Getsemaní quarter, the walled area, San Felipe Castle, Plaza Santo Domingo, Calle de la Factoría…
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Federal agents and Colombian investigators have already rebuiltstep by step, the five-day trip to Cartagena of the Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci, who was killed by the assassins on May 10.
The photos that his wife, journalist Claudia Aguilera, uploaded to their networks became key for criminalistics experts to confirm whether the suspects were following them from Asunción or even boarding the same airline flight. them to Colombia.
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In addition to the analysis the photos served to save the security cameras of the places they visited and to identify the people who followed them.
EL TIEMPO, even foreigners arriving on the same plane as Pecci and to guests of their two hotels: Cartagena Royal and Decameron Playa Blanca.
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“Testimonies were also gathered from beachgoers and men who rented jet skis on which the assassins rode.”, a knowledgeable source assured EL TIEMPO.
In fact, one of those natives claimed the gunmen had Caribbean accents.
While the Director of the National Police, General Jorge Luis Vargas, did not specify whether they were Colombian or Venezuelan, the newspaper found that authorities had identified one of them and his arrest was imminent.
What General Vargas emphasized is that an international terrorist group was behind the killing of a 45-year-old prominent Paraguayan anti-mafia prosecutor.
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As EL TIEMPO explains, federal agencies are investigating whether the order was given to eliminate it in retaliation for an operation against the extremist Hezbollah.
In 2019, Nader Mohamad Faraht was extradited to the United States, thanks to a joint effort between Pecci and the DEA. The latter is on trial by the Florida Southern Court for transnational drug trafficking and a mega money laundering operation linked to Hezbollah.
“There is still a loose file on this operation in Paraguay and a Hezbollah cell is operating in Colombia,” a source involved in the investigation, along with the FBI and DEA, told EL TIEMPO.
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However, he made sure that another reason could not be overlooked: The last operation A was revenge for the 25 captures of Ultranza PY. In this case, Paraguayan prosecutors and federal agents, including Pecci, managed to seize drug jets, boats used for smuggling, and gathered evidence of how large amounts of mafia money were being transported through exchange offices.
In this latter hypothesis, the researchers add that the order to assassinate Pecci may have been entrusted to Brazil’s First Capital Command. The alternative headquarters of this cartel was Paraguay, and Pecci, along with other prosecutors, dealt them several blows.
In this context, General Vargas pointed out that the death of prosecutor Marcelo Pecci was directed by an international organized crime system in retaliation for the investigations carried out in Paraguay.
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Vargas also said that the 2,000 million pesos prize, which is about $500,000, seeks to identify material writers, “as well as identify intellectuals.”
EL TIEMPO, though handled in absolute secrecy, more than 100 forensic police investigations found that officials were very close to one of the killers.
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Who would be one of the assassins, the jet ski used in the assassination was rented, and the security cameras of the place where the gunmen went to the hotel where Prosecutor Pecci and his wife were located were captured by security cameras (see box). ).
The award-winning poster and oral portrait (made from testimonies) overlap with the videos.
Colombian deputy prosecutor Martha Mancera drew attention to the fact that “from the moment the crime was learned, the best investigators of the prosecutor’s office were appointed (…).
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Mancera stated that Marcelo Pecci’s body was in Forensic Medicine during the autopsy process, whose opinion will be crucial to the investigation. “After this process is completed, his body will be handed over to his wife and friends who are here,” the accuser’s representative said.
Parallel to the Pecci case, which has baffled even the US government, local acts of assassination in Cartagena are alarming.
Pecci’s murder exposed a series of assassination crimes in Heroica. As of April 30, 2022, 120 homicides had been recorded; 107 of these were carried out by gunmen.According to the Cartagena Judicial Branch Oversight Office.
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There is a “Gulf clan” in that city, so it cannot be ruled out that the assassins in the prosecutor’s case are linked to it. According to Óscar Marín, president of the Cartagena Council, the Pecci case reveals the power of organized crime in his city.
Most victims of such murders in Cartagena are criminals, riddled with bullets amid the revenge of criminal organizations. But at this lead junction, traders, neighborhood headmen and policemen died as well.
Another foreign citizen is also included in the lists.
200,000 pesos. This money was paid on the island of Barú for a jet ski rental by gunmen who came to the exclusive beach of the Decameron hotel to commit the murder of prosecutor Marcelo Pecci.
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This was reported to the police by tour operators who rented the red jet ski on which the gunmen were traveling. The criminals chartered the ship and roamed the bay like two tourists, but in reality they were waiting for the right moment to commit the crime.
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