Placido Domingo is involved in Argentina in the alleged sexual plot of a sect

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The alleged voice of

was multiplied for two days on Argentine television screens, although not to broadcast one of his performances:

that, under the façade of a school of yoga, he co-opted people to clear them of their belongings and even sexually subdue them.

And his voice is heard in conversations recorded by the Argentine Federal Police, which is investigating the case.

But that voice, is it your voice, is it Domingo's voice?

"We can confirm that

," an official source involved in the case told EL MUNDO.

"Those wiretaps are part of the investigation and were carried out on his last trip to Argentina."

This newspaper has tried to contact the artist's environment, but has not received a response.

Domingo, now 81 years old, performed at the Teatro Colón, the great lyrical stage in the center of Buenos Aires, on April 7 and 10

.

The police mega-operation to dismantle the sect -50 raids and 19 arrests- has been occupying space in the Argentine media for a week, but Sunday's news came days later.

The leader of the sect, Juan Percowicz, 84, is one of those arrested.

"Under the discourse of a philosophy that proclaimed

and 'seeking the development of happiness'", the organization "was dedicated to attracting people to incorporate them and reduce them to a situation of servitude and, in other cases, offer them 'medical' treatment in their 'clinics', with the fundamental purpose of obtaining money, influence and/or coverage for their leaders," the Federal Police explained in its statement.

"After almost

, the detectives were able to determine that the organization used its members to offer sexual relations to 'people of power', who were captured in bars and hotel lobbies (...). Several of its members constantly traveled to Uruguay and the United States, in order to carry out the same activities".

In the audios broadcast by the Argentine media and in the possession of

, the voice attributed to Domingo is heard talking about

, in conversation with a woman who is a member of the sect, who is referred to as "Mendy".

The sect had, on the ninth floor of one of its headquarters, a series of luxuriously decorated rooms intended for sexual intercourse.

In the audios, "Mendy" is heard talking to three different men: one is, say the sources of the investigation, the tenor, the other is Percowicz and the third is not identified.

To the latter, "Mendy" says:

, that is to say, that he is going to come to visit me. Because he is going home to New York and he remembered yesterday."

"Mendy" asks his interlocutor to organize the meeting.

In another audio, the woman speaks with the voice attributed to Domingo to coordinate the visit.

The Argentine receives instructions on how to avoid being seen when she goes to visit him in his hotel room: "

, we do it that way because my agents are going to go up to the room when I go up and They will stay on the same floor.

In another conversation, "Mendy" tells Percowicz that everything is on track: "He already called me (Domingo) and set up the matufia (trap) so that I would stay in the hotel without the agents realizing it."

"One of the main sources of financing was the sexual exploitation of some of its 'students', which in the jargon of the organization they called 'VIP geishado' or 'palomear', which consisted of sending them to 'have sexual encounters with people of high economic power to obtain money, power or influence", explained the newspaper "La Nación".

"His objective was

or people of power to 'obtain large sums of money for the organization'.

The researchers believe that the organization had recruited 'students' since at least 2004 and 'had a hierarchical and pyramidal structure in which approximately 179 students participated, distributed among its various offices located mainly in this city, and in Las Vegas, Chicago and New York.

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