Police in Córdoba (Western Argentina) have arrested several relatives and friends of Ecuadorian drug trafficker José Adolfo ‘Fito’ Macías, a fugitive from justice and who, according to sources, is considered one of those responsible for the wave of violence that has swept Ecuador experiences. of safety, quoted by local media.
Those arrested during the operation carried out on Thursday evening (Argentine time) had rented a house in Valle del Golf, a private neighborhood in Malagueño, on the outskirts of Córdoba, and paid in cash with dollars, according to the Domestic newspaper La Voice Affairs, which names as its source Alberto Bietti, director of the criminal intelligence service of the Córdoba Police, who, together with the Anti-Drug Police Force (FPA), was in charge of the investigation.
Although the identity or number of those arrested has not been officially released, local media indicate that there are eight, including the wife of ‘Fito’ Macias, Inda Mariela Peñarrieta Tuarez, and three of his children, Michelle, 21 years old, Ilse. María, 12, and Lian Sejam, 4.
The remaining detainees, according to La Nación newspaper, are a domestic worker, Denny Yadira Laines Basurto, Javier Macías Alcivar, a cousin of the capo, and Ángel Zambrano Chiquito, a family friend.
The media in Córdoba indicated that the detainees were taken from the house in Malagueño to the Provincial Directorate of Aviation, from where they boarded a plane to Buenos Aires and then deported to Ecuador.
Argentina’s Security Minister Patricia Bullrich will hold a press conference this Friday to report on the “mega operation” that culminated an investigation that began about four days ago, according to media reports.
“La Nación” stressed that, after confirming that the people living in the exclusive private neighborhood of Valle del Golf were relatives of the fugitive from justice in Ecuador, the National Directorate for Migration (DNM) intervened in the case and decided to deport him to put. from the land of Fito Macías’ wife and children.
‘Fito’ Macías is the leader of Los Choneros, one of the armed criminal gangs that the Ecuadorian government considers responsible for the wave of violence sweeping the country, including the murder of prosecutor César Suárez last Wednesday in Guayaquil.
Macias, who has links to Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, was sentenced to 34 years in prison in 2011 for drug trafficking, organized crime and murder and has been involved in several escapes, the last on January 7, after which an escalation of violence followed. prompted the government of Ecuador to declare a state of emergency and demonstrate the existence of an internal armed conflict.
Source: El heraldo
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