Referee Martín Bustos did not notify Buenos Aires about his trip to Rosario, although he was obliged to do so. It was precisely in that Santa Fe city where he was detained for arranging a meeting with a 13-year-old who is part of the inferiors of Newell. Bustos had to apply for permission to move more than 200 miles away from Avellaneda’s office. However, despite this judicial restriction, the arbitrator did not notify the authorities of his trip to Rosario, Santa Fe.
Prosecutor Soledad Garibaldi began to suspect that the trips of Bustos and the public relations Leonardo Cohen Arazi to Posadas began to become more followed. Now they investigate what happened in Rosario could have been repeated in the missionary capital and other parts of the country. On Saturday, the justice of Lomas de Zamora accepted the request for pre-trial detention requested by prosecutor Garibaldi. In turn, the judge of Rosario, Ismael Manfrín, ruled on Saturday 90 days of pre-trial detention for Bustos, who refused to testify for the accusation of grooming, the crime of harassing through social networks and has sentences of six months to four years in prison. Remember that on Thursday night, Bustos was arrested after Newell’s complaint for contacting a player from the lower divisions who, in addition, asked him to make a nexus to reach other players.
The spokesman for the Sexual Crimes Tax unit of Rosario, Sebastián Carranza, reported that Bustos would have exchanged several messages with the minor, in which he pretended to be a masseuse to make the meeting in an apartment. He never got to have personal contact with the child, but the young person was suspicious the messages and last Wednesday decided to tell the psychologist of the club, who immediately made the complaint in the prosecution in charge of Carla Cerliani. The crime attributed to him is By “Having contacted a minor of 14 years using the service of WhatsApp”, at the same time that it was presented “with false name” since it said that it was called “Martín Lucero” and that it was “sport masseur”.
