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Banquero de Chavez, Victor Vargas Irausquin, pierde juicio de divorcio en Tribunal Supremo de Justicia

Víctor Vargas Irausquin, dueño del Banco Occidental de Descuento (BOD), dejo a Carmen Leonor Santaella, su esposa de toda la vida, madre de sus hijas y fuente de su fortuna, para irse con María Beatriz Hernández, una mujer 30 años mas joven con quien ha tenido un hijo ilegítimo recientemente. Vargas obtuvo un divorcio en mayo del 2013, según decisión de la juez Anna Alejandra Morales del Tribunal Vigésimo de Municipio de la Circunscripción Judicial del Área Metropolitana de Caracas. Pero esa decisión ha sido anulada por el TSJ.