Virginia Messi
08/14/2020 - 15:31
- Clarín.com
- Police
Only between Friday, March 10 and Thursday, April 6, 2017, the organization led by the Peruvian Marco Estrada Gonzáles (57) would have raised 14,958,630 pesos with the sale of cocaine, base paste and marijuana in Villa 1-11- 14, from Bajo Flores. At the rate of that time: 958,887 dollars, almost a million.
The numbers may seem too exact to be credible. However, they exactly reflect the money entered into the band in those four weeks, the net produced.
The figures, in detail, appear in a notebook seized on June 6, 2017 from Andy Yovanny Andrés Jaúregui in his bunker inside the settlement. That notebook was one of the most eloquent evidence used by federal prosecutor Diego Velasco to request 17 years in prison for "Marcos" as the organizer of a company dedicated to the illicit trafficking of narcotics and possession of weapons of war.
This Friday Velasco requested sentences of between 3 and 12 years for the other 40 members of the organization who are being tried with their boss since June 14 of last year.
Among so many people there are two more than important people for Estrada Gonzáles: his wife, Silvana Salazar (49) , for whom 13 years in prison were requested (for the same crimes as her husband, as co-author) and her mother-in-law, Lily Lucila Enriquez Alarcón (72) , considered a "secondary participant" and with a request for a sentence of four and a half years in prison.
Trial by videoconference of the Peruvian narco Marco Antonio Estrada Gonzáles (red jacket).
Velasco started with his argument on Friday of last week and finished it seven days later. Both hearings were held remotely with the judges of the Federal Oral Court 3, the lawyers and the prosecutor from their homes. The defendants heard from the different jails in which they are housed (mainly Marcos Paz and Ezeiza). They were placed in special rooms with a regulatory chinstrap.
For "Marcos" this is not the first trial of his life, but it is the most important. A first investigation started in the late 1990s ended in 2004 with a sentence of 4 years and two months in prison, a sentence handed down by the Federal Oral Court 2. The qualification at that time was "organizer of an illicit association, possession of narcotics with commercialization purposes aggravated by the number of participants and the stockpiling of weapons and ammunition of war ".
The two largest trials against him for drug trafficking - the first of which led to his request for international arrest and detention in Asunción, Paraguay, in 2007 - closed with two shortened trials, each lasting 6 years. The first was in 2012 and another in 2013 and they ended up with a single sentence of 10 years in prison.
The "Marcos" area, in the village 1-11-14. They are 7 hectares.
"Marcos" went to jail but thanks to a series of intramural courses (he finished high school and studied "mechanics") he got parole in February 2014. Then he moved with his family to the private neighborhood of La Celia, in Ezeiza , the same place where the Buenos Aires Minister of Security Alejandro Granados lived. It was in his duplex in La Celia that they went to look for him to arrest him again , on December 16, 2016.
A prisoner since then, this is the first time that Estrada Gonzáles has exposed himself to a more important sentence. It can go well or very badly since in his plea the prosecution also requested his declaration of "recidivism" which would prevent him from accessing the benefit of temporary and conditional exits when serving two-thirds of the sentence.
So important was Velasco's request for punishment that if TOF 3 judges Javier Ríos, Fernando Machado Pelloni and Andres Basso coincide with the prosecutor in the unified 24-year sentence (the 17 requests now plus the previous sentences) Estrada Gonzales would come out in freedom only in 2033.
The annotations belong to the sector commanded by Andy Yovanny Andrés Jaúregui, "Marcos" side.
Of course, if they acquit him, he would be in a position to go home. This was always his idea since he does not want under any circumstances to be expelled from the country and return to Peru, as the Narcocriminality Prosecutor's Office (Procunar) already raised and won in court.
The figure of "expulsion" allows a convicted foreigner to leave Argentina in the middle of the sentence if he wants to. But if you want to stay in our country, Justice can only wait for you to complete your sentence to make your expulsion effective, after a process.
Threats, weapons, drugs and fear
"'Marcos' manages an area of 7 hectares within the City of Buenos Aires. Everyone knows that the place is governed by Marcos and Pity (his older brother, today a fugitive). Another law governs those 7 hectares, his law "Velasco said at the beginning of his plea and stressed that, in the territory of Estrada Gonzáles," the State was doing things but had and has many difficulties to be effective.
The prosecutor gave examples. One: When the gang placed barricades at the entrances so that patrol cars could not pass and anyone had to slow down in the sales areas, the City Government removed them. But the drug traffickers ended up replacing them with 10-liter cans filled with cement.
Two: When cameras were installed to film them, parades with absurd legends of non-existent festivities appeared everywhere that were strategically placed to obscure the view towards the merchandising stands.
With maps, charts, wiretaps, interweaving of messages and photos, the prosecutor Velasco explained the system applied by Marcos and Pity within the "Peruvian" sector of 1-11-14.
The evidence presented at trial.
Although with certain ridiculousness, the brothers share the same structure, but they take turns in using it. Each assumes command and keeps the collection for four weeks after which they hand over the territory to the other. This is what the notebook kidnapped from Andy Yovanny Andres Jaúregui confirmed for whom the prosecutor requested the 11-year sentence in his plea.
San Juan Post, Varela Post, Cachita de los Paraguayos, Lalo's Corner. These are some of the posts of the band that the prosecutor marked on the map of the town and that over the years were modified, although not much. The packaging did not change either: the black plastic wrappers for marijuana, a white bag with a red closure for cocaine and a black closure for base paste.
The system always worked well. And you know: if it works, don't change it.
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