - dozens of foreign investors, whom he offered to pay high interest rates in exchange for their money.  They lost their funds after the sentenced today and his brother, Luis Enrique Villalobos (a fugitive from justice), closed the firms Ofinter and The Brothers after the intervention of the Prosecutor's Office, in July 2002.  This caused dozens of people material and moral damage, the Court estimated.

 

According to Ewald Acuña, legal representative of a group of investors, the money frozen in the Villalobos' accounts, as well as property and assets of their companies, are enough to answer for the economic damage. However, we must wait for the ruling to be final.  Corporate lawsuit. Those affected not only sued Villalobos, but also a group of public limited companies and companies related to him.  These include Casa de Cambio Bulevar, Corporación Platino, Inmobiliaria Platino, Inversiones Hass, Framagra, Casa de Cambio Ofinter, Tourism Support Services, West Pack Marketing, Dorado Internacional and Compañía Mercantil El Desierto.

 

Of the reparations for the economic damage, those of Dana Webster and Patricia Fleming stand out, to whom Villalobos must return $ 2.5 million and $ 1.2 million, respectively.  “The judgment showed that, under no circumstances, did the State of Costa Rica conspire to leave the people who were defrauded by Mr. Villalobos without money.  “The court made public the existence of a group of people outside the process who engaged in interfering, obstructing, demanding and even threatening. I am referring to people who thought that the way to help the Villalobos was to harass, ”said Acuña.

 

Once the sentence is final, a civil process will be established. In bank accounts $ 12 million are frozen.  The rest of the amount would be covered by goods that must be auctioned.  Unconventional case. During the sentencing - on May 16 - the judges highlighted that the Villalobos brothers mobilized more than $ 400 million before being discovered. In his defense, Osvaldo Villalobos tried to separate his foreign exchange activities from those of his fugitive brother.

 

The judges were convinced that the firms were one and that they were dedicated to raising money. "We are facing an unconventional crime," said Judge Carlos Pérez.  https://www.nacion.com/sucesos/tribunal-ordena-pago-de-202-millones-a-victimas-de-ofinter/4OJKVWRC6ZE43OMTOQFSXYOPFA/story/

 

Luis Enrique Villalobos Comacho and his brother were purported to me by Roger Petersen to be the head of the Costa Rican mafia.  Who knows if that was true, but it’s obvious they were con men who made millions off people like Don Lewis who were out to get rich quick and who relied on the verbal recommendations of others without doing any real due diligence.    

 

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