Pablo Luciano Rutz. ¿Verdad, manipuación o trauma?

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:23]For more than a decade, a family from Montegrande, Argentina, lived with a devastating accusation. Ludmila Rus Salaverry publicly denounced that her father, Pablo Luciano Rut, sexually abused her from the age of 5 until approximately 15. According to her account, the attacks allegedly occurred inside her own home, during vacations, and in various family spaces.

[00:00:51]He even claimed to have recorded one of the last episodes before reporting it.

[00:00:57]The case deeply impacted Argentine public opinion and in May 2022 a popular jury declared Pablo Luciano Ruts guilty and subsequently the oral criminal court number 9 of Lomas de Zamora, sentenced him to 20 years in prison for aggravated sexual abuse with access. But years later, the case continues to divide the family and generate controversy. While Nicole maintains to this day that her story is the truth and that her accusations claim she lived through 10 years of hell, other family members assert that the accusations were false and that there were psychological evaluations, audio recordings, and other elements that directly challenged her credibility and that were not considered in this trial. Today we echo the truth that Pablo shouts from his confinement, the one who says he is innocent and the victim of a fictitious story that prevailed over the scientific evidence presented in the trial.

[00:02:04]How do you prove something that never happened? How do you convince the world that it 's not the monster it's described as?

[00:02:12]Today we will speak not from a file, but from the most painful place for a man. that of a father who claims to have been unjustly accused by his own daughter. Stay until the end to learn about this unfortunate case firsthand, because here we don't just tell the story, we listen to its protagonists. Welcome to the commissioner's office.

[00:02:51]Well, we're on air now. Good evening everyone from Chile, from Santiago. Today we are in contact, aren't we?, with Luciano Rut's family and we are also in contact with him.

[00:03:02]Note that we are also in contact with him, so he will be giving us some information directly from his place of confinement. But before we begin, I want to thank two new members of our community who are helping us share this content, contributing a small amount every month, which helps us a lot. So Julia Prieto, who joined about a day ago, and Patricia Hogando who returned. Ah, Patricia was with us and then she stopped being a collaborator and now she's rejoining this work project, which we are very grateful for, we always appreciate the support of each and every one of you. Well, today we have a lot to talk about, so I don't want to waste time on the presentation. I want to leave you with Luciano's sister, Miss Natalia Ruts, who is with us. How are you, Natalia? Good evening, welcome to the commissioner.

[00:04:01]Hello good evening.

[00:04:04]Good evening everyone. I 've been reading the information they sent us, which is a lot of information.

[00:04:11]This case has really divided public opinion in Argentina, because many people initially believed everything your niece said, right? And now they're trying to reverse what happened. I have also spoken with your brother about it from Argentina and the truth is that it is a dangerous case. How have you experienced it as a family?

[00:04:38]Uh, ugh, I don't know how to explain it. The truth is that it is something painful for both my brother and all the members of the family.

[00:04:48]People, well, obviously they're divided; those who know us, many people support us. Obviously they know who we are, but many people obviously haven't listened to us in any way to explain that some things weren't like that, and many people who knew gave us their support because they knew what we were like as a family and they knew my brother. Basically, it devastated us.

[00:05:22]Of course, of course, because how old was your niece when she reported this alleged incident? Well, let's see, legally speaking, we can't say "alleged" because this brother is supposedly convicted, therefore, we can't say "alleged" legally speaking if he has reached an unjust conviction or not regarding the case. But I'm still going to use the term "alleged" because obviously today we're giving a platform to your version, specifically his. When did they think, when would these alleged abuses have started?

[00:05:57]Look, she supposedly, precisely, supposedly, all this started when she was between 14, almost 15 years old, when she made the complaint, right? She corroborated the complaint using her older brother, but she contradicted herself on several occasions.

[00:06:17]First she said five, then she said 10, then she said 13. Uh, obviously in the Gessel chamber examinations, uh, it was said that, I mean, it came out that she was a fabulist.

[00:06:35]And well, in the medical studies it turned out that the girl is a virgin, they did n't find any trace, no trace of any kind, no genetics, no hair, nothing, I don't know, nothing that could say that the girl had been abused, she had no signs of having been abused, or mistreated, neither in the past nor recently up to that moment, right?

[00:07:07]Yes. We, as production staff, received a portion of that program, of that expertise, and indeed it appears, but it says absolutely nothing. These are scientific analyses that were not carried out. Therefore, this expert opinion was not considered in the trial.

[00:07:22]No, nothing. Moreover, they took certain things for granted, I mean, the trial prosecutor, who was the one who directly accused him of things that hadn't even happened, that he had penetrated her, sorry, the word, anally. That said, when the girl, I mean, was, I mean, the records say so, I mean, the police, the doctors say so, and even the psychologists, I mean, let's see, uh, they took it for granted that no, she wasn't an abused girl, she didn't fit the profile of an abused girl.

[00:08:02]Among the things I heard, because, well, there's a person who appears on a television program talking about how the house had bars on the windows, and what's it called? Electricity so that she could n't escape, so that she appears giving a version on television, I mean, a supposed neighbor.

[00:08:25]Yes, yes, yes.

[00:08:28]Basically, nobody knows that neighbor.

[00:08:30]Nobody knows the one who was on TV. My brother owned a warehouse, that is, he had an accident many years ago, which disabled him in some physical ways.

[00:08:42]So he set up, let's say, a family business in the house, which was a warehouse, a lot of people went to buy things, people were coming in and out of the house all the time because it's a warehouse, right? I mean, let's see.

