The wife of Marcelo Pecci, after the murder of her husband, this Tuesday in Barú.RR SS
The crime of anti-drug prosecutor Marcelo Pecci had a "high planning" that required an investment of resources to be committed in the Colombian Caribbean, the director general of the Colombian Police, General Jorge Vargas, reported this Wednesday.
From Cartagena, in a speech together with his peers from the Paraguayan Police, as well as the prosecutor's office of both countries, they reported on the progress of the investigation in which the DEA (Drug Control Administration) and the FBI (Bureau de Control) also participate. Federal Investigation).
“Here we are talking about a system of transnational organized crime to commit this assassination against justice.
That is why we have international capabilities,” added Vargas.
Regarding the lines of investigation, the authorities refrained from giving details, but assured that, as was thought from the beginning, the murder is related to the work of the prosecutor.
“The first hypothesis would be related to his functions and to the investigations carried out by Prosecutor Pecci against international terrorism.”
Prosecutor Pecci, who was celebrating his honeymoon in Cartagena and was murdered on a beach on the island of Barú, was behind investigations that affected different criminal organizations and that also touched Paraguayan politicians.
In the southern country there is a growing drug culture and groups such as the First Command of the Brazilian capital, with connections at the Latin American and European level, as well as Serbian, Russian, and Mexican mafias have settled in Paraguay to expand their routes.
The doctor in criminology, Juan Martens Molas, explains that “it is difficult to make a comparison between countries in the region, although Paraguay has become in recent years a major route for Andean, Colombian, Peruvian and Bolivian cocaine;
and by the institutional and structural fragility of the control system”.
Until now, the authorities only have information about the hit man who fired the weapon and who was captured in some images while renting the jet ski on which he traveled, along with other people, to commit the crime.
The Police revealed a spoken portrait of the man and pointed out that he is 1.74 tall, has a dark complexion and a "Caribbean accent."
However, the investigations are looking for the intellectual authors and for this reason they have increased the reward to 2,000 million Colombian pesos (500,000 dollars).
“Not only do we work on the line of the person who shot, but on what the transnational links are and if they are directly from Paraguay or from other countries,” said Colombian deputy prosecutor Marta Mancera.
"It's not so much who fired the shot but who is behind it, what is the criminal organization," she insisted.
The deputy prosecutor added that, in addition to the judicial information from Colombia and Paraguay, they are crossing data with United States agencies "with whom Pecci worked constantly."
In 2019, the prosecutor handed over to DEA agents the Lebanese Nader Mohamad Farhat, requested in extradition by the Court of the Southern District of Florida for money laundering.
He recently also investigated the Ultranza A Py Operation, in which he led 12 raids and seizures of planes, boats and other assets that served criminal groups to launder money.
In this, Miguel Ángel Insfrán and his brother, the Christian pastor, José Insfrán, who in 2021 was in Colombia visiting a church, were linked.
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