The story of the former employee of the Provincial Courts of Rosario sentenced to a year and a half of conditional prison for defrauding a Buenos Aires taxi driver who did not pay for the trip from the Federal Capital to Rosario and for covering up the car theft has several peculiarities. He was born in China, came into power Judicial by competition in 2016, he worked in a court of Instruction, went through two jobs and ended up in the file because they didn’t want him in any office. His life includes a very striking fact: he did not receive a single peso of salary since he had taken multiple loans.
He was barely involved in the fact of swindling a Buenos Aires taxi driver, Gonzalo Sebastián Oviedo appeared in the area of Human Resources of Courts y, defiantly, he said: “If they are going to distrust me, I resign”. Immediately, they asked him to sign the resignation and withdraw.
But the case also generated surprise and all kinds of comments. The most disturbing thing was that a person with that profile moved without arousing suspicion, and not precisely because his proven inability to work, but for the criminal tasks to which he was dedicated, since he was also convicted of the cover-up of car theft in violent acts and with an armed hand.
Step by Step
This 31-year-old man was born in Beijing, China. The father of the Argentine language translator ended up in the Asian country for work reasons, and there he met Gonzalo’s mother. Later, the family decided to return to Argentina.
Despite being a translator, In March 2014 the vocation for the law prompted him to do internships in the Civil and Commercial Court No. 13a task he did until March 2015. At the end of that same year, he took part in the contest to enter the Judicial Power plant, an instance in which he obtained a good grade.
In March 2016 he was summoned to court. His first step was a Court of Instruction in Casilda, where he was barely a month and a half. In May 2016, she was back in the Balcarce building at 1600.
In the “judicial block” they assigned him to the Labor Court No. 8, where he worked at the entrance table until May 2018. “I lost the writings, it was a disaster,” said judicial operators who treated him. As these errors led to other more serious ones, they assigned him a new office.
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In August 2018, he went to Labor Court No. 6. Given the continuity and reiteration of administrative failures in the simplest procedures, his rating was lowered, and the head of the court directly begged to be transferred.
Those who were close to him did not speak well of his performance. Even with marked disability and ineffectiveness, they still gave him another chance. They sent him to the Court archive, a space where calm reigns and collections of legal books, legal bibliography and old files abound.
The unit is located in front of the assembly hall on the third floor, and the offices of the ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice of the province. “There you can’t go wrong, the job is very simple”, they trusted about the brand new challenge of the employee.
Disturbing and unnoticed
But it didn’t last long. He added a series of criminal behaviors to work distractions serious. It was further learned that He did not receive a single peso of the 160,000 he had as a salary. It is that, as it was possible to determine in the processing of the criminal file, Gonzalo had taken loans that “ate all of his assets”, it was indicated.
The translator and now former judicial employee because he was sentenced this week in a shortened trial to a year and a half in prison of conditional execution for a crime of fraud and two of aggravated concealment.
The penalty is related to fact of last June 14, when he took a taxi at the Retiro Bus Terminal to travel to the Courts of Rosario. But upon reaching his destination, Oviedo vanished inside the judicial building without paying the 42 thousand pesos that marked the rate. The sentence includes a compensation of 60 thousand pesos to the victim.
He was also sentenced for another serious situation: the police found him days later in a Citroën car he owned, but which was listed in the engine and chassis records as stolen, and also had a license plate from another vehicle.