[00:08:59]Well, and they had gone on vacation for a while, they had gone to the coast for a month, uh, and my brother, let's see, bars, he had bars, I don't know where they had the bars, on the windows, for security reasons, basically. Let's see, clearly. Let's see, and then I don't know what the fence is about, for example, it came out that it said they were putting up an electric fence. That 's a lie, basically because there was never an electric fence. If there was anything going on at any point, it was because my brother, for example, when he went on vacation, did leave the house closed, the warehouse closed, but we all live on the same block, so we could see each other's houses. So, what electric fence was he talking about? No, there wasn't any of that, was there? Aside from that, when you say it was a family business, as we say here in Chile, it was a real family business, because he would bring the vegetables, he would travel at night to get them, his wife also worked there, his son also worked there, and you see, it really was that, it was a family business. What happens that day when all this explodes?

[00:10:23]The specialists in this type of crime call it devilation. Your brother told us that in an audio recording that I want us to listen to, a relatively short audio recording. What does he say?

[00:10:32]What happened that day?

[00:10:35]To the audience, my name is Pablo Luciano Rina, the famous callus of the house of horrors in Monterande.

[00:10:42]The father was sentenced to 20 years.

[00:10:45]My situation began in 2018 with my daughter Nicole Rut Salaberry.

[00:10:51]At that time I was 14 years old, I had identified her. That her maternal grandmother had introduced her to a male, Cristian Sebastián Pacheco, a 35-year-old man, a relationship that he, as a father, did not allow.

[00:11:06]I am a merchant, I had a business in the town of Esteban Echeverría Monterande, where I worked, I had a butcher shop, I worked together with my wife and my children, a family micro-enterprise.

[00:11:20]The situation of my daughter Nicole along with my son, well, they had night out, they went out while that was seen hidden with this male, which created a lot of conflict within the family because I did not allow it, I could not allow it as a father.

[00:11:35]Uh, this whole situation culminated in the year 2019, on February 6th.

[00:11:45]That day I had the supermarket; the day before I had gone to the wholesalers, to the central restocking markets, which many of us know here in Argentina operate at night for the big merchants, buying vegetables, meat, all those things.

[00:12:02]Upon my return the next day, February 6th, I arrived at 11 am. My dad, a client and neighbor, was there.

[00:12:11]I unloaded the truck; it was a normal workday.

[00:12:14]At 11:30 in the morning I sent my daughter to the house of one of her maternal grandmothers, who is on my mother Bemba's side.

[00:12:19]We all live on the same block. Uh, my mother-in-law also lives on the corner, my mom lives in between, and I live on a corner before the supermarkets in front of a technical plaza.

[00:12:30]Uh, a normal day, nothing to worry about.

[00:12:33]I worked in my butcher shop section, my wife was at the till, my children were restocking the merchandise on the shelf, my dad was inside, I had a caretaker, Gustavo Ojeda, who was the one who looked after the house for me. This usually happens before the market closes; it starts before the market closes. By then, when I had returned, my son had gone to get his hair cut. He arrives around 11:40 in the morning, scared, looking for his sister. I was looking for where he was.

[00:13:02]The whole family group was present inside the store working and he left again without any problem. When the market closes, our daughter leaves, she disappears.

[00:13:17]My wife and I didn't know anything about it.

[00:13:19]We went to rest because we were exhausted from working all night.

[00:13:24]When I woke up at 5:15 in the afternoon, 4 hours had already passed, I called my daughter and she was not inside my house. My younger children, I don't know, tell us what he had done to his sister. He had locked the bedroom door, and he leaves, he goes to the house of his maternal grandmother, Ana Semmira Centurión, who had introduced the male.

[00:13:46]Uh, already informed by my younger children, Kiara Brisa Rut and Jan Rut, who was present at all times along with her sister. The whole group was present. They tell a very strange story. We went outside and my wife was asking me to please go and pick up her daughter from her grandmother's house.

[00:14:05]Uh, this grandmother, well, she has a history that always scared my wife and me because they are people of ill repute. We had few relationships.

[00:14:14]Uh, we took care of, well, I took care of working, of raising my family, right? Each one has his own family.

[00:14:21]Uh, the thing is, I went outside, I spoke with my neighbor who was at the door, who was the landlord, and he told me if he saw my daughter. He told me that she got on the motorcycle leaving her maternal grandmother's house, got on her brother's motorcycle and headed towards the avenue, and without knowing where we were, because we didn't know where my daughter was, we didn't know anything about all this.

[00:14:42]And I told my wife that I was going out to get soda, while my dad, who also has the house next door, was looking for Nicole. My neighbor was there, we were, almost all the neighbors were coming out because it was strange. He went into my mother-in-law's house and that's what caught the neighbors' attention. I get into my truck and when I get out of my truck, 200 meters away the police stop me and accuse me of having stolen a damn gun, right? And well, I had gotten sick because I was the owner. I am stopped by his brother, whose name was Cristian Omar Pacheco, who is the brother of Cristian Sebastián Pacheco. They are all old friends of my mother-in-law.

[00:15:28]And then they take me to the police station, the official one, they take me directly there.

[00:15:34]That's the first audio. He's answering us now because he's watching the program and he says, uh, before going on vacation, he says, I'm going to ask about the cable issues, sorry. He says, "Before going on vacation, Nicole, Diego, and Leonel were the ones who put electrical wires in the window and door. Who can testify to that?" It is Diego, who is the nephew who can attest and testify to what they put and what Leonel declared in the trial. That's why they had cable. They put it there for security reasons, right? So that it does n't start.

[00:16:10]Clear. Sure, because, well, we, well, like everywhere here, right? For example, I don't know, I also had one at one point and then I took it down because, well, you become aware of the kids, this and that, but of course, it's like they're on top of the wall, there's like a dividing wall and someone had broken into her house at one point through the back where they had put up that fence, but it said danger, electric fence, but in reality it didn't have electricity, it was, I mean, it didn't have it, the sign just said that, you know? And that was for many, many years.

