![]() Confronted with the evidence, she stammered that she would have an explanation the following day.īut when Fifi's secretary arrived in the morning, the office had been stripped - all the title deeds and other documents were missing and the phone was ripped out. She had even forged the signature on the title deeds. Fifi had fraudulently remortgaged the apartment. The edifice collapsed when someone I know received a letter from a bank demanding payment of $20,000 outstanding on an overdue mortgage. ![]() She numbered among her clients a wide circle of friends - including a bank manager who says, "if anyone should have known better, it was me," - and she even borrowed a large sum of money from her son a couple of days before disappearing. Hers is the kind of story that is all too common these days in Argentina, a country where the dollar was king only a year ago, but where many families now struggle to survive with devalued pesos, scrip, barter and charity.Įveryone trusted Fifi. If the tango composer Enrique Santos Discepolo were still around, he could write a terrific song about her up and down life. Fifi is, or was, a respected and seemingly well-off public notary - a state registered official who carries out legal and fiscal functions like a solicitor in England - a mother, whose children have all done well, and a grandmother passionately proud of her grandchildren.įifi, as I found out to my disbelief when I visited Buenos Aires recently, was also a thief. She was at our wedding - a big blonde girl with a toothy grin. Or are you at the bottom of the River Plate with a block of concrete for company?įifi was my wife's childhood friend in Buenos Aires. Where are you now Fifi? Enjoying life on a Caribbean beach? Or running from the police in some seedy place in Paraguay or Bolivia, or perhaps somewhere up north in the remote regions of Argentina? You must have intended to go somewhere hot, because you only took your summer clothes.
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