Guastini, the story of a narco's accountant: millions of dollars, tons of drugs and missing persons

Virginia Messi

10/23/2020 4:54 PM

• Clarín.com

• Police

Updated 10/23/2020 4:54 PM

The mega-operation of the Gendarmerie in the city of Buenos Aires that on Wednesday revealed the existence of the drug clan led by the Peruvian (Argentine nationalized)

, started from a cause that in reality there are four and an investigation in the that in truly the protagonists are two.

But one of them was killed.

File 34,505 began in the federal court of Morón, headed by Néstor Barral, as a result of an anonymous complaint received on March 23, 2018 against Atachahua and a certain "Gordo Jesús."

It was an email in which a large cocaine collection center was mentioned in a house located "near the Gymnastics and Fencing Club of Ituzaingó, and a police station."

Due to a formal issue of jurisdiction, this case went to the Pablo Yadarola Economic Criminal Court a little over a month ago, who ordered the 26 raids on Wednesday.

And by then the investigation already included parts of three other causes and a character as or more important than Atachahua himself: 

Guastini, who was killed by a hitman on October 28, 2019, had been Atachahua's first accountant, also his partner and the only one in charge of organizing the "mules" that came from Europe with the proceeds of cocaine shipments.

The raids where the Peruvian narco fell occurred on Wednesday in the city of Buenos Aires.

Photo Germán García Adrasti

That is why file 34.505 deals with both Atachahua and Guastini.

Only, being dead, Guastini was no longer subject to criminal prosecution.

Guastini was assassinated

as repentant before the Justice.

He made three in total and provided valuable information on two narco clans: Los Loza and Los Atachahua.

Many wished him death and some indulged.

In the case led by Yadarola there is a large amount of data provided by Guastini on the laundering of millions of dollars (he speaks of 35 million) and how the cocaine trafficking was organized on a large scale.

But there is still more information if all the files are analyzed that, due to their connection, ended up in one.

Even if the dates on which they started are taken into account, a game of cross betrayals is guessed. 

A score of the secrets that each of them keep: 

CAUSE 106.2010

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This is the first time that the name of Carlos Sein Atachahua Espinoza has been written in an Argentine file.

He did have a conviction in Peru in 1999 and had left traces in a seizure of 300 kilos that was made in Uruguay in 2012.

This is a preliminary investigation of the Procunar initiated on February 20, 2018 by a complaint sent by the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI).

Intelligence information indicated that an organization, led by Atachahua, was trafficking Bolivian cocaine and stockpiling it in a house in Parque Leloir (Ituzaingó).

double-bottomed

and from Argentina the cocaine would go to Europe via the port of Santos, in Brazil. 

A first report from the AFI added the name of his accountant, Miguel Angel García Ramos (arrested Wednesday).

Diego Xavier Guastini is barely mentioned in the corporate analysis as vice president of Rosgar SA, one of the four companies of the Atachahua group.

The AFI never acknowledged that Guastini was in fact a regular reporter for that agency.

The arrest of García, accountant for the drug clan of the Peruvian Carlos Sein Atachahua Espinoza.

CAUSE 12.407.

It began in February 2018 after a "repentant" in the case known as "Narcogolf" testified in the federal court No. 2 of Lomas de Zamora, of Federico Villena, and named Diego Guastini.

The testimony not only paints the entire body of the AFI informant, but also provides an unknown piece of information: the disappearance of a collaborator of Guastini - nicknamed "El Colorado" -, supposedly two years before the disappearance of financier Hugo Díaz (41 ), also a partner of Guastini who, in fact, was the last to see him alive.

Says the repentant: "'El Colorado' apparently would be dead since he disappeared in 2013 here in Argentina, after leaving Diego's exchange house, in the Microcentro, in a building that is by Lavalle and Florida, in the third floor. The office is armored and there are security people at the door, since they owe a lot of money to several people. Diego previously worked with 'El Lauchón' (after Pedro Viale, an intelligence agent killed by the Police Buenos Aires on July 9, 2013) ".

"Diego and 'El Colorado' were partners. Diego had drug deals with the former SIDE, and the money was brought by ... Diego's people. (...) As' El Colorado was undocumented and had several passports, his disappearance never came to light, "added the repentant.

CAUSE 20.545.

It began on March 6, 2018 due to a complaint received by the guard of the Investigations Department of the Argentine Naval Prefecture.

According to what was recorded, the information came from an anonymous call (sic) in which two addresses from Olivos were provided where, according to the complaint, the cars where the drug would be hidden were prepared.

Hugo Díaz (41), the financier who disappeared in the Buenos Aires Microcentro on March 9, 2015.

In this complaint, Diego Guastini is also named, with an extra mysterious component.

Guastini's collaborator named Juan and nicknamed "Pelado" or "Pela" is mentioned.

It is at this point where the complaint (which surely hides the existence of a buchón) takes color.

The reason: one of the last messages that financier Hugo Díaz sent from his cell phone -after seeing Diego Guastini and before he disappeared on the morning of March 9, 2015- referred to the fact that he was meeting with a "Pela".

That message was received by Carlos Alberto Diaz, Hugo's cousin, who worked with him.

The man testified that the financier called him that morning and asked him about the amount of money in the safe.

He replied that there was no money.

Then messages were exchanged until 1:47 p.m., all curious.

In one of them Díaz tells his cousin that he is with "El Pela" (nickname that was that of his interlocutor, Carlos).

Now, for the first time, a second "Pela" appears in play that gives meaning to that SMS from March 2015. One more clue of that great matrix that seems to have been the life of Diego Xavier Guastini.