[00:16:49]Well, but whether they exist or not is not absolutely a security issue.

[00:16:54]Now, of course, for the sake of security, what did you know about this relationship with this person who is 30 years older, or at least 20 years older, something like that, eh, about her? How old was she? I was 14, something like that.

[00:17:08]Uh, between 14, almost 15.

[00:17:11]This one, and this man, well, uh, I didn't know anything until that moment. I didn't know anything until that moment when all this mess broke out. Basically, I didn't know anything. I knew my brother argued with her a lot.

[00:17:25]Uh, I saw her as a normal girl who went dancing, who, you know, went out with her brothers, her cousins, uh, she was always with us, who were the family, the, you know, with the uncles, uh, basically she declared, of course, there she is with her friends at the bowling alley, the complainant, this, the brother, this, well, there are other photos that also, well, we haven't shown them because we don't want to.

[00:17:54]There she is in a group, uh, that went on a kind of church trip with a church that she said she didn't go out with anyone or that she didn't deal with people. She said she always claimed she didn't have social media, and I have photos of her on social media that she said she never had anything on, and I don't know if that's the little material you have, but I have photos of her, lots of photos of her going out to clubs, with groups of friends, and many things. So, yes, indeed, if he knew if she could go out. Now, the figure of the maternal grandmother is crucial in this story. Apparently, from everything I've read, I get the impression that she has something to do with this story and with what's being done against your brother, because it seems like something very elaborate for his age, and apparently she's the one behind it. What do you know about that?

[00:19:05]Whose? Who are you talking about?

[00:19:07]From your niece's maternal grandmother.

[00:19:13]Well, yes, because, look, supposedly this started when this whole situation began, which supposedly had already started a month before they went to the coast, right? They went on vacation to the coast, they were there for a month, I mean, supposedly she tells her maternal grandmother about it and supposedly, because I always say supposedly because here everything, I mean, for me it's nothing real, huh?

[00:19:42]And she grabbed it, told her grandmother, and the grandmother said, look, if your granddaughter tells you as a father or grandfather that she is being abused by her father, you're not going to do anything about it, are you?

[00:19:57]Clear.

[00:19:59]Uh, you do it immediately. So, she expected them to go on vacation, right? They went on vacation when they came, of course, they were looking, waiting for the moment to make the perfect plan, you know what I mean? Because that's how I see it, you understand? She was there at the time, when she came back, it was right away, they were already with the Pachecos, I know the Pachecos, I live near them, I live close by and I met them through this because although I live close by, I had never had any contact with them and well, they are all police officers, commissioners, well, they have those things of instilling things in the minors, right? How to do certain things to get rid of, say, the parents or certain things because they have kept properties.

[00:20:58]Ah, they are healthy, they are good people.

[00:21:03]Yes, but there are quite a few.

[00:21:05]Yes. And well, and also, uh, there are drug-related things in the background, uh, they've paid with drugs.

[00:21:13]Uh, well, and the case was also framed with drugs because of my brother.

[00:21:18]My nephew says so in one of the audios, he tells it and I have proof of it.

[00:21:23]Hero, they arrest your brother that day and the ordeal begins for all of you.

[00:21:30]How did the arrest go? According to what your brother says, the arrest happened this way. They arrested me at 5:30 in the afternoon, maybe a little later, on board my truck, 200 meters from my house, arrested for allegedly robbing at gunpoint, and they took me to the DDI. In that place I meet Soria, the father-in-law of my sister-in-law Yamila Salaverry. They wanted to have a procedural record signed.

[00:21:58]I am a man who has an education, I read and I read well, I read quickly and there were false words that made me hounded when I ran a red light, they even went so far as to sign me. Well, they beat me up there for not signing the document, a document in the minutes that they wanted me to sign at all costs.

[00:22:22]And well, that's where it's unbalanced. There was a disagreement there between the inmates I had housed inside a cell, there were 15 of them that day, on February 6, 2019, they asked that I be taken out, they housed me in a mailbox. There I received threats that because I messed with the commissioner's brother, they were going to kill me, they were going to kill my family. And well, then the days that passed began to show that my sister, well, my sister started to be followed and scared, some police officers tried to stab her.

[00:22:53]Natalia, I am being taken to testify on the date of February 8th, while inside the judicial town of Monterande, of the UFI 3 of Monterrenda.

[00:23:03]The court would be for questioning.

[00:23:07]Uh, they leave me inside a cell. I was with another inmate, one of the security guards came in and hit me on the head with something hard, like an iron knuckle duster. He had something in his hand that I didn't see because, well, just then an inmate said to me, "Be careful, because when I turn around they'll hit me." And then, well, I lost my mind, I lost everything. I finished the Evaperón in the hospital.

[00:23:31]When they recovered the Eva Perón, uh, well, the police were photographing me, telling me I was going to be famous, and that's when they started accusing me of being a rapist because supposedly later they told me I had raped my son, then they changed the charge to that I had raped my daughter, they started putting that case against me.

[00:23:53]And well, from there I was transferred to the prison unit. In the prison unit where I was detained, a few days later, I contacted my family and there, well, my wife was there, my wife, my son and Nicole attended to me. I asked him why they had reported me and were extorting me, asking me for money, the truck, cash, that I give them all my things. And well, they filed a complaint against me, without denying it, without... I suppose it must be to get rid of the father because they just wanted to mess around. In other words, my son wanted to mess around in my house, they wanted to do what they wanted, and he told me that if I didn't give them what they asked for, they would keep lying until I got 35 years in prison or died in prison. And the truth is, a situation like this is difficult for me because, well, it's something that's a punishment from one's own children.

[00:24:47]And well, that's where the terrible situation began. Um, my wife got into a fight with her, she got into a fight with her sister because they overheard this conversation.

