John Horace Homs is news thanks to his daughter, Camilathe former partner of the Argentine soccer player Rodrigo DePaul (currently in a relationship with Tiny Stoesell. And in the last hours she became relevant because it was learned that it was confirmed that she had a daughter out of wedlock, Chiara, who came to light after conducting a DNA. But his name became known in 2017, when one of the most important and historical unionists in Argentina was arrested.
When the arrest of Juan Pablo “Pata” Medinain September 2017, it was quite a shock for John Horace Homs. However, his astonishment was short-lived, and before the end of Tuesday the 26th of the event, already a fugitive from Justice, he notified his lawyer that he wanted to start negotiating his delivery. he always helpful Ferdinand Mocking spoke the next day with the people of the Federal Court of Quilmes, that depends on Luis Armella: his agreed submission to the Justice, on the first Monday of October, only surprised his friends in Mendoza, to whom he sold a reputation as an irreproachable businessman. At the same time, NOTICIAS told of the heavy curtain behind Abril Catering, Holms’ venture and supposed front for trade unionist Medina’s dark businesses.
The full note published in September 2017:
If anyone came across Homs until a few weeks ago, they would have come across the figure of a confident man, canchero, with the halo of prestige that his demeanor gave him. self-made man. The popularity that he dragged in Mendoza – where he spent half of his days for ten years with his partner, the sensual nutritionist Gabriela Bathsheba Messelos– It was that of someone who from scratch put together a company that came to have 160 employees, branches throughout the country, 40 high-end cars, a helicopter, a plane, for more than ten trucks, a ship and a billing, only blank, of 20 million pesos so far this year. It seemed too good to be true.
Homs sweet Homs.
The last days of September were moved for the exclusive country La Bajada, in the town of Guaymallén, Mendoza. The charming complex, which has tennis courts, heated swimming pools, an internal shopping mall, spa, sauna and 24-hour guard, was revolutionized when members of Federal Police -who do not usually visit the bubble in which the Mendoza jet set lives- broke into the place to search the house where Homs lived with messelos and their little son. They did not find anyone, since the businessman was preparing his delivery and his partner took refuge in the warmth of his family.
The temperature, between the Messelos, it is high: her acquaintances say that Gabriela’s intimates boil with anger against Homs, for having put the supposedly blameless nutritionist in a national scandal. According to this version, neither her partner nor her entourage were aware of the dark activities in Homs. “It was a bucket of cold water,” they repeat. The theory seems hard to believe. The girlfriend, with whom Homs fell in love when he found her working in a nutrition house inside a Mendoza shopping mall, was his partner at H Pizza, a gigantic 600-square-meter pizzeria in his native province, and, apparently, in the Pulpería de la Filomena, another Messelos undertaking. In Justice they also suspect that Homs put the capital for the assembly of the gym PowerZonea project of the bride that did not last long.
Unlike messelos, that for now he does not have a formal complaint against him –although it could arrive at any moment–, which is wanted by the investigation led by the prosecutor Silvia Cavallo is Liliana Frontán, the wife of Homs, with whom she is only separated in fact. She was the other founding partner of Abril Catering, and remains a fugitive, although she would also be negotiating her surrender. The family stays together.
Between friends
The modus operandi by which Homs allegedly laundered the Medina’s money is, as presented in court, so crude that it is surprising that it took years to realize it. There is intermingling of goods: a Toyota Hilux SW4, that it was owned by Abril Catering and that Medina and his wife, Fabiola Garcia, they had permission to use, and a Peugot 508 that was owned by the trade unionist, with a blue card for Homs, and that ended up being bought by the catering company years later. There are also movements of money made, in an unusual way, through banks: in 2013, the company Abril transferred 1 million pesos to Rey del Cielo –another catering that was born in that year, created by the son of the couple of Medina, in an attempt by the trade unionist to monopolize the money route–, and between 2014 and 2015, the Homs enterprise would spend another 6 million. In addition, there are several testimonies that reveal that the people of Medina “squeezed” the construction companies that were carrying out works in the area of influence of the “Pata” so that they would only hire Abril Catering (later the undertakings of the Medina family would be added).
For now, Homs remains in custody, charged with money laundering and financial intermediation, with which he could face up to ten years in prison. At the close of this edition, the businessman had voluntarily given an investigative statement, where he claimed to be innocent, did not accept questions and slipped the idea that he had long ago wanted to leave Abril Catering due to alleged pressure from the Wow. In the bad ones much more?
by RN
