Conviction New religious movements Guru-led movement or ashram La Matanza, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina · 2024

Abba Krishna: four convictions for aggravated human trafficking

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Appellate history

2025-04-29

Federal prosecutors and the public victims' defender sought liquidation of forfeited property to fund the court-ordered reparations. The public source reports post-judgment enforcement, not an appellate merits ruling.

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

secondary participants in an unrecognized cult, spiritual-guidance facilitators

Organization

Abba Krishna

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This is the archive's application of its published inclusion test. The cited record appears below.

The cited record identifies promised spiritual advancement, devotional labor, economic control, isolation, relationship approval, and chakra and tantric-sex claims as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is secondary participants in an unrecognized cult and spiritual-guidance facilitators.

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Evidence structure

Proceedings

2024-07-03 · abbreviated judgment and sentence

Federal Oral Criminal Court No. 2 of San Martín, Argentina. The court sentenced Francisco Aurelio Pugliese, Leonardo Abel Gandarinho, Carina Lorena Cardoso and Lisa Beatriz Baissetto to four years in prison as secondary participants in aggravated trafficking involving eight victims, one of whom was under eighteen at the time.

Documented coercion mechanisms

promised spiritual advancement
devotional labor
economic control
isolation
relationship approval
chakra and tantric-sex claims

Cited record

Sources

prosecuting authority judgment report Ministerio Público Fiscal de la Nación, 'San Martín: en un juicio abreviado, condenaron a cuatro miembros de una secta a cuatro años de prisión por trata de personas agravada' (July 8, 2024).: Argentina's federal prosecution service records the four convictions, sentences, eight victims, reparations and forfeitures. It describes recruitment through spiritual guidance, promised advancement through service and donations, isolation, economic and relationship control, and sexual conduct presented as a spiritual or chakra-opening path.
prosecuting authority post judgment enforcement Ministerio Público Fiscal de la Nación, 'San Martín: solicitaron la liquidación de los bienes decomisados a cuatro miembros de una secta condenados por trata de personas para reparar a sus víctimas' (Apr. 30, 2025).: The federal prosecution service records the post-judgment request to liquidate forfeited property for reparations and restates the defendants' secondary-participant convictions and the July 3, 2024 judgment.

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Source and tier basis: https://www.fiscales.gob.ar/trata/san-martin-en-un-juicio-abreviado-condenaron-a-cuatro-miembros-de-una-secta-a-cuatro-anos-de-prision-por-trata-de-personas-agravada/ Corpus classification: prosecuting-authority; evidentiary role: judgment-report. SHA-256 f3b7ac2b67e8b11735458eae82367b6a257272b57c961c4019b88ebc0b6f742a
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Source and tier basis: https://www.fiscales.gob.ar/trata/san-martin-solicitaron-la-liquidacion-de-los-bienes-decomisados-a-cuatro-miembros-de-una-secta-condenados-por-trata-de-personas-para-reparar-a-sus-victimas/ Corpus classification: prosecuting-authority; evidentiary role: post-judgment-enforcement. SHA-256 89efc311b30123ef13ae1cb9b7b38f2d0784e8bd3f902e5ba74a59eeb9312880
Retrieval: 2026-07-20 · Preserved; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger

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