An inspector from the Business Licensing area of the Municipality of Córdoba, led by Daniel Passerini, was arrested this Wednesday for alleged extortion schemes against merchants in the Capital. The individual is Félix César Escobar Rivarola, 49 years old, whose arrest was ordered by prosecutor Guillermo González.
The complaint was filed by Ezequiel Hormaeche, executive director of the Municipal Oversight and Control Agency. Among municipal employees, a message circulated labeling Escobar Rivarola as someone who already had internal complaints for various incidents, to the point that posters were put up against him inside the 6 de Julio Palace.
According to the investigation, Escobar Rivarola allegedly demanded successive sums of money from two merchants to allow their licensing processes to advance, under the threat of imposing arbitrary closures or blocking their files if they did not agree to the payment.
