The power of the sect that wanted to capture Plácido Domingo and dazzled politicians and millionaires

• Scandal The sect with whose leaders Placido Domingo spoke

What do Bill Clinton, 28 US congressmen and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel have in common?

All were used by the Argentine sect that sought to seduce the tenor Plácido Domingo.

An organization that resembles the Russian Matrioshkas, those wooden dolls that hide an increasingly smaller one inside the previous one.

In the case of the sect, which was financed on the basis of psychological and sexual submission, they are Matrioshkas full of dangers and with surprises yet to be discovered.

"Those who managed this sect were very skilled ...", a man at the heart of the investigation explains to EL MUNDO, which has resulted in 19 detainees and eight fugitives so far:

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It was the result of an investigation that took years, and with the precedent of an attempt that failed in the 90s thanks to the skill and political connections of

, leader of the Buenos Aires Yoga School (EYBA).

The EYBA sect lasted for 36 years, and the first judge who tried to dismantle it,

faced an impeachment request in Parliament in 1993: Percowicz and his main aides had very good links with Argentine legislators.

And not only with them.

“The defense they used in 1993 was that they were being persecuted for being Jews.

They were even defended by United States congressmen," said the source of the investigation.

It was made clear in an official document

in October 2002: «It is known about the existence of anti-Semitic tendencies within some sectors of the Argentine Judiciary regarding the persecution of members of the Buenos Aires Yoga School.

Approximately 50 percent of the members of the Buenos Aires Yoga School are Jewish.

That persecution is exposed considering the case of the Buenos Aires Yoga School and the background of the bombings in Argentina against the Israelite Mutual Association and the Israeli Embassy that remain unresolved after more than six years.

Percowicz had no limits, neither in his audacity nor in his lack of scruples;

he convinced 28 congressmen from the Democratic Party that he was politically and religiously persecuted.

And that this persecution was related to the 1992 attacks on the

and the AMIA Jewish Mutual Fund in 1994, with a balance of 85 dead and more than 300 wounded.

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

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

Placido Domingo.

"My biggest mistake has been to remain silent for too long"

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"My biggest mistake has been to remain silent for too long"

The US Congressional document adds the following: “Congress staff traveled to Argentina to investigate the accusations of ideological and anti-Semitic persecution in the

(...).

President

has repeatedly urged the Government of Argentina to ensure that the case of the Buenos Aires Yoga School is resolved as quickly as possible (...) Numerous congressmen have written letters to Argentine authorities about the case of the Escuela de Yoga Buenos Aires and have never received a satisfactory answer».

When a yoga school in the extreme south of the planet acquires so much power, it is evident that resisting it is not easy.

Domingo seems to have achieved it, since

, although it is likely that he has given Percowicz and company some access to relevant figures.

It is also unclear if Domingo used the sexual services that wiretaps indicate he was offered.

The newspaper Clarín recalled this weekend how the main Argentine media received an eight-page dossier in 1994 entitled The

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History of an ideological persecution.

Percowicz's strategy is observed there: linking up with powerful figures, inviting them to give lectures at his school, taking photos with them and presenting himself as a victim of anti-Semitic persecution and thus preventing the success of any investigation.

Among those papers that the main Argentine newspaper rescued from its archive was an Order of

from the hands of the World Education Council with the following arguments: "His outstanding work as a relevant figure in Latin America contributing to world peace, to the understanding of the peoples and the cultural and educational elevation of the Nations».

The Argentine Pérez Esquivel,

for his preaching against the military dictatorship of his country, actively defended Percowicz and his School of Yoga for many years.

Percowicz, it is clear, knew how to establish links that would shield (and finance) his project.

But today detained, at 84 years old he spends his days in the

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If his perfect machinery found a brake, it is thanks to the police investigation, but also to the laws passed by the Argentine Congress, he once caught in the tangle of the sect

"In the more than 20 years that elapsed between the first trial and the new case, a series of criminal behaviors that did not previously appear in the legal norm were incorporated into the Penal Code," highlighted the country's other major newspaper, La Nación.

“When the

refused to testify, they were charged with seven crimes: trafficking in persons for the purpose of reduction to servitude, aggravated by coercion;

aggravated robbery, money laundering;

illicit association, illegal practice of medicine, irregular sale of medicines and influence peddling”.

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