Argentina proudly shows itself to be “a hostile territory” to drug trafficking, the Minister of Security indicated this Friday, Patricia Bullrichin Buenos Aireswhere he offered details about the operation that concluded last night with the arrest of relatives of the Ecuadorian drug trafficker José Adolfo Macías Villamaralias ‘Fito’.
In a press conference in which members of the national and provincial Executive of Córdoba (center of the country) offered information about the operation that led to the arrest of eight family members and associates of the fugitive criminal from the Ecuadorian Justice and his subsequent deportation, the head of the Inside, Guillermo Francosconcluded that “Argentina is not going to be a narco country.”
“There is a decision to expel foreign criminals,” added the Minister of Defense, Luis Petri.
The Minister of Security of the province of Cordova, Juan Pablo Quinterosconfirmed that they arrested eight individuals – whose identities they did not reveal – after a joint operation by the Police of Cordova together with the anti-terrorist and criminal investigation divisions of the Argentine Federal Police (PFA).
“There were no indications that they came to carry out their criminal tasks in Argentina, but rather to take refuge in the country.”he assured Quinteros.
In accordance with Bullrichthere was prior planning to settle, since last November they acquired a house in a private neighborhood on the outskirts of Cordova.
“They had several entrances to the territory, hypothesis What we manage is that once the family is settled, ‘Fito‘would escape from prison to join them“said the minister.
The assault by an armed group on the canal facilities TC Television -last January 9- in Ecuador, in which its workers were kidnapped for several hours during a live broadcast, would have functioned as a screen for ‘Fito‘ will execute his escape from the Guayaquil Regional Prison.
“We had an alert from the authorities of Ecuador (that) the family of this murderer, ‘Fito’, was hiding here. Therefore, for Argentina it is a very important success to have deported them.“, indicated the national official, who added that the Government of Cordova He was also developing a parallel investigation into this family and, once both investigations were coordinated, the work of both Administrations was united.
The income of the detained individuals were legal and there were no alerts on them when they entered on January 5 to Argentina. Therefore, to achieve the deportation, Migrations – dependent on the Ministry of the Interior – had to cancel the temporary residence of these people.
The gang leader’s relativesThe Choneros‘They arrived this Friday at Guayaquil (Ecuador), deported on a plane from the Argentina air force (FAE), to which they were taken a few hours after being detained in a private neighborhood on the outskirts of the city of Córdoba.
