The police visited the Generación ZOE headquarters based in western Venezuela. The complaint aims at Blanca Torres as director of the organization with roots in Venezuela.
The multilevel scheme funded by the Argentine Leonardo Cositorto, through the network of companies that made up Generación ZOE, keeps giving birth to legal complaints in Latin America. Now, Venezuela is the target.
In the country’s west, the Venezuelan police authorities started an operation in Trujillo, intending to search for evidence linked to the case in many buildings, including an office of Generación ZOE Venezuela based in Valera, a region located in the state.
One of the houses visited by the authorities got presumed to belong to citizen Blanca Torres, director of Generación ZOE with operations on Venezuelan soil, who got accused of encouraging the alleged scam throughout the entire nation, even with visits from Cositorto himself.
The investigation began after a collective complaint issued by dozens of victims before the Public Ministry, who claim that they invested in the project and have not received their promised profits. Police sources highlighted that the operation carried out in Trujillo got enabled by the Prosecutor’s Office 13 after receiving the legal complaint in the Capital.
The data highlighted that the agency would start a general investigation procedure, following articles 267 and 268 of the Organic Code of Criminal Procedure.
According to the statements made by the complainants, the promoters of Generación ZOE offered talks, conferences, trips, and meetings with other people in the areas of marketing, sales, and lifestyle. Still, they operated with a multilevel recruitment model described as a Ponzi scam archetype.
According to local outlets’ reports, those victims delivered more than 250 pages of evidence showing how they got attacked. The complainants are not only from the Valera, Boconó, and Trujillo areas in Trujillo but there are also victims from other parts of the country.
This situation occurs after the arrest of Cositorto, arrested a week ago in the Dominican Republic, while a fugitive from justice in his nation. On April 12, he received extradition to Argentina, where he will get charged with crimes of Illicit Association and Fraud.
After he arrives in Buenos Aires, Cositorto will get taken to the province of Córdoba, the town where his company got headquartered and where the court case is pending.
On his way out to be transferred to Córdoba, Cositorto briefly told the media: “we work and continue,” implying that his organization is still standing.
Cositorto started another project last March under a similar model to that of Generación ZOE, which got called Sunrise Coach.
After informing that Generación Zoe was dissolving, the new project requested investments of up to $ 3,600. Each asset will count on returns registered at 7.5%, a percentage almost parallel to ZOE.
By: Jenson Nuñez
