They are two home videos, of poor quality, moved.
One lasts 22 seconds and the other 34. They don't show much but they do show enough.
They were secretly taken by the Rosario drug lord
Esteban Lindor Alvarado
with a smartwatch that someone smuggled into the Ezeiza I Penitentiary Complex.
The videos, to which
Clarín
had exclusive access, show the soccer field of Module III of the prison, its extension and also the lighting poles that surround it.
From the side of the image, a figure wearing gray jogging pants and an orange and blue striped soccer jersey enters and exits the frame.
It is Alvarado (43) who tries to frame how he can the exact place where the helicopter -which he imported from Spain- must land so that he and an accomplice can get on and escape.
Conversation between the helicopter pilot and drug lord Esteban Lindor Alvarado.
Photo Public Prosecutor's Office.
The recipient of the videos, and also of a large number of audio and text messages via WhatsApp, is the pilot he hired to airlift him out of jail, a man investigators could only identify by his nickname. ,
"Wolf"
.
For it to be successful, everything had to be perfectly planned and that is why Alvarado and "Lobo" talked a lot about the details.
They did it using the smart watch but also a yellow Samsung cell phone.
Both devices were kidnapped by federal judge Ernesto Kreplak, who commanded the operation in the Ezeiza prison together with federal prosecutor Cecilia Incardona and Diego Iglesias, from the Narcocrime Prosecutor's Office (Procunar).
Esteban Alvarado, narco from Rosario, rival of Los Monos.
The watch, in poor condition and without a strap, was found by the Federal Penitentiary Service (SPF) inside a stocking and half-buried next to the Ezeiza Module III court.
The telephone was hidden in the frame of the window of cell 16 of Pavilion E of Module 3. It was held by
a ladero from Alvarado
, who is housed in the same sector.
On March 13, Alvarado was called to investigate for the escape, also accused of laundering money from drug trafficking (for the purchase of the helicopter) and head of an illegal association.
Alvarado appeared with a defender used to representing heavyweights, Fernando Arias Caamaño, who was a lawyer for the narco-financier Diego Guastini until he was assassinated by hitmen on October 28, 2019. Before the judge he denied everything and returned to Ezeiza.
They frustrated the escape of one of the main drug lords in Rosario: a helicopter was going to look for him at the Ezeiza prison.
Photo: Ministry of Security.
much talked fugue
After a first failed attempt, on Friday March 3 - canceled because that day raids were carried out in the Ezeiza, Marcos Paz and Rawson prisons - Alvarado had rescheduled everything to escape on Friday the 10th.
But the information about the leak reached the Ministry of National Security first, which passed it on to the Procunar, and the plan was aborted by the authorities.
In the days between the first attempt and the second,
"Lobo's" cell phone could be cloned
and this resulted in a follow-up on the preparations for the leak finally agreed for Friday, March 10 at noon.
Clarín
also had access to the WhatsApp audios that Alvarado exchanged with the pilot.
Actually, only those of the pilot survived, since the narco has the habit of sending audios and deleting them after a few seconds, so as not to leave traces.
On the cell phone of the pilot "Lobo", Esteban Lindor Alvarado is scheduled as "
Esteban
" and
his WhatsApp photo is that of the mobster Al Capone
.
All a detail.
With surprising ease for someone who is supposed to be monitored and watched in his conversations, Alvarado discussed every detail of the escape with his contraband cell phone.
Should he and his partner jump into the cabin?
Wasn't it faster to hold on to the skates?
What if they put a net between the helicopter's landing skids and positioned themselves there?
How fast did they have to go to avoid falling?
Esteban Lindor Avarado, at the Criminal Justice Center. Photo: JUAN JOSE GARCIA.
The conversations were very detailed and show that Alvarado had consulted YouTube videos on the best way to escape by helicopter.
Justice has many dialogues about these preparations, and in some of them "Lobo" debates about how to get out of such a reckless plan alive.
"
If you're hanging from the ski at that speed, I'll lose you on the road
," "Lobo" explains to Alvarado, who had sent him a series of videos taken from the Internet.
"
The best way is to go up and sit down
," the pilot insists.
The Ezeiza prison.
Photo
For "Lobo" there were two viable options.
The first: that Alvarado and his partner (both would be dressed in orange T-shirts) would get on the skis or skates of the helicopter and jump inside.
The second: mount a thick and taut net between the skis in which they could travel there for a few kilometers.
The idea was to descend at General Rodríguez and continue by land.
It seems that the latter was the idea that Alvarado, the main enemy of "Los Monos", liked the most, but not so much the pilot.
"
If something hits the tail rotor, we'll kill ourselves
," he warns the drug lord who, fearful and all, never thought of backing down.
So much so that he even thought about buying two Go Pro cameras and installing them in the helicopter to immortalize the moment.
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