Pretrial detention for the former owner of La Veloz del Norte for crimes against humanity

The Federal Oral Court No. 1 of Salta yesterday ordered the preventive detention of the former owner of La Veloz del Norte Marcos Jacabo Levín and former police officers Víctor Hugo Almirón and Enrique Víctor Cardozo and the executive José Antonio Grueso, for illegal detentions and torments to 17 workers. The decision was made by majority, with the dissent of Judge Marta Liliana Snopek. In addition to ordering preventive detention, Judge María Alejandra Cataldi and Judge Juan Carlos Reynaga decided to issue an official letter to the Assistance Program for Persons under Electronic Surveillance and the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights of the Nation, “so that, after a feasibility report in the homes of the accused, a control device (electronic bracelet) is placed on those named.” The measures were issued at the request of Attorney General Carlos Amad. The court also agreed to update the amounts of attachments imposed at the time on the four defendants. In the case of Levín, he imposed an embargo of $ 2,400,000, and $ 1,200,000 for Almirón, Cardozo and Grueso. They were also banned from leaving the country. At the time of the events, Levín was the owner of the passenger transport company La Veloz del Norte, Almirón and Cardozo worked in the 4th Police Station of the city of Salta, where a clandestine detention and torture center operated, and Grueso was personnel manager of La Veloz. The four accused are held responsible for drawing up the list of persons to be arrested. The accusation maintains that Levín used the repressive structure of the State to silence any attempt to claim labor in his company. To that end, he filed a criminal complaint accusing UTA union leader Victor Cobos and other workers of alleged fraud, which was never proven, but which at the time launched a series of detentions, torture and interrogations, and then many of these employees were fired. 

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