'El Rengo' Pacheco, imprisoned for drug trafficking, called Crónica TV: 'I am a successful construction businessman'

Nahuel Gallotta

07/26/2021 5:00

• Clarín.com

• Police

Updated 07/26/2021 5:00 AM

"Yes, at this time I was cooking, I was watching the program and I called," explained Javier "El Rengo" Pacheco (48), detained in Ezeiza Complex 1 for drug trafficking, to Diego Moranzoni, host of

Crónica TV

.

"I have nothing to do with the death of the policeman (by Ricardo Ariel Rodríguez) or with drug trafficking. The reality is that I have been detained for 60 days for

an armed cause

. I have been a businessman for twenty years," he declared.

Pacheco was arrested in late May.

The Buenos Aires police found him in a mansion in Parque Leloir, Ituzaingó.

They accuse him of being the leader of an organization dedicated to drug retailing and informal money loans, based in the 9 de Julio settlement in San Martín.

Thursday afternoon was news again.

Next to the body of the Federal Police officer Ricardo Ariel González (35) there was a sign that named him: "

Rengo Pacheco 10 million for me, here are your millions, attentively San Martín

."

The note left to the murdered federal police officer

They had left him in the same white Peugeot Partner truck in which the police officer was found shot in Loma Hermosa.

They also hijacked his cell phone and his service weapon.

So far it was not possible to clarify where he was killed.

"It had been six months that I was being

extorted by the Ezeiza DDI commissioner

. As I refused to pay, they made me a cause," he said.

And he added: "I was born and raised in the 9 de Julio emergency village and I have not been to the village for twenty years. I have been an entrepreneur for 20 years. I am a construction entrepreneur, I am dedicated to real estate. different construction companies ".

According to the Police and judicial investigators, Pacheco would have laundered 54 million pesos during his last year in freedom.

His assets would exceed 400 million pesos.

In addition to money and drugs, in the raids they hijacked high-end cars and trucks.

In some houses they discovered underground bunkers.

"Rengo" Pacheco called Crónica TV and denied being a narco.

Darts to Berni

Pacheco, however, denied all kinds of accusations: "It is a media cause. They have nothing to blame me. They

planted all the drugs on me

. I was not even a fugitive. It was a media circus of Sergio Berni, who campaigned politically with me. I am a businessman. I have paid the AFIP and all the taxes. "

In addition, he complained because as he is "

a successful businessman in this country

" they are investigating him for money laundering.

"Tell me what the sentence is," he said.

Ariel Ricardo González (35) worked in the Mercedes Delegation of the Federal Operating Unit Division (DUOF) of the PFA.

Regarding the murder of González, investigators believe that Pacheco would have offered 10 million for the crimes of two drug traffickers.

Through a lawyer and a Pai Umbanda, the victim had accepted the order to find hitmen willing to carry out the orders.

And for that they would have killed him.

For accepting the job.

Pacheco accused the drug traffickers of paying the "commissioner of the DDI of Ezeiza" and assured that they, in a conspiracy with the police chief, "handed him over to be armed with the cause."

The murdered agent worked in the PFA delegation in the town of Mercedes.

According to his father, a former retired police officer, in recent weeks he used to meet a pai and a lawyer.

According to the autopsy, he

was shot eight times

.

Prosecutor Gabriela Disnan (from UFI 5) analyzes the fingerprints found on González's truck and his cell phone.

According to Pacheco, he does not have to hide "from anyone" and "in the western zone" of the Buenos Aires suburbs they know who he is.

"I am a construction entrepreneur, I am known in all the real estate agencies in the area with my four or five construction companies."

"El Rengo" assured that he "never" sold "a gram" of drugs and denied having ties to Miguel Ángel "Mameluco" Villalba, the historic drug lord from San Martín who is in custody.

"Afraid that something will happen to me in jail? No, not really. I am just another detainee in a prison, I have no privilege," he said.

EMJ

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