They arrested Whpei financier for extorting an entrepreneur along with Judge Bailaque and former AFIP holder

ROSARO.– Financier Fernando Whpei, one of the heads of the financial group Union, was arrested after being charged in two cases: one, for maneuvers he carried out with the federal judge of Rosario Marcelo Bailaque – who was already formally charged on April 30 – to extort money from a businessman who was demanded of $200,000; the other, for the management of millionaire funds from a cooperative of dockers who was intervened and who was handed ov…

Rosario, May 14, 2025–Total News Agency-TNA-In a dramatic turn for the financial and judicial sphere, businessman Fernando Whpei, head of the Union Group, was arrested this afternoon on the order of the judge of Guarantees Eduardo Rodrígues Da Cruz, who endorsed a request for pretrial detention requested by prosecutor Diego Velasco (Procelac). Whpei faces two cases: extortion of an entrepreneur—linked to the federal judge Marcelo Bailaque—and th…

Judge Marcelo Bailaque and the former holder of AFIP, Carlos Vaudagna, are also involved. Federal judge Rodrígues Da Cruz ordered on Tuesday night the arrest of the financier Fernando Whpei, in the framework of the Bailaque case, where he is investigated for alleged extortion along with a former federal judge and former AFIP official, and also ordered the inhibition of his assets for $1.5 billion. In his ruling, Judge Rodrigues Da Cruz considere…

Rosarino financier Fernando Whpei was arrested Tuesday night by order of federal judge Carlos Rodrigues Da Cruz, in the Bailaque case, an investigation for alleged extortion that also involves former federal judge Marcelo Bailaque and former head of AFIP Rosario Carlos Vaudagna. In addition to pretrial detention for 90 days, the magistrate ordered the general inhibition of Whpei’s assets for 1.5 billion pesos. In his ruling, the judge considered…

The businessman and financier Fernando Whpei (Grupo Unión) was arrested on Tuesday night with pre-trial detention for 90 days, accused in two cases of alleged corruption that also involve his friend, Federal Judge No4 de Rosario, Marcelo Martín Bailaque, who is charged but continues the process in freedom. Among the arguments that the judge of the hearing, Eduardo Rodrigues de la Cruz, took into account, in order to dictate the restrictive measu…

The financier Fernando Whpei was detained in pretrial detention for 90 days, in the framework of a case for extortion of an entrepreneur and for the admission of millionaire funds from the port cooperative operated by San Lorenzo and Puerto San Martín. The investigation links him directly with the federal judge Marcelo Bailaque, charged in the same case, and with the alleged receipt of about one billion pesos. During the hearing, held this Tuesd…