[00:24:56]Everyone was there, we were all there, uh, I have the audio recordings, they're recorded there. My son, as my son Leonel recounts, they were asking me for money, my daughter was asking me for it, uh, and when I said no, well, the accusations started. They went to the press, uh, they actively went to all the media outlets to accuse me of things I did n't do, things I didn't commit.

[00:25:19]And my children... The whole family group was present inside the house and they accused me of rape while I was with my wife, I mean, if that were the case, we were two adults and they accused me. They focused on the prosecution's accusation, and as a man they took away my rights, they didn't investigate me, they didn't allow me to testify.

[00:25:39]Uh, I hired a lawyer because I'm not from the legal field, and the lawyer, well, she ended up betraying me; she didn't want to talk to me. Uh, I had provided him with the evidence, audio. I already had it by March 28, 2019.

[00:25:51]My son had opened up, he had confessed the whole situation. He told me that they had been planning it for some time, that his sister had told him at the coastal party on vacation, that she had spoken with her uncle, they went to a villa, they bought Honduga and they paid someone near a prosecutor's office, a certain certain person, who supposedly had the authority to arrange it within the prosecutor's office to frame me, to fabricate the crime of gender violence and convict me. And well, they did this to me, he started to confess, he filed the complaint, they made a fake modified video, my son told me that he handed it over. He was the one who reported me, it was my son Leonel, not my daughter, but my son Leonel.

[00:26:29]And then they changed the cover sheet, they put my daughter on it and well, that's where the whole legal process began that has taken away all my rights. They didn't allow me to testify, they did n't allow me to provide evidence, they built the case on their own grounds alone. There's nothing for me. The lawyer I hired told me that, well, nothing, this is something that many people risk when you're accused of gender-related issues, that the lawyer can be bought off, and today here in Argentina most lawyers are politically indoctrinated, they maintain their political position based on their money and status, and it doesn't matter if they have to destroy a human being's life. I gave my lawyer the evidence, I gave her everything, she already knew everything and yet she betrayed me. I went to a trial, they took me to a public people's trial, which I didn't want. They took me to the hearing, I was with my lawyer, I asked, uh, the judge's secretary attended to me, I told him, "Please, I want my official defense attorney because I don't know the lawyer, I hired her, but she never came to see me in jail. That is, she doesn't accept my evidence, she doesn't accept anything." And well, from there they told me that there was a supposed law here in Argentina. The court itself lied to me, as did the prosecutor Marcela Dimundo, along with a lawyer, saying there was a supposed law that prohibited me from choosing because I was accused of gender-based violence, thus depriving me of my right to choose. I had no choice and I am not a legal person; I am educated, but I am not someone who is instructed in the law every day.

[00:27:58]And they told me that if I hadn't signed, three judges would arrest me and give me double the year's sentence. We started arguing, I wanted to speak to the judge and unfortunately, well, after the hearing I ended up receiving a threat from the lawyer. My dad was called and told that the judge was angry with me for exceeding the defense that if I didn't shut my mouth he was going to give me 15 more years in addition to the 20 that were on the cover sheet, simply because of the cover sheet and there is no content.

[00:28:30]Hey, but what your brother is saying is really intense, because they set up the whole procedure and the whole process first for their son. I mean, I'm not going to go into detail about what's happening to you, but yes, indeed, the son is the one who puts all this together in the first place.

[00:28:50]He was involved in drug-related matters.

[00:28:52]How was it?

[00:28:53]Yes. Um, look, from what I understand, the boys were manipulated, right?

[00:29:02]Uh, the guys, there was also a drug thing there, and I don't know those people, I'm unaware of them, right? I have n't had any dealings with them.

[00:29:13]And I know that, like I said, they're brothers, I mean, they're police officers, and they're like brothers, they're a gang.

[00:29:23]which they basically call the Smurfs.

[00:29:27]Uh, and well, and among them, I mean, let's see, uh, they put together, let's say, to get rid of people, even though the kids wanted freedom, a certain freedom, that my brother allowed some things, there were things he didn't, no, no, and so it's like they use the kids, but there are also adults involved in this, you know? Clear.

[00:29:52]So, sometimes, when you say to the boys, you might think, "Okay, look, I don't understand, there are things I can't answer because I don't know them. For example, he tells me, 'He talks about people I don't know, you know what I mean?'

[00:30:11]No, no, don't worry about that.

[00:30:12]But look, there's something interesting he says, and your brother says, ' My son confessed, my son clearly said that all of this had been set up.'"

[00:30:25]It had been a lie, hadn't it? Yes of course.

[00:30:28]My nephew, about two weeks later, maybe a month later, looked for me and said, "Auntie, I want to talk to you." I didn't want to distance myself from my family, from my dad and my mom, because my mom had suffered a violent attack.

[00:30:41]My dad had been shot at. Well, we had been through a lot in a very short time. They had set our truck on fire. There had been, I mean, a terrible chase involving journalists, a lot of things, police officers who weren't really police officers because they were supposed to be protecting us, but because they were police officers who wanted to hurt us, they wanted to hurt us as a family. I mean, they were working for this guy Pacheco, right?

[00:31:13]All of this was basically part of that gang.

[00:31:20]And well, how does this happen? My nephew calls me, asks me to meet him in a plaza, and shows me how he had made the video. He shows it to me, and I just stare. I mean, I went over, I mean, obviously I did n't want to go over because I was scared, not because... Look, I know who he was with, but it was because he kept saying to me, "Auntie, I want to talk to you." Because he found out the forensic tests had come back negative. Supposedly, he said he felt bad because he believed his sister, that he'd been used, and that by the time he realized it, it was all over. He thought they were just going to arrest him and that's it, and that it would only be a couple of hours. And when he showed me how Nicole supposedly made the video, I was stunned and I said, "Well, Leonel, if that's the case, I'll take you to the police station myself, and you can recant and explain everything." "Nobody wanted to take our complaint." Well, it took a year and a half for them to finally take his complaint. A year and a half, right? Because nobody wanted to take it.

