{"id":1040509,"date":"2024-08-22T06:49:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T13:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/?p=1040509"},"modified":"2026-09-04T11:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T18:42:14","slug":"wanted-25000-usd-reward-for-the-arrests-and-convictions-of-corrupt-costa-rica-public-attorneys-and-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/fr\/2024\/08\/22\/une-recompense-de-25-000-dollars-americains-etait-offerte-pour-larrestation-et-la-condamnation-davocats-et-de-fonctionnaires-corrompus-du-costa-rica\/","title":{"rendered":"WANTED: $5,000 USD Reward For Arrests And Convictions Of Named Costa Rica Public Attorneys And Officials In Investor Fraud Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_86952\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sQP-8zQ3SR0?enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"  alt=\"Costa Rica Corruption Exposed: American Investor Enzo Vincenzi Warns of Fraud &amp; Legal Abuse\"  src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/sQP-8zQ3SR0\/maxresdefault.jpg\"  \/><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/espanol\/se-busca-recompensa-25000-usd-por-los-arrestos-condenas-abogados-publicos-y-funcionarios-corruptos-costa-rica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Haga clic aqu&iacute; para la versi&oacute;n en espa&ntilde;ol<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The AEGIS Alliance is offering a $5,000.00 USD cash reward for each arrest and conviction tied to named Costa Rican public attorneys and officials in the Enzo Vincenzi complaint. The offer stands on the same packet Vincenzi sent to President Rodrigo Chaves, then-U.S. Ambassador Cynthia A. Telles, and OIJ Director Randall Z&uacute;&ntilde;iga. The names have not been withdrawn. The zip file of exhibits is still on this site. What has changed around the case is the diplomatic desk in San Jos&eacute; and the fact that Costa Rica later handed one of its own former security chiefs to Texas on a separate U.S. drug indictment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reward for Information Leading to Arrest and Conviction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A $5,000.00 USD each cash reward is being offered for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of the following individuals involved in public corruption in Costa Rica:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Attorney Norma Cayaso<\/li>\n<li>Fiscal Attorney Carlos Villegas M&eacute;ndez<\/li>\n<li>Mayor Tobi&aacute;s Murillo<\/li>\n<li>Attorney Jos&eacute; Juan S&aacute;nchez Chavarr&iacute;a<\/li>\n<li>Judge David Ricardo Madrigal<\/li>\n<li>Judicial official Sandra Morales<\/li>\n<li>Yamileth de los &Aacute;ngeles Araya Lara \u00ab\u00a0Mila\u00a0\u00bb<\/li>\n<li>Myra Cecillia Villalobos Chac&oacute;n<\/li>\n<li>Notary Sonia Villalobos Chac&oacute;n (Cell: 10487061)<\/li>\n<li>Attorney Yorleni D&iacute;az<\/li>\n<li>Junior D&iacute;az (practicing law without a license)<\/li>\n<li>Immigration Attorney Andrea D&iacute;az Berrocal<\/li>\n<li>Craig Anthony Atherton<\/li>\n<li>Attorney Christian Eduardo Zamora Sequeira<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These individuals are implicated, in Vincenzi&rsquo;s filings, in conflict of interest, discriminatory hate crimes, conspiracy to commit murder, and the filing of falsified domestic violence charges &mdash; two of which were lodged in the Costa Rican Supreme Court and the Jac&oacute; Police Department. Two U.S. citizens, Carly Huba and James Huba, are accused in the same packet of conspiring with those actors, publishing slander and defamation against Vincenzi and his hotel business on TOP WIRE News, Medium.com, TripAdvisor, and Facebook, and working a scheme meant to defraud U.S. investors of money and real estate while targeting Vincenzi&rsquo;s home and hotel in Costa Rica.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1046298\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1046298\" style=\"width: 612px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1046298\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/8-22-2024-spanish-enzo-corrupted-public-attorneys-and-officials-wanted-poster-tk2.jpg\" alt=\"Spanish-language wanted notice offering a reward for arrests and convictions of corrupt Costa Rica public attorneys and officials\" width=\"612\" height=\"792\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1046298\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Este fraude de larga data nunca ha sido expuesto y representa una injusticia grave y un crimen de odio inhumano contra inversionistas estadounidenses, canadienses y extranjeros.