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Santa Fe court sentences former police commissioner over illegal betting network

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A court in Reconquista, Santa Fe, sentenced former police commissioner Danilo Iván Barrientos to three years and two months in prison for operating and organising unauthorised gambling, among other offences. Judge Martín Gauna Chapero also imposed a lifetime ban on public office; the prosecution said the network operated in Fortín Olmos from November 2018 to November 2019.

The sentence shows the criminal and public-office consequences of operating an unauthorised betting network in Santa Fe.

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