[00:32:39]Things, things are so strange.

[00:32:43]Yes, go on, go on, sorry. Uh, well, uh, a year and a half passed before they could finally take his complaint, basically.

[00:32:54]And what's more, when he sat down at the trial, which was the trial, where my brother had no defense at all, it was a farce, basically, for me it was a farce because, well, now I'll explain that to you, but he, my nephew, said everything in detail until the prosecutor, uh, the prosecutor, let's say, on the other side, uh, was threatening, threatening my sister-in-law at that moment. At that moment, she was threatening to take the children away from her and she wasn't siding with the girl, let's say, with Nicole, uh, that she was going to take the children away, that, I mean, look, that she was going to take the two youngest ones away because my brother has four children, that she was going to to take the two minors out, or that they were going to lock her up too.

[00:33:47]Uh, uh, Leonel told everything, he said it was a lie. He had fabricated the case, he said, he named everyone, everyone by name.

[00:34:00]And his statement wasn't taken into account. My sister-in-law got the lawyer too.

[00:34:07]Uh, it happens that she, according to her, I don't understand from her words, she, uh, when they made her sign a paper they made up, uh, it says, "You reported this."

[00:34:22]Yes, but she explained that it was supposedly out of fear because they had told her they were going to take the two youngest children away. She said, "Yes, I signed that." "There's nothing more to say," he told her. I mean, in the case they had stated, they had stated that my brother beat her, that she suffered physical abuse, violence, well, all kinds of abuse. They accused my brother of breaking bricks with his bare hands, of being a monstrous person, of intimidating the kids with different acts, right? Like locking them up and stuff like that, I mean, excuse me, Natalia, but when they arrested him, they were trying to find anything to justify a sentence like this, anything, but your nephew, your nephew said what you just said and he recorded it, and here we have it so we can all hear it from the person who started this whole process. And what did he end up saying? Let's listen, please, because it's extremely important and this wasn't considered in the trial. Listen. I was going to do something. I never thought you were going to end up in jail.

[00:35:34]Then Nicole told me that the She took her to the cemetery, where her friend lived, and I don't know what else. I didn't even know the guy's house or Pacha's. So I took her there, I left her there. I went back to the workshop. From there, the workshop took me to talk to a guy named Ojito Elías at the police station, and I told the police the whole situation.

[00:35:52]And then Nicole started getting psychological treatment, right? And you ended up in jail there.

[00:35:57]However, your mom told the police when you got out, man. She didn't tell them you were getting out, the cops didn't even know.

[00:36:04]Darío, Elías, Tamara, but especially the ones who are completely to blame for everything are Pacha and Tamara. Tamara and Ana are the two who are to blame because they were the ones who were giving Nicole psychological treatment, and they were the bad guys, you know?

[00:36:22]And well, at no point did they tell me, "No, your dad was there for about 30 years." No, however, when they said you were going to get out, they said you were going to... To get out on bail, Elias had already grabbed the boys and was about to leave, he was about to leave, he was going to go to the countryside, somewhere else, when they said you were going to get out on bail. I still knew it was all a lie, all this when it was over, when Nicole, later alone, told me that I was going to die with the guilt, that I was going to die with the guilt, and she smashed a glass from a bottle over my neck, the one Mom had hit me with, all that mess. And then I gradually found out that it was all a lie. Then when the two Gessel chambers came, the two Gessel chambers showed that Nicole was lying, that's when it all clicked, and that's when they screwed me over because they had set everything up to put you in jail, and well, and even now I'm hearing him answer that properly because I don't really know how things went down, man.

[00:37:25]Uh, the only thing I can tell you is that I got up Just like you did during siesta time. You went to look for the girl because she wasn't there. We even went looking for her, from here to my mom's house and to yours. And after that, I do n't know anything else, man. The only thing I said was that I barely said anything. And I told her, I don't know what my sister told me, I always used that as an excuse. I went to testify, I lied, even Nicole wasn't telling me, and that's it. It's the same thing when Nicole tried to get involved. She came to the house, she came with Mom, and I remember very clearly that Nicole said, uh, Mom told me, "It came out that your sister was never raped." And that's when I said, boom, this girl lied because Nicole had told me that you abused her when she was five, then you abused her when she was ten, then you used her, that you started abusing her when she was thirteen, and when she told me I said that she wasn't abused, "Nothing, that's it." " This stupid girl lied to me." And that's when my face completely changed, man. And the next day everything fell apart. No, the next day everything fell apart. Of course. Well, they definitely orchestrated all of that. Now, the million-dollar question is, why did your niece orchestrate all of this? What was her objective? To keep the money, to keep the place, to keep everything.

[00:38:54]Look, I can show you a lot of things. The only thing I do know is that, like them, I know that, let's see, these people I was telling you about, this Pache Checheco family, unfortunately they told me not to name them, but I have to name them because otherwise, how do I name them?

[00:39:15]Of course. So, they were dedicated to taking over properties, using people. No, they've been through different things, like, yeah, they got rid of my brother, everything that happened happened, they destroyed the whole family, everything you want to know, but they were after the house to put... My brother used the little girl, because I don't know how much longer he was with her, but I do know that now Nicole, for example, is suing her grandparents on my brother's behalf for 140 million pesos, because we can't pay her, we can't pay her. My quick conclusion was, they had my brother's house appraised, they want to keep the house, which is where the grandparents live.

