[News] The relationship between the Factop case and the subject arrested for buying an AK-47

[FNX Magokiler]

In the midst of all the writings that have been linked to the bankruptcy reorganization of Factop factoring (before the Seventh Civil Court of Santiago), a large number of people and companies appear that are creditors of the bankrupt Sauer family company.

Among the creditors are, for example, the lawyer María Leonarda Villalobos herself and her husband (who lent a billion pesos to the Sauers), but there is also a company from Concepción, M&T, which has a rather peculiar history, as it ensures having been a victim of Factop and also of Matías Ugalde, who became known nationally in 2020, when the Organized Crime Investigative Brigade (Brico) of the PDI arrested him, along with six other people, accused of having purchased an AK rifle -47.

Although the story goes back 13 or 14 years, the lawyer who represents the owners of M&T, Pablo Faundes Beckdorf, points out that only as a result of Luis Hermosilla's audio were they able to have a more exact view of what happened to the money from their clients.

The beginning of the story is told in a complaint filed before the Concepción Court, which explains that the owners of M&T, Mauricio Toledo and Patricio Maturana, were awarded an important subcontract with Valko SA in 2009, in the midst of the improvement of the road that connects the towns of Ensenada and Las Cascadas, at the foot of the Osorno volcano, which had been delivered by the Ministry of Public Works to Valko.

 

 

In total, there were close to 1,500 million pesos that the Penquista company would receive.

However, it is indicated in said judicial action, "just after the work began, Matías Alfonso Ugalde Vásquez appeared on the scene", who contacted Toledo, "presenting himself as a businessman and business manager, offering to develop a series of ventures in favor of the M&T company.”

Since Ugalde claimed to have contacts in Valko, Toledo commissioned him to take charge of the works in the south, but money began to run out around February 2010 (shortly before the earthquake), as the first payments from Valko had not arrived. However, when they asked about it, the company told them that they had paid Ugalde on time. When asked how they canceled him, if he did not have the authority to do so, they were shown two mandates signed before the Santos Notary Office in Santiago, which authorized Ugalde to receive said money.

Faundes explains that Ugalde's fingerprint is actually on the mandate, but – as he points out – the signatures of his clients were forged.

The complaint also asserts that, in addition to the above, many M&T invoices were delivered by Ugalde to Factop without the knowledge of the company's owners, to such an extent that – the lawyer details – “in most of the invoices there is an acknowledgment of debt signed by Mr. Daniel Sauer for Factop, and Mr. Ugalde, in the notary office of Samuel Klecky Rapaport in Santiago.”

 

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