Ricardo Cavallo

Miguel Ángel Cavallo ( born September 29, 1951) also known as Ricardo Miguel Cavallo is an Argentine who is accused of having been involved as a lieutenant during the military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983 on state terrorism of the so-called process of national reorganization.

Biography

Member of the Argentine General Staff

In January 1972 Cavallo midshipman was the High Command of the Argentine Navy.

1976, at the beginning of the military dictatorship, civil Cavallo was dressed and wore his hair long, which is why he was also called Serpico because of alleged similarities to the 1973 movie character played by Al Pacino. He studied Ciencias Exactas ( Mensa graduate studies ). In 1978 he continued his studies in the Navy in Human Medicine. During the military dictatorship, the Escuela Superior de Mecánica de la Armada (ESMA ) ( Mechanic School of the Navy ) was a detention and torture center. Cavallo was a member of the task force GT 3.32 to ESMA. In this context, it was kidnapping, torture, disappearances of prisoners and "mediation" of infants who had been born in prison, accused of financially strong buyers. One of his new filings for a passport for the end of 1978 was a trip to France - it is therefore presumed that the command Cavallo Tetricus I. " Centro Piloto " belonged, the Argentine diplomat Elena Holmberg kidnapped in this period in Paris and murdered. In 1981, he worked for ESMA again. In democratic Argentina applied for and received a passport in 1986 to travel to the United States. At that time he was engaged in the general staff and pointed front against the Argentine federal agency a letter of recommendation from Juan Carlos Anchezar, the deputy chairman of Hugo Anzorreguy in Argentine News Ministry Secretaría de Inteligencia del Estado (SIDE) was. In 1987, Cavallo Lieutenant Commander and continue in the General Staff of the Navy.

Entrepreneurs in Mexico

By falsifying documents to Argentine military appropriated in part to the ability of the murdered people by themselves. The prey of this expropriation, which is estimated at least 70 million U.S. dollars, was part of the state terrorism of the military. These assets formed the basis for enterprises, in which the former torturers operate as owners and managers, as well as Cavallo.

Cavallo concentrated his entrepreneurial initiative initially on Central America and Mexico from 1999 on. Even if he already was 1990 Civil List, as he lived and worked in Comodoro Py 2055, the headquarters of the General Staff of the Navy.

Cavallo remained in the compartment of the security services. He offered to the operation of the data registers, which actually belonged to the jurisdiction of the States. These included the pass and registration, voter registration and vehicle registration. As part of the liberalization under Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León succeeded Cavallo company TALSUD, the concession for the establishment and operation of a Mexican motor vehicle central register it: to gain Marenave ( Registro Nacional de Vehículos ). A competitor for this contract, Siemens. The Marenave Act was passed by the Mexican parliament on 3 June 1998 and was from 15 June 1998 to 31 December 2000.

Arrest

In 2000, Ricardo Miguel Cavallo was arrested in Cancún, Mexico. The accusation of the Mexican authorities was fraud, embezzlement and illegal sale of vehicles. During the investigation, Cavallo's former life as a lieutenant Miguel Angel Cavallo alias " Serpico " in Argentina was revealed and that as such he was accused of numerous crimes such as genocide, torture and terrorism during the Argentine military dictatorship in the 1970s. A Mexican court ruled on a request for extradition, which had been provided by the Spanish Audiencia Nacional. Uncovering the case Cavallo had doubts about the liberalization of the Security Forces in Mexico rise as the licensing of Kraffahrzeugzentralregisters had contributed in private law for immersion of Cavallo.

Extradition to Spain

Cavallo was extradited in June 2003 by the Mexican authorities to the Spanish .. In Spain wanted him, the Audiencia Nacional in December 2006 did not accuse, because they saw strengthened the legal system in Argentina, and encouraged the Argentine prosecutor to file an extradition request. In February 2008, a court agreed to an extradition request of Argentina.

Legal proceedings in Argentina from 2008

On 31 March 2008 Cavallo was extradited from the Spanish to the Argentine authorities. Relatives of victims of the Argentine dictatorship Spanish had until last attempted to prevent the delivery because they heard a carryover of the process in Argentina feared .. In April 2008, Cavallo was in Argentina in a court case.