Argentina's Interior Minister, Guillermo Francos, said this Friday (19) that the prosecutor murdered in Ecuador this Thursday (18), César Suárez, was investigating the trip of the wife of Adolfo “Fito” Macías, the most dangerous criminal in Ecuador , to Argentina.
“When they gave him the investigation, he was murdered. This is to give an idea of the magnitude of the organization that this Ecuadorian criminal leads and the risk that there was of him settling in Argentina, and therefore the immediate concern of the government of Córdoba”, said Francos.
When contacted by CNN, the Attorney General of Ecuador stated that it can “neither confirm nor deny this information at this time”.
The wife, children and other people linked to Fito were located in Córdoba, around 700 km from Buenos Aires, following an anonymous tip, according to the Argentine government. They had their transitional citizenship canceled and were deported to Ecuador this morning.
They would have arrived in Argentina three days before Fito's escape, who managed to escape from Ecuador's regional penitentiary on January 8. Fito's wife and children were living in a house, in a private condominium on the outskirts of the city of Córdoba.
The Argentine government works with the hypothesis that the family's arrival was planned, as the property was purchased in November last year. “Our hypothesis is that there was a plan to buy a house in Argentina, take the family [do Equador] and then escape from prison,” said Argentine Security Minister Patricia Bullrich.
According to Francos, Fito's wife had already entered the country in September, October and November, before entering again this month. For Bullrich, it is common for drug traffickers to “look for a safe place for their families so that they are not involved in their criminal acts.”
Asked about the possibility that the criminal, who escaped from Ecuador's regional prison, in Guayaquil, on January 8, is in Argentina, Bullrich stated that “there is no evidence or information” of this. But she said that the family's history in the country is worrying and puts the government on “red alert”.
Source: CNN Brasil
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