The Sentencing Court, presided over by Darío Báez and composed of Gloria Hermosa and Natalia Cacavelos, began the oral and public trial this Wednesday of Óscar Atilio Boidanich Ferreira, former head of the Secretariat for the Prevention of Money Laundering (Seprelad). Boidanich is accused of frustrating criminal prosecution and delaying, through alleged collusion, an intelligence report on Brazilian money exchanger Darío Messer.
According to the charges filed on 11 June 2025, Boidanich and two employees under his command — former Director-General of Financial Analysis Raquel Cuevas Arzamendia and former head of the Data Analysis and Processing Department Melissa María del Mar Parodi González — unjustifiably postponed for ten months the start of criminal proceedings against Messer. The maneuver, prosecutors say, caused the loss of the opportunity to seize or confiscate assets of illicit origin.
Boidanich's role was allegedly central: the indictment states that he personally replied to a note sent by Messer on 31 October 2016, a few days after the investigation was opened. After completing the analysis, the former head is said to have shelved the case for four months, only delivering the report to the Public Prosecutor's Office on 17 April 2018, after the case became public.
The two former Seprelad employees benefited from a conditional suspension of proceedings after admitting the facts. Boidanich's defense, led by lawyers Claudio Lovera and César Alfonso, requested a postponement of the first date set for 8 April, which was granted by the court. Prosecutors Francisco Cabrera, Jorge Arce and Fernando Meyer represent the prosecution.