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The documented public court evidence has been provided to President Rodrigo Chaves, U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica Cynthia A. Telles, and OIJ Director Randall Z&uacute;&ntilde;iga. Ambassador Telles left the post on January 19, 2025. Ambassador Melinda \u00ab\u00a0Mindy\u00a0\u00bb Hildebrand presented credentials in San Jos&eacute; on January 8, 2026. Contact lines that still name Telles are kept here as part of the original record, not as a claim that she remains in office.<\/p>\n<p>Vincenzi describes a residency-and-real-estate trap. Foreign buyers are told that $150,000.00 USD or more buys a path to Costa Rican residency and a clean title. Instead, he says, investors are boxed in, hit with fabricated criminal papers &mdash; including fraudulent domestic violence counts &mdash; and then watched as liens and lawsuits land on their properties in the National Real Estate Public Records. Once the investor is expelled, the property is the prize. The AEGIS Alliance has published the complaint package and the later narrative files so readers can test that claim against the exhibits rather than against a press release.<\/p>\n<p>The same complaint thread continues through later reporting on this desk: <a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/2023\/11\/07\/the-costa-rica-conspiracy-unraveling-the-web-of-corruption-and-deceit-a-warning-to-american-investors\/\">The Costa Rica Conspiracy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/2024\/09\/16\/a-corruption-nexus-exposed-u-s-investors-quest-for-justice-in-costa-rica\/\">A Corruption Nexus Exposed<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/2024\/09\/28\/left-in-peril-the-shocking-allegations-of-corruption-human-rights-violations-neglect-at-u-s-embassy-in-costa-rica\/\">Left in Peril<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/2025\/07\/05\/how-a-secret-complaint-ignited-a-us-crackdown-on-costa-rican-corruption-the-whistleblowers-gambit\/\">the whistleblower file that tracks the Gamboa extradition<\/a>. Those stories are not the same case as the names on this wanted list. They are the surrounding weather. Costa Rica amended its constitution in 2025 to allow extradition of its own nationals on drug-trafficking and terrorism charges. On March 20, 2026, the country sent former Security Minister and ex-Supreme Court judge Celso Manuel Gamboa S&aacute;nchez to Texas on a U.S. cocaine indictment, with Edwin L&oacute;pez Vega on the same flight. That handover is a drug case. It is not a verdict on Norma Cayaso, Carlos Villegas M&eacute;ndez, Tobi&aacute;s Murillo, or the other people named above. It does show that San Jos&eacute; will now move a Costa Rican official when Washington presses hard enough on narcotics paper.<\/p>\n<p>Travel guidance has also shifted since this reward was first posted. The U.S. Department of State travel advisory for Costa Rica stands at Level 2, \u00ab\u00a0Exercise Increased Caution,\u00a0\u00bb for crime, in the advisory issued April 2, 2026. It is not Level 3. Older copy on this page that described a Level 3 warning is corrected here. Canada and the United Kingdom continue to publish their own crime cautions for parts of the country. None of those advisories adjudicate Vincenzi&rsquo;s civil and criminal claims. They do describe a security climate in which property fights and street crime sit on the same map.<\/p>\n<p>The legal theory in the packet is not subtle. Vincenzi says attorneys who were supposed to shepherd residency filings instead blocked them, manufactured conflicts, and used the courts as a removal tool. He says that once a foreign owner is off Costa Rican soil, a lien in the public registry is easier to defend than a person standing in a Jac&oacute; courtroom. He calls that sequence a hate crime against U.S., Canadian, and other foreign investors. Those are his words and his exhibits. The AEGIS Alliance is publishing the reward because the names are specific and the documents are downloadable, not because a Costa Rican tribunal has already convicted the list.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information leading to the arrest and conviction of the named officials is urged to contact:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Costa Rica U.S. Embassy (original record named Ambassador Cynthia A. Telles)<br \/>\nPhone: <span \n                data-original-string='5u6CZAAnTv\/CEsUo2bbQvQ==9c6sjxpop2zFkpmfE6eah+\/Cg=='\n                class='apbct-email-encoder'\n                title='This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.'