[00:40:12]So, there it is, there's the reason why, while I was listening to your nephew, I was thinking, how do these kids who work at a bar, who work, right?, with their dad and mom, supposedly they 're relatively close. How do they meet this guy, Ojito? How do they meet this guy, Facha or Pacha? I do n't know how they meet them. Look, look at Pacha. Right, at him. Look, I have no idea about that because, like I said, there are people I don't know. I know my brother, since he had, like I said, the store, he started going there to buy things more often. He was always in the plaza. I knew him from, I mean, my maternal grandmother knew him, you know? My maternal grandmother has accusations of statutory rape.

[00:41:08]Statutory rape is when you have relations in front of the children. And on my maternal grandmother's side, there aren't any accusations, not for statutory rape, but the judge granted custody to someone who was not only accused of statutory rape, but also, behind that, the grandmother's sister was arrested in Córdoba. All for human trafficking, child prostitution. They gave my niece to those people. So, that's where we have a system that fails, that's where we have a system that doesn't look after the emotional stability of people and children; they simply don't care. When we have this level of corruption, when we have When people in power don't do what they're supposed to do, what we're seeing now happens. I want to... I want us to listen to the statement from Luciano's ex-wife, right? She also addresses certain things that were said initially but later turned out not to be true. But for this program to reach you, we need the support of each and every one of you so we can continue working and be available to bring all these issues to light. And for that, we're running a small campaign that asks: "Do you want to support us?" Become part of the commissioner's community. Your contribution is an important help for us to continue giving a voice to the invisible cases in Chile and around the world in a completely independent way. Click on the Join link on our homepage and follow a few simple steps.

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[00:43:09]Your support helps us, your support changes lives. We are talking with Natalia Rus, sister of Luciano Rus, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for the alleged abuse of his daughter. As we have been discussing on the program today, it was clearly an absolutely irregular trial with evidence that was not considered, statements that were retracted by the very people who started this conversation, and contacts with networks of people involved in human trafficking, including white slavery, as it was previously known, and therefore he is implicated in this.

[00:43:50]Because? simply to keep their property, to keep their house, because apparently this group of subjects who ultimately communicate with these minors are simply dedicated to that, to keeping other people's property, thieves, as they say there in Argentina, thieves, ah, because they simply don't work. I brought Natalia out now, on purpose, so that they would n't say anything to her, but to me, because they really are crooks, okay?

[00:44:21]Why aren't they working? Already. Well, they've got pretty big balls to be working and doing things properly. Get to work, get that sweaty thing out of here, and do your job. Don't deceive minors, don't deceive people to take away properties that cost them so much time, money, and resources to acquire. No, that's not it. That speaks very poorly of them, that they care very little because they have dedicated their whole lives to this. So imagine. Natalia, let's hear from your ex, sister-in-law, I understand you're not together anymore. Let's see what she says in this audio regarding this case.

[00:44:59]She suffered sexual violence. Where did they get that from? For this reason, I never spoke about that, nor about any other type of mistreatment. Where did they get those things? That's why I asked you yesterday, where did you get the idea that I suffered sexual violence? Where did they get that from? Because first and foremost, I never spoke about that, nor about any other type of mistreatment, do you understand?

[00:45:28]And when I went and spoke to her, when I found out everything that had happened, I was summoned by the gender violence unit. I already spoke there about gender violence, I even talked about the things they put on it when we weren't there, the things that happened in your daughter's house, the aggressions, like that time when we went to study and when we came back they were with my dad and he broke the glass with a punch and hurt his hand, he cut his hand and my dad didn't know what to do. We saw once that we found the glass that is still cracked because we couldn't replace it, uh, that the window is cracked from end to end, that she gave her brother a pair of scissors and hit the glass and broke it. Those things were discussed, including gender violence, but at no point were I asked about those things either.

[00:46:27]Where did they get those things? First of all, I didn't say anything like that, that I suffered abuse or mistreatment, or that you forced me to have relations with you or anything. I don't know where they got that from, because if not in Viero, they have also asked me that and at no time did they ask me those things. That's why I'm asking you, where did that come from? Where did they get those things? That's why I asked you yesterday, where are you from?

[00:46:52]Where did they get all those things?

[00:46:55]There it is. All of this is solely for manipulation and basically to be able to keep the property. And now I received another audio where they describe exactly how the system worked to keep the houses.

[00:47:12]The only thing I can tell you regarding the house issue is, I don't know. I know that these people moved into the corner, I know that they are not the owners of the house, and if they really wanted to keep this house, I know how I would take it.

[00:47:31]Pache was turning in the neighborhood because one day I was out here and Fede came up to me and talking to Leo, Fede said, "Hey, we were talking about the situation with the guy Nicolas who ended up at his house and what happened, he turned me in to the police and sent me to do a job and sent the cops after me." He says, "He turned me in, and a couple of other guys here in the neighborhood turned themselves in." Then I said to him, "Oh, yes," I said, "Look at that," I said, and that was it. So, talking to Leo, I say to him, "Do you know that Fede is right now?" I tell you, for me, I tell you, that everything has to be planned one way or another, I tell you. And I started to... I do n't know if it's what I'm thinking, but I was thinking, I mean, they'd put you in jail, they'd send Leo in out of desperation, because we were broke, things were going badly for us, I wanted Leo to screw up, get him arrested, and out of desperation, wanting to help me, he was going to want to... he wanted to offer me money for the house to keep the house. I see it that way.

[00:48:46]There it is. I do n't know why one of the expansions.

[00:48:49]Knowing that you were in prison, believing that what the girl said up to that point was true, Leo gets arrested, imagine how desperate I was to want to get Leo out first.

[00:49:01]So I was capable of, I don't know, when the time came, if I couldn't get money, at least they were going to come and offer me money for the house. I don't know. That 's what I was telling Leo, that maybe that's what they wanted.

