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Placido Domingo, an 81-year-old famous Spanish tenor, was revealed to have been involved in a human trafficking and sexual exploitation criminal organization that sent the world into an uproar. During an Argentine police investigation into a large transnational criminal organization, it was reported that many members of the gang had masquerade themselves as upper-class elites with heads and faces, and at least three of them had also performed on the same stage with Domingo. What kind of criminal organization is this? How do they make celebrities a tool for them to increase their influence? What role did Domingo play in this?
Mysterious yoga school
A yoga school in Buenos Aires has been quietly operating for more than 30 years in a 10-story building in the heart of the city, and curiously, the school often hosts private parties but never takes a yoga class. The so-called female trainees often make group sex in front of a group of children, calling the leader Juan Percowicz an "angel" and saying that they came here in pursuit of "eternal happiness."
This is a transnational human trafficking and sexual exploitation organization disguised as a yoga school, controlled by criminal organizations, and a highly complete management model that incorporates the characteristics of cults and pyramid schemes: Perkovich is at the top of the pyramid of 7, followed by "Apostles" (level 6), "geniuses" (level 5), "students" (levels 4) and "human beings" (levels 1-3). Nearly 200 members pay between $200 and $10,000 a month to "upgrade," and Perkovic has the sole discretion to advance.
These women are forced into "slaves" after entering a "yoga school", and criminal organizations force students to sell themselves to support the organization. The organization also has "branches" in Las Vegas, Chicago, and New York, where customers are sent overnight to "customers" as long as they tell them which country they want to be in and when they want to have sex with these women. Criminal organizations earn about $500,000 a month and then launder their money through real estate agencies and charitable organization businesses.
The victims came from many countries, with the exception of Argentina, where the majority of victims were in the United States. According to official investigations, at least 7 Argentine women were recruited as teenagers and subjected to long-term sexual exploitation. The "yoga school" also repeatedly brainwashes female members: only members who have reached the seventh level of "spiritual evolution" can obtain "eternal reincarnation". If someone resists, they will be sent to a "clinic" to be forced to take psychotropic drugs, leaving them mentally weak and unconscious, and more easily controlled.
In fact, the Argentine judicial system is intimately familiar with Perkovic, having faced charges of the same crimes as he did now in 1993, but because of his ties to local politicians and international human rights groups, the case fell apart in three different courts. According to El Pas de Spain, a congressional delegation from the United States traveled to Argentina to demand the release of Perkovic and his men, calling them "victims of political persecution."
"After 30 years, it's time for Perkovich and his associates to face a just verdict." Inspector Ricardo Juri, head of the human trafficking unit of the Argentine Federal Police, told reporters that unlike 30 years ago, the organization has evolved from a yoga school into a criminal company with different parts and perfect division of functions, and they have very efficiently used hierarchical structures to expand their business. ”
Superb camouflage
Even more bizarre is the fact that many managers of this international criminal organization, which imprisons victims as sex slaves, disguise themselves as upper-class elites with heads and faces. As the investigation progressed, a number of celebrities were drawn into the case, including the famous Spanish tenor Placido Domingo, who was also revealed to have an affair with a criminal organization and had repeatedly spent money to have a relationship with a girl who had been tricked by the organization.
Argentine police said the "female cadets" of the "yoga school" were actually recruited to engage in sex transactions with "powerful people" and were tools used by criminal organizations in exchange for money and influence. In a recording of the phone call obtained by the police, Susana Mendelievich, an Argentine pianist and a member of the criminal group, discussed the appropriateness of meeting Domingo and relayed to another accomplice that she planned to make Domingo a spokesperson to attract fans to the organization.
It is reported that Domingo has been friends with the pianist who works as a top manager in the criminal organization for many years, and the two have also performed on the same stage. At least three of those identified by Argentine prosecutors as suspected of involvement in the crime have performed or collaborated with Domingo, including the novice soprano Veronica Loiacono, who sang for Domingo in 1996, and rubén González, a violinist who served as "principal" at the "yoga school."
In fact, there are early indications of Domingo's relationship with criminal gangs. At the Buenos Aires Concert in Domingo in 1996, Loiacono, González and others who appeared on the stage together showed their strength that did not match the stage. El Pas de Spain published articles criticizing The selection of music by Loiacono, Gonzalez and others that night as "inferior works", adding that "orchestral music tarnished the singing" and that Domingo and Loyacor's chorus was a "poorly performing duet".
Still active "bad artists"
This is not the first time Domingo has been embroiled in a sex scandal, as early as August 12, 2019, eight female singers and 1 dancer have accused that they have been harassed by Domingo in various forms over the past 30 years, multiple whistleblowers say their careers have been affected after rejecting Domingo, and more than 30 practitioners have said they have witnessed Domingo's inappropriate behavior.
And no one punished him for his unbridled harassment. A month after the first wave of allegations, 11 more women reported assault on Domingo. In 2020, the American Opera Union conducted an investigation that said the reports of multiple women were true. Domingo had to apologize publicly, resigned as the director of the Los Angeles Opera house in order to rest the matter, and the major opera houses in the United States canceled the performances they worked with him.
Although Domingo has long been discredited by sex scandals, it is true that dominance has been purchased for women controlled by criminal organizations on many occasions, and there is evidence that Domingo has had close ties with gang members for many years, but Domingo has not been prosecuted so far. An anonymous law enforcement official said there was no evidence that Domingo was a member of a criminal organization and that he was only a consumer of prostitution, which was not illegal in Argentina.
According to Domingo's personal website, he doesn't seem to have been affected in any way, and in recent months he has also performed in Europe, Latin America and the Middle East, and is currently touring Mexico. Not breaking the law doesn't mean there is no violation of secular morality, and on whether consumers should boycott the performances of scandal-ridden musicians, one music critic noted: "All I can say is that everyone is responsible for their actions." Your consumption will constitute the world you want. ”
News sources: Spanish national newspaper, The Associated Press, some of the pictures come from the Internet
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