They expanded the accusation against the father of former tennis player Pérez Roldán for human trafficking

The Federal Chamber of Mar del Plata expanded the investigation against Raul Perez Roldanfather of the former tennis player Guillermo Perez Roldan, to the crimes of money laundering and human trafficking in the file that investigates the physical and psychological abuse that he applied as a tennis coach. The court also held that the crimes are ongoing and that it is an ongoing event.

This is the case in which Pérez Roldán is being investigated for the acts against his son and against Graciela Perez occurred in the 70s and 80s when he was a tennis coach in the Buenos Aires city of Tandil. The two denounced him for having a training method of abuse with beatings and psychological attacks. Graciela Pérez also denounced him for rape.

Guillermo Pérez Roldán reached number 13 in the world tennis ranking and won nine international tournaments. He is 53 years old, lives in Chile with his family and decades later told his dramatic story that was reflected in the documentary “Guillermo Pérez Roldán, Confidencial”.

In the legal case, the father is being investigated for applying a “’system’ or ‘method’ of training in his capacity as director of the minors’ school of the Argentine Tennis Association, which was characterized by rigidity and intensity. But above all, for instilling fear as a means to obtain sporting and economic results”.

“Since I was a boy I played tennis and also from that age I worked in the exercise of sport in conditions of physical and psychological submission and with conditioning to my individual freedom by my own father. The teaching method, taking advantage of the special privileged position and prestige it held, was based on blows and permanent fear. They did not have a definite explanation, it could be because he had played bad tennis, because he had played well and so that he would not underestimate his rival or because of his own personal anger. I always tried to take the blame as much as possible. Before he hit me, he told me to put on training pants so that I wouldn’t have marks on my legs.”recounted Pérez Roldán.

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The federal judge of Azul Gabriel Giulio ordered that Rául Pérez Roldán be investigated for the crimes of minor and serious injuries, aggravated illegal deprivation of liberty and rape against Graciela Pérez and for qualified injuries, reduction of servitude against his son and for fraudulent administration and money laundering for appropriating the money he won in the tournaments in which he participated.

But both the Prosecutor’s Office and the plaintiff lawyers representing Guillermo Pérez Roldán and Graciela Pérez appealed for the Federal Chamber of Mar del Plata to intervene. The judges Eduardo Jimenez and Alejandro Tazza They accepted the proposal.

The court confirmed that the facts should continue in federal justice and added as a crime to be investigated within the case that of human trafficking of which the complainants were victims.

The magistrates pointed out that “we are at such an incipient stage of the investigation -which has not even begun- that it is not possible to rule out that with its progress, the denounced conducts deserve a different legal qualification from the one provisionally chosen by the judge. here (for example, that the reduction to servitude that Dr. Di Giulio observes in the future receives a more finished typical framing as human trafficking, corresponding then to the intervention of exceptional justice)”.

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For the court, the case is not prescribed either, despite the fact that the events occurred more than 30 years ago. “It corresponds to allow those who would have been victims of such serious crimes during their childhood, which impacted both their physical and mental health as well as their sexual integrity, in addition to having suffered the violation of their patrimonial rights, not be impeded by the internal rule of the statute of limitations to –at least- present their case before the judicial authorities and that an investigation be carried out accordingly, beyond the result that this could produce”, they indicated.

And they highlighted that part of the events occurred when they were minors and that children’s rights should be prioritized. “The criminal action in relation to crimes against sexual integrity (rape and abuse) of which Mrs. Pérez was a victim, is in force and enables the investigation thereof. Likewise, it cannot be ignored that, according to the complainant’s account, such very serious conduct was committed in a context of physical violence (blows that would have left bruises on her face, fractured rib, etc.) and psychological violence to the that she was submitted by an authority figure who was her sports coach, so the investigation of such facts cannot be separated from the investigative hypothesis indicated in the first place”, Jiménez and Tazza framed.

The same with respect to Guillermo Pérez Roldán that had as a consequence of what he experienced “a series of traumas that would have led him to continue to suffer the moral pressure of his father, which the latter would have used to benefit financially, depriving him of the economic benefits of his successful career as a professional tennis player, and according to the complainant, we would find ourselves facing a continuous crime that even today deprives him of access to all of his patrimony”.

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