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Former Judge Walter Bento Was Convicted: Mendoza's Tof Declared Him Head of an Illegal Association

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The former judge was found responsible for turning court decisions into an illegal source of income. The court noted him as head of an active criminal structure since 2007. Read more
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The former judge was found responsible for turning court decisions into an illegal source of income. The court noted him as head of an active criminal structure since 2007. Read more

·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Date: September 24, 2020.Origin: Dirección de Lucha contra el Narcotrafico de la Policía de Mendoza.Objetivo: elevación de Preventivo.Detinatario: Procuraduría Federal de Mendoza No 2. This is how the report was presented that, more than five and a half years later, ended with the confirmation that former judge Walter Ricardo Bento was the head of a gang of criminals who was engaged in collecting coimas in exchange for procedural benefits. “Sale…

This decision was made after almost two years of oral debate.The sentence will be defined in a cassura trial, which is scheduled for the next few days.The entry The former judge Walter Bento was convicted for collecting coimas in Mendoza was first published in #BorderPeriodismo.

Former federal judge Walter Bento was found guilty of leading an illegal association that charged prisoners with federal causes, millions of coimas in exchange for “profavors of litigation.” In the next few days, it will be known what penalty the former magistrate should pay in the light of the multiple cases for which he was found responsible. Thus, he reached the end of a process that lasted for more than 5 years and meant the fall of one of t…

After 30 months of trial, the former judge was sentenced as the leader of a criminal network that collected coimas in exchange for procedural benefits, for money laundering and illicit enrichment.

Justice concluded that it used its position to address cases, collect bribes and hide funds of illegal origin through a family network that operated for more than a decade.

·Argentina
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Ámbito broke the news in Argentina on Tuesday, February 3, 2026.
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