[00:49:19]There is one of the ways that accounts for or gives substance to everything you have experienced. Because, what do they use to create a situation like this? I can show you an audio recording, a video that, well, unfortunately I can't take it out right now, but well, I'm going to show it to you so you can see how my brother, for example, I have photos of her leaving, photos from social media, I have, as I said, a lot of evidence, which we haven't been able to present at the trial because they haven't allowed us to. Why did I tell you that the trial had been a sham? Because the trial was by jury, right? The jury, in a jury trial, is understood to have to be trained at least one month in advance.

[00:50:09]Well, the people called, but look, regarding the trial, I have several questions that perhaps you can answer. For example, what evidence was considered decisive by the judges in the trial to convict your brother?

[00:50:25]Which is it? According to you, what is it? Look, supposedly to convict my brother, well, they based it on what my sister-in-law supposedly signed, which she says, "Yes, I signed because she said she was threatened."

[00:50:42]He said it, of course, did n't he? Well, the son said it too, and because the girl a few days before, well, she, I mean, let's see, because supposedly, let's see, she, my brother was, I mean, according to a story, because my brother, let's see, if the gynecological tests come back negative, you have it because I passed it to you, my brother also passed it to you, it comes back negative, you understand? I consulted the doctors about everything, everything, because I consulted about everything and they told me, "No, everything is perfect." While there was one thing that was due to a hormonal issue of hers, because I asked because we could all think that it was due to, I don't know, something like that, which is an inflammation of the fork, which refers to the left or right fork. I consulted with my gynecologists, I've asked doctors, doctors there themselves, and they haven't told us that, well, her problem was basically that the inflammation of that fork is because she may have hormonal problems, she was just feeling unwell, she had come back from the beach, it could be, you see? infection, even.

[00:51:52]Of course, it wasn't an infection that she had, I mean, look, even from intercourse, I mean, do you understand what I mean? No, of course not.

[00:52:02]Well, then it wasn't, let's say, something that, I mean, it wasn't because of that, so they couldn't take it as if to say, well, it's because of this, you know what I mean?

[00:52:12]No, sorry, Natalia, Natalia, sorry, but one thing, you know she has evidence of having been abused.

[00:52:19]Perfect, let's say that, let's say they found it, but the other part is extremely important, how did they establish who the person was who actually used it just from her statement? There was nothing more to it than that. A statement from her. No, my brother is in jail for telling a story, no.

[00:52:36]Of course, based on the story, not on the fact.

[00:52:40]Uh, the Gessel chambers, what did the Gessel chambers say? He did say something, didn't he? Your nephew, the Gessel camera.

[00:52:47]Look, she didn't know. Okay, let me explain something to you. I was unusual because when they told me, she didn't know how to explain what rape was.

[00:52:57]Sorry, I don't know if I can say this or not.

[00:52:59]No, they've been changing the program for a while now, so don't worry.

[00:53:04]Uh, well, uh, let's see, I didn't know how to explain it. That was my reaction. I said, "Sorry, no," I tell her, "but hey, if she can't explain it, it's because she was never abused." Basically, because a girl today, let's see, makes you understand it somehow.

[00:53:26]Anyway, that's what the interview is for, right? What, were there expert reports? Were psychological assessments done on her? Was it established what level, right?, of psychological issues she had some disturbance, was she within something, was something established, were psychological assessments done? I'm telling you the truth, look, I know they did a Gessel chamber on him. In the Gessel chamber, in one of the Gessel chambers, he came out with a storytelling girl.

[00:53:57]Fabuladora means a delicious person, right?

[00:54:00]Exact.

[00:54:00]Uh, I'm not educated, I mean, let's see, but that's what I understand, uh, but then they did other expert reports, I don't know, I don't know.

[00:54:14]Uh, they did several, uh, my mom always asked for a psychological evaluation and it was never super important. There was a prior history of domestic violence in this home that was destroyed. There were never any claims that they had arrested a violent person, or anything that might suggest such a thing.

[00:54:42]Never.

[00:54:44]No, that way. Let's see, I think that, let's see, let's see, my dad, for example, is like, let's see, my dad himself when we were kids, when, let's see, he let us do things, but when he had to set limits he did, and I think what they didn't want was to have limits set for them. Okay, so you're going to go out dancing. I was already a cardholder, I was at the age where I was starting to meet boys, girls, go out, meet people. Yes, everything's fine, everything's fine, but you see, lend a hand, lend a hand around the house, to your mother, help with the younger kids, I mean, look, my brother alone, uh, but that's not violence, setting limits, that 's not violence. But you think that the other side, the other side of the accuser said, for example, that my brother was a rapist for taking his daughter to school. There were several, there were people who were green handkerchiefs who said there, there says your brother's statement. Uh, there were psychologists who apparently participated in that, who were of that extreme-medium feminist orientation.

[00:55:47]Yes, yes. That was the jury trial. The jury trial was composed of a priest and seven feminists who sent him to his death at the last minute. No, without preparation. Without preparation. No, I can't show you, I can show you something. I can show you something, but without audio because if it's with pre- set music they're going to take down the program.

[00:56:17]Ah, well, well, well. I'm going to show you so you can see. The thing is, how can I explain it to you? It's something like you're going to... No, it doesn't have music, it's just my voice explaining, nothing else. Hey, you tell me if it's causing interference and I'll turn it down if necessary. I don't know if you can see it. Let's see.

[00:56:35]In the video I will provide photographic evidence as the father of Nicole Rut Salaberry, whom my daughter unjustly accused of not celebrating her 15th birthday, when in fact I had made her a family dinner at her request. I wanted to throw her a party, but she did n't want to. She just wanted her gift, it was a car. He asked me for a car.

