Andrés Felipe Pérez Hoyos apologized to the boy’s parents as he straightened his trousers and jacket and stared at the camera. for participating in the murder of prosecutor Marcelo Pecci on a private beach in Barú on May 10, 2022.
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The evidence presented by the prosecution was so devastating that she and her brother, Ramón Emilio Pérez Hoyos, who was apprehended on Saturday, January 14th, pleaded guilty to the charges at a hearing held 24 hours after their presence in Rionegro (Antioquia) and Bogotá.
For months, forensic investigators from the Prosecutor’s Office and the Police confirmed the information provided by many of those involved. The hitman Francisco Luis Correa Galeano, who let the Pérez Hoyos brothers reach them.
Correa herself confirmed it was theirs. They hired to kill the anti-mafia prosecutor.
EL TIEMPO has gained access to the investigation for the first time, revealing unpublished photos, meetings and information that will allow us to reach the last link in this chain of crime: The capo who paid for Pecci’s murder.
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According to the information gathered, it was determined that he was to kill the anti-mafia prosecutor. The “heavy” hitmen from Brazil who had raised a million dollars and failed had already been hired.
Therefore, on April 30, 2022, Ramón Emilio Pérez Hoyos called the hitman Correa Galeano, whom he met in prison. And here comes the first clue about his brain.
At the first meeting in Medellín, Ramón Pérez assured him that killing a prosecutor who put pressure on his “boss” was delicate business.. In fact, he assured Pecci that the big capo’s brother had already been jailed.
“He is known to be a drug smuggler, originally from Paraguay, who was a bank robber. and hiding on an island under the jurisdiction of a European country,” he said.
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According to officials, it will Miguel Ángel Insfrán Galeano, aka Tío Rico, is a powerful Paraguayan drug trafficker, a fugitive from justice.
And here comes another important fact.
One of those involved in the Pecci crime He allows the Paraguayan capo to hide in La Guajira, where shipments of cocaine carried by the Pérez Hoyos brothers depart.
EL TIEMPO has the testimony of Correa assuring: “Andrés and Ramón work for a Paraguayan man and he is cucho Paraguayan (sic) and he is the one who put the drugs on Ramón and Andrés and they are already in charge of removing the drugs from Colombia. They say this Paraguayan man is hiding in La Guajira.“.
This testimony is in your hands The Nation’s Attorney General.
And he added that some of the information about Pecci’s steps came from Cúcuta and Bucaramanga.
Authorities, a shipment 1,100 kilos of pure alkaloids were seized in Punta Gallinas in March 2022 (La Guajira) and that it belongs to the same criminal organization. In that operation, five people who are currently in key positions in the investigation were caught.
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The seal that the panelas carry with the cocaine belongs to TXL, the brand of the Paraguayan drug lord. The same stamps were found on shipments in the Netherlands, Spain, Paraguay and El Salvador.
This last country becomes important as Margareth Chacón Zúñiga is hiding there, as EL TIEMPO has revealed.The partner of one of the Pérez brothers who will accompany them to several meetings in his truck with the hitman Correa.
According to the evidence, more than 4,000 million pesos would have been paid for Pecci’s crime, but the hit men’s group only received 1,600 million pesos. The Pérez Hoyos brothers, who would own a gold mine in Amarlfi (Antioquia), also went to Santa Marta (and later to Cartagena) to finalize the details of the crime. This is proven by hotel records and security cameras.
Ramón Emilio Pérez was the first to learn of Pecci’s murder through the Signal app.
Half an hour after the murder, Correa and the brothers were documented meeting near the Palmetto Building in Cartagena.
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They handed over some of the money there to pay other shooters. A security camera was caught minutes ago Andrés Pérez withdraws money from an ATM in Cartagena: 10 million pesos and a similar amount he had previously withdrawn from a bank office.
The prosecution confirmed that it belonged to the Correa and Pérez family. to the Rastrojos criminal gang through one of its tentacles: ‘los Paisas’. In fact, Ramón Pérez was the commander of ‘los Paisas’ in Córdoba. He used the nickname ‘Esteban’ at the time. It has even been confirmed whether he works for Carlos Castaño and under the pseudonym ‘don Berna’.
It is known about Andrés Pérez (like his brother) that he devoted himself to shipping cocaine shipments to Mexico and Europe. He would be in more direct contact with the Paraguayan drug trafficker.
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According to studies, many of the meetings to provide information about Pecci’s movements took place in the square of a shopping mall and In the center of Medellín, in a billiard room where Ramón Pérez’s partner works.
EL TIEMPO has found that there are two warrants to be executed and that the DEA and the DEA are now in pursuit of the intellectual author of the crime of prosecutor Marcelo Pecci.
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