Primus Capital | Chile | Chilean megafraud that hit models and investment funds in Peru | Investigation

Last Friday, April 12 night, a Belgian national was detained near Bucalpa Airport in Ucayali. Interpol was after him because they suspected him of being the lead investigator in a multi-million dollar fraud and embezzlement scandal in Chile. His name matched the red alert: Francisco José Coeymans Ossandon. However, the person they are looking for is a Chilean national.

Francisco Goymans, 46, used his European passport to mislead Chilean authorities. This is how he left without turning up for a court hearing scheduled for April 3. Before setting foot on Peruvian soil, he traveled to Mexico and the United States as if nothing had happened. It was always overlooked.

On the day he was captured in the Peruvian jungle, Interpol agents asked Goeymans for his identity document to verify it was the same person. It was him and his partner, Peruvian model Tiffany Yoko Chong Campos, 28 years old.

The Chilean businessman was accused in his country of leading a fraud scheme from the factoring firm Primus Capital, where he was general manager.

Companies like Primus, for example, are dedicated to providing instant cash to closed sales invoicing companies that are collateralized with third parties.

A factoring company enters into this process to collect a lump sum from a third party. In other words, they are middlemen in buying and selling.

This is the same Primus Capital that was denounced in March 2023 by Francisco Goymans and its former business manager, Ignacio Amenabar, after an internal audit found that 123 checks were issued without funds equal to 10 million 349 thousand 87 dollars.

Last Wednesday Koemans sought a simplified extradition request to be returned to his country within 60 days, but he sought to avoid detention.

Her lawyer Ucayali presented to the court, among other documents, a marriage certificate with Yoko Chong issued by the Church of Peru. By this he intended to prove his roots.

Incredibly, according to the document, the wedding took place on Monday, April 15. That is, when the fugitive businessman was jailed by the Bugalba police, who is said to be his wife.

The judge rejected that certificate and handed down a six-month prison sentence against Francisco Goymans, who will be held in a prison in the city of Soda while paperwork for his extradition to Chile is completed.

Samples and money

At least two Peruvian models were involved in this fraud and money laundering scheme. The complaint alleges that Goemans and Amenabar diverted ill-gotten gains in the South to Peru.

One of them is Yoko Chong, known for her expulsion from the Miss Peru pageant in 2021, when she spoke out against the quarantine established to prevent COVID-19 infections.

Witness Jorgera Retamales indicated that Chong and a former Primus manager carried the money in “suitcases of different colors” and that once in Peruvian territory, part of the resources were transferred to the tax haven of Panama.

The other model mentioned is Elva Vrako, ex-partner of footballer Jean Tessa. Her mother, Rosaluz Delgado, is also involved.

The investigation revealed that Amenabar's girlfriend Wrako used the money he gave her to buy a luxury Jaguar car in 2023 worth US$89,990 and an apartment in Sargo in 2022 worth S/916,301 in cash.

Not only that. With the alleged illegal proceeds, Delgado became the owner of four vehicles. Neither she nor her daughter had the resources to make those purchases. Vraco's lawyer, Elio Riera, told this newspaper that the assets were “gifts” from Amenábar and that his client did not know the origin of the funds.

Primus Capital condemned Coymans, Amenabar, Chong, Vracco and Delgado in Peru. The prosecutor's office decided not to open an investigation against the first three, citing insufficient evidence. That decision still needs to be approved by Senior Counsel Elizabeth Peralta.

But in the cases of Elva Vracco and Rosalus Delgado, proceedings were initiated because the property purchase evidenced an unexplained increase in assets. The process is in charge of lawyer Yajaira Contreras.

According to the Chilean press, the person drowning in the story is Peruvian businesswoman Ana Maria Forno. That country's justice system is tracking money moved by Primus' former directors, and those funds will be held by a Peruvian citizen in closing accounts.

Forno recognition a Peru21 His company, Forania Spa, a client of Primus Capital, also admitted that he knew the condemned former executives. However, he claimed that he never participated in any illegal money exchange in association with these characters.

Anga SAFI splashed

Marcelo Rivadeneira is the main businessman in the Primus Capital case scandal. According to the Chilean justice, he lent his companies to a mechanism created by Coeymans and Amenabar to simulate the issuance of invoices and checks, thereby collecting excessive amounts.

Chilean newspaper La Tercera reported that since 2013, Rivadeneira has piled up complaints in his hometown of Antofagasta for fraud, non-payment and the use of bad checks.

Despite the past, Rivadeneira was not only able to continue its business in Chile, but managed a company in Peru as the same factor and was able to obtain a million-dollar loan from the SAFI investment fund. But before that he made some tricks.

In March 2023, the same month that Primus Capital denounced the fraud, the Chilean executive took over Need Solutions Peru SAC, a consulting firm founded in 2019 by Peruvians David Bravo Schein and Alex Roman Vega, and changed its name to Eco Investments Capital. Peru.

Rivadeneira does not act alone. Sunarp records indicate that the other directors were Peruvian Manuel La Rosa Injoc and Chilean Hugo Villagrán Sepúlveda, another of those involved in the fraud scandal.

And the first decision the trio agreed upon was that Anga would need a loan of US$370,000 from SAFI. That is, they pocketed S/1 million 321 thousand 828. Peru21 They contacted Joel Villanueva, general manager of the Lima Investment Fund, who acknowledged the loan and admitted that Eco Investments had not returned a single dollar.

“We started our collection activities and to date without any positive response from the creditor (Eco Investments Capital Perú), this situation has greatly affected us,” Villanueva said in response to a list of questions he agreed to answer in writing.

He said the legal team was evaluating legal action against Rivadeneira's company for unpaid debt and possible damages to “Anga SAFI's reputation and image”.

There are more episodes to this story. The chapter on the possibility of money laundering in Peru has just begun to write its first lines.

The models and businessmen deny dealing in illegal money

Peru21 Everyone involved in the case was contacted to find out their version.

Ana Maria Forno said she met Ignacio Amenabar on a Peru-Chile flight in November 2017 and maintained a “regular” friendship with him. The connection with Francisco Coeymans is “minor”.

Likewise, he admitted that he was a client of Primus Capital through his company Forania Spa.

“I did not help anyone bring money into Peru, legally or illegally (…) I did not see Francisco Goyamans. Regarding Ignacio Amenábar, I never had access to his lifestyle because I only saw him in the office when he was going to sign the contract for financing,” he revealed in writing.

Meanwhile, Elva Vracco's lawyer, Elio Reira, said the expensive properties listed in her name were “gifts” from Amenabar.

Raira said the attorney's office needed to summon Primus Capital to substantiate its complaint against his client because Amenabar was not included as part of the process.

“The principle of good faith prevails here. “If this person (Ignacio Amenábar) comes and carries out the formal procedure, the minutes are signed, the process becomes bankable, and there is no complaint from the UIF (on tied money), then what crime are we talking about? ?” He questioned. The lawyer did not want to confirm whether his client is still Amenabar's partner, but admitted that he is also the latter's legal guardian.

The newspaper waited until the end of this edition to defend model Yoko Chong, who promised to answer questions in writing. But he did not send any documents to this editorial office.

In a brief message via Instagram, he responded: “Most of the things that are said are insults, all they want in this conflict is to make their own scapegoat.”