The Attorney General’s Office of the State of Ecuador reported this Sunday that it opened, ex officio, an investigation into the alleged escape of the inmate José Adolfo Macías Salazar, alias ‘Fito’, leader of the criminal gang ‘Los Choneros’. “The Prosecutor’s Office opened – ex officio – an investigation into the alleged evasion of the prisoner Adolfo MV, alias ‘Fito’ – leader of the criminal group ‘Los Choneros’ – from the Litoral Penitentiary. The first steps are being taken,” he noted on his X account (formerly Twitter).
The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboaleads a meeting of the Public and State Security Council (COSEPE), called urgently this Sunday afternoon.
The Presidency had announced that at 7:00 p.m. local time (00:00 GMT) there would be a statement in a message to the nation, but later noted that it would not take place because the authorities were at the meeting of the Cosepe.
The Cosepe meets at a time when uncertainty is increasing about the place and situation of alias ‘Fito’.
‘Fito’ is the leader of ‘Los Choneros’considered by the authorities of Ecuador as one of the largest criminal gangs in the country with alleged links to Mexican cartels.
He National Comprehensive Care Service for Adults Deprived of Liberty and Adolescent Offenders (SNAI) He has limited himself to indicating that once the operation carried out in the prison ends, the results and data of the procedure will be issued.
But he has not responded to insistent press queries about the situation of alias ‘Fito’.
“Alias Fito, the most dangerous criminal, who was left in prison, escapes (all the others have been murdered or given pre-release),” wrote on his account Jose Serranowho was Minister of the Interior during the Government of Rafael Correa
Without citing sources, Serrano added: “The cell or ‘suite’ in which Fito ‘stayed’ was found impeccably ‘clean’, There was time to ‘pack’ all the criminal’s belongings, including watches, weapons, whiskey, cell phones, laptop… he took everything, everything, because he said he was not coming back.”
For her part, legislator Sandra Rueda reported that, as an assembly member and member of the Commission on Sovereignty and Comprehensive Security, she asked the Minister of Government, Mónica Palencia, and the director of the SNAIinform about the location of alias ‘Fito’.
“Transparency, key to guaranteeing security,” he noted in his X account.
‘Los Choneros’ emerged in the 90s in Chone, a city in the coastal province of Manabí, and they progressively gained power on the routes of the drug traffickingparticularly in the transit of cocaine from Colombia to be later transported by sea to Central America or North America, according to police reports.
According to the same authorities, They are currently dedicated to drug trafficking, extortion, hitmen and arms trafficking, among other crimes, and are faced with ‘Los Lobos’ and ‘Los Tiguerones’.
