USA offer $ 10 million for information about Uruguayan drug trafficker

The reward offer was published yesterday. It happens after a megaoperation, ” A Ultranza ”, of the Uruguayan police against the criminal’s group. The investigation, conducted in 2022, linked the traffic network to more than 16 tons of cocaine seized in Europe and other seizures of 11 tons and 4.7 tons in Belgium and Paraguay, respectively.

Trafficker has been on the run since 2021

With ten years of reconstruction linked to drug trafficking, he has been on the run since the end of 2021. At the time, he left the United Arab Emirates with a Uruguayan passport, where he was detained for carrying false Paraguayan documentation. He is also considered one of the intellectual authors of the murder of Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci in May 2022 in Colombia.

In 2023, Bolivia offered $ 100,000 (approximately $ 500,000) for his clues. In addition, it launched a major operation on the border with Brazil and Paraguay to arrest it, but to no avail. The trafficker entered the Bolivian country still in 2022 with his Peruvian wife, Gianina García Troche, and his three children, and even owned a regional second division soccer club at the site.

His wife arrived yesterday in Paraguay extradited from Spain. In Europe, she was arrested on charges of alleged money laundering in Paraguay. The 32 -year -old woman was accused in 2022 – after the operation ” A Ultranza ” – to be part of the criminal structure led by her fugitive husband.

What the defense says

Defense says the client is ” innocent and never practiced any crime ”. To the Facto News, Brazilian lawyer Eduardo Mauricio and Uruguayan lawyer Santiago Moorório argue that the digital evidence generated during the operation Ultranza would have been manipulated by the French police. ” Marset is unaware of these messages and never made use of the encrypted phone, being an international businessman of unblemished conduct. ”