[00:56:58]I bought a 2002 Fiorino truck from him, which I had partially self-recorded, leaving a screenshot and a photo of the truck I had bought. And for my son, who was about to turn 18, I bought him a Yamaha R 1000 motorcycle. That's how I spoiled my children because they asked me for it, because they wanted to go out on Saturdays and Sundays, when they only went out to dances. I also leave the photograph of the coriches of the Quijano dance being embraced with the son of the owner of Quijano also going out with their friends alone they were going to Monterande.

[00:57:31]I never prevented them from going out. They went everywhere and interacted with all kinds of people. They owned a supermarket and she was always interacting with everyone. I feel that the whole family group came to the birthday party, grandfather, aunt, who she also unfairly accused of saying that the grandparents didn't love them and didn't come to the house. As you can see in the photograph, the whole family group is there: uncle, brother, grandfather; we all knew each other. There were no problems within the family.

[00:58:04]I always gave her permission to go everywhere. He was always out and about, playing games, going out with his friends, coming around on Saturdays and Sundays, I would take him to dances in my truck.

[00:58:15]This was my daughter's life, saying that I provided all this evidence, including more than 600 photos, to my lawyer Cecilia Brullo and to Ricardo Iváñez, who did not present it during the debate, leaving me defenseless. I told my lawyer, ma'am, give the photograph to the jury. Soloya told me, "Shut your mouth or I'll throw you out of the building."

[00:58:32]That was how my trial went, leaving me defenseless, saying that she was also raised for money. My children removed him from the cause called Maria. They did not allow him to testify.

[00:58:45]More than clear, clearer where to. We're almost at the end of the program, Natalia. Yes, we are now on schedule. Just a short answer before I leave the program screens to you. Uh, this program, this case, was very high- profile. Uh, several programs came out, several morning shows there. And do you think this impacted the jury's verdict and the public perception of this case? Did that have an effect?

[00:59:16]Yes, yes, yes. But it still did us justice. And my brother has been there for seven and a half years, and we are asking for the case to be reopened because, well, for anyone who loses their freedom, it's like killing them while they're still alive.

[00:59:34]Basically, it's not just because you're a man that we're going to condemn you and and and just put you in jail for telling a story, you understand? Because when the evidence is there and you have it in your hands, what do the judges do? What do prosecutors do? Where are they? Where is the justice?

[00:59:52]Of course, because there was evidence, there was scientific evidence.

[00:59:56]Clear. Look, there was scientific evidence in favor of your brother.

[01:00:02]Yes.

[01:00:02]Therefore, it's not so much that you're condemned based solely on the story, but rather that you also played dumb or didn't consider what the scientific evidence says. So, that's a double double fault.

[01:00:17]That's it, that's it, Dale, Bella. I mean, let's see, you tell me, people out there don't, I mean, let's see, they don't want to get so involved, right? But this can't happen anymore, it's not just because of my brother, it can't happen to anyone else, do you understand?

[01:00:38]No. And my brother got 20 years. 20 years old. It's not that by story when you have all the evidence, all the evidence and what happens and now we are also fighting so that they don't take away, let's say, my dad's house. That's right, but it's because the house, I mean, is where they lived, right? Well, in the end it's going to happen, unfortunately everything points to the fact that those people who conspired to arrange your brother's meeting are being given everything they need to make this happen. We've reached the end of the program. Natalia, I want to leave you the commissioner's screens so you can say whatever you want, so you can make your final reflection. I greet the people who are watching you live, and the people who will see you later in the replay, so I'll leave the commissioner's screens all to yourself.

[01:01:37]Well, folks, thanks for being here. Well, I'm the sister of Pablo Luciano Rut, a very well-known case here in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Well, whoever wants to support us so that this doesn't keep happening to us, and that's good, not only in my brother's case, but for everyone, right? I hope they can help us get my brother out of where he is and that the case can be reopened.

[01:02:10]We need everyone's support.

[01:02:13]Well, nothing more to say, thank you very much for this space where we could tell my brother's story, and thank you to the program for helping us tell it.

[01:02:28]Thanks a lot.

[01:02:34]Okay. Big hug, Natalia. A big hug also for your brother, Luciano. I hope they manage to reopen this case. I hope things finally work out as they should, because it's clear your brother has been a victim, hasn't he? The perpetrator. A big hug, dear friend. And well, you have my cell phone too, Veronica's, so if I need anything we're there for you.

[01:03:01]Okay, a big hug from a distance. Bye, beautiful.

[01:03:07]Okay, we're nearing the end of the program. It's really unfortunate when we come across cases like this, because we realize how vulnerable we are to a system that doesn't want to work. We are very vulnerable to people who, with malice in their souls, simply want to harm you. And that is the serious problem for everyone. Today, today it's Luciano, tomorrow it could be me, it could be any of you watching us on screen today, and that's why we always need a judicial system that does its job, a police force that does its job, that does the work, as we say here in Chile, we say "la pega," that does the job, that does things properly in a scientific way, and that the courts or judges who are handling a case assess the evidence appropriately, because otherwise the system breaks down.

[01:03:59]The system is designed to work out as it should and must work out according to the established criteria. Ultimately, some sentences end on a certain date, but others last a lifetime because Luciano Rut lost his children, his name, his life, and the life he knew. And although society seems to have already made a decision about who is who, it continues to face the same question that resonates with it every day. How do you defend yourself when you not only have to convince a court, but when you also have to convince an entire country?

[01:04:46]Because when you are accused of harming your own daughter, even doubt can turn into an eternal condemnation. And in the end, beyond the sentence, there was a devastated family trying to understand when everything fell apart. And the worst part is that it's based on a lie. At the commissioner's office, we don't close stories; we leave them on the table where they should be in plain sight so that silence doesn't win, so that memory doesn't fade. I'm Carlos Collao, a detective in Retiro, and this was El Comisario, where every case matters until the truth comes out. Good evening everyone, have a great week.