>+506 <span class=\"apbct-blur\">*******<\/span>00<\/span><\/li>\n<li>OIJ Director Randall Z&uacute;&ntilde;iga<br \/>\nConfidential line: 800 8000 645<br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:oi********@***************go.cr\" data-original-string=\"EMh6d4+5\/bliwMO\/LrydPA==9c6PE6jP7n9QugMOpUuA4uIIk2tv6Sbp+ofoZTQnZwrf0I=\" title=\"This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.\"><span \n                data-original-string='cYEGWqyf4+OmZXh14RKkpQ==9c6Nmu91xjMgO3HGUVfrnd2ke9FX2mgMIX446jpoD5Ia4g='\n                class='apbct-email-encoder'\n                title='This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.'>oi<span class=\"apbct-blur\">********<\/span>@<span class=\"apbct-blur\">***************<\/span>go.cr<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Enzo Vincenzi<br \/>\nPhone: <span \n                data-original-string='jLxmrxMVia4i16sk5jWw9g==9c60J2EQkbRbD8SuLTbHlRMrg=='\n                class='apbct-email-encoder'\n                title='This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.'>+506 <span class=\"apbct-blur\">*******<\/span>22<\/span><br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:oc************@***il.com\" data-original-string=\"m5I5vtyDYiFUxQ0SzP8KlA==9c6kf\/n21eEdVxGvFz8hQEFqU+tM9yLGv0H1u+nqaBptWc=\" title=\"This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.\"><span \n                data-original-string='fmPs\/CmfhBDjy4bAhkmIhQ==9c6c2CvY8nfbZXUDN\/g\/HXIfJ9mVDxqqNIhXw4xdCylR6w='\n                class='apbct-email-encoder'\n                title='This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.'>oc<span class=\"apbct-blur\">************<\/span>@<span class=\"apbct-blur\">***<\/span>il.com<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li>U.S. Attorney Elliot S. Schessel<br \/>\nPhone: <span \n                data-original-string='tD0vWW8RdUer+rFJObJHNA==9c60gmM\/9jGRfrR+p8O1YRaDg=='\n                class='apbct-email-encoder'\n                title='This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.'>+1 51<span class=\"apbct-blur\">********<\/span>16<\/span><br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nywillsandtrustslawyer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.nywillsandtrustslawyer.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Enzo Vincenzi &mdash; organized crime conspiracy criminal complaint, evidence download:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Downloads\/9-07-2024-enzo-vincenzi-criminal-complaint.zip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Downloads\/9-07-2024-enzo-vincenzi-criminal-complaint.zip<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the video briefing that travels with this reward, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sQP-8zQ3SR0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Costa Rica Conspiracy: Unraveling the Web of Corruption and Deceit &ndash; A Warning to American Investors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related files on this desk: <a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/2024\/09\/16\/a-corruption-nexus-exposed-u-s-investors-quest-for-justice-in-costa-rica\/\">A Corruption Nexus Exposed: U.S. Investor&rsquo;s Quest for Justice in Costa Rica<\/a> and the original long-form warning at <a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/2023\/11\/07\/the-costa-rica-conspiracy-unraveling-the-web-of-corruption-and-deceit-a-warning-to-american-investors\/\">the Costa Rica conspiracy archive<\/a>. Outside explainers remain at <a href=\"https:\/\/tumblrblog.com\/corruption-crisis-devastates-costa-rican-economy-and-tourism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the tourism-and-corruption brief<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/markets.financialcontent.com\/stocks\/article\/247pressrelease-2023-11-7-addressing-legal-concerns-in-costa-rica-enzo-vincenzis-experience\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vincenzi&rsquo;s published legal-concern statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The reward is $5,000.00 USD each, not a pooled $25,000 headline. The slug on this URL still carries the older figure. The offer in the body is the controlling number. Information that does not lead to an arrest and a conviction does not collect. The AEGIS Alliance is not a court. It is the publisher of the names, the exhibits, and the price on a conviction that has not yet been posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AEGIS Alliance is offering $5,000 each for information leading to the arrest and conviction of named Costa Rican attorneys and officials in Enzo Vincenzi&rsquo;s corruption complaint. Ambassador Telles has left the post. 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