Two members of Cooperativa Poravoty Ltda., Milder Javier Núñez Delgado and José Rolando Doldán González, will stand trial in criminal proceedings brought by former president of the National Institute of Cooperativism (Incoop), Pedro Loblein. The case is linked to protests by depositors demanding answers about their frozen savings after the cooperative halted operations.
The examination of the evidence and the defendants’ conduct will be handled by the Single-Judge Trial Court No. 2, presided over by Judge Lourdes Llano Villalba. The private prosecution was filed after demonstrations and protests outside homes in San Lorenzo, organized by groups of members who say they lost access to their savings.
The case comes amid the intervention and liquidation of Poravoty, measures ordered by the Incoop administration led by engineer Carlos Romero Roa. The decision barred the cooperative from taking in new savings or granting loans and also established a ban, lasting several years, on members of the Board of Directors, the Supervisory Board and management who were serving during the period under investigation.
According to accounts gathered in the case and in the depositors’ protests, the crisis left hundreds of families unable to recover their funds. The Coordinating Committee of Defrauded Depositors considers it contradictory that members affected by the loss of assets should face legal proceedings for demanding oversight and explanations.
The depositors’ position also concerns the role Loblein held before taking up duties at Poravoty. He headed Incoop between 2020 and 2023, a period that members link to alleged control failures and the alleged stripping of the cooperative’s assets. The available material does not confirm that he was held criminally responsible for misappropriating the assets.
After leaving the regulatory body, Loblein began working as Poravoty’s financial adviser in February 2024 and officially became general manager in October of the same year. It was in that capacity that he brought the case against the two members. The depositors say any responsibility on his part would be administrative, based on an alleged failure to carry out oversight while he was president of Incoop.
Alongside the case against the protesters, families are awaiting investigations by the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the courts into the fate of Poravoty’s assets and the possible channels through which funds were diverted, allegedly leading to the cooperative’s collapse and liquidation. The trial of the two members is expected to address the conduct attributed to them during the protests, without by itself determining responsibility for the cooperative’s financial losses.