Former Los Fabulosos Cadillacs saxophonist
Ignacio Alfredo Pardo Paso (58),
better known as
"Naco Goldfinger"
, was sentenced to eight years in prison.
It is for a case that dates back to 2021, when they found 33 kilos of cocaine when rescuing him after the shipwreck of his boat in the middle of the Río de la Plata.
Judge Nelson Jarazo, who was a sole member of the Federal Oral Court (TOF) 2 of La Plata, sentenced
Leonardo Gastón Minin Etcheverría (43)
to the same sentence on Friday for the crime of drug trafficking.
Carlos Ariel Cammarota (45),
the third member of the expedition in the Río de la Plata, which - according to the lawyers of the two survivors - was only a fishing trip, died in the shipwreck
.
His body appeared near a shipment of 36,596 kilograms of cocaine: 34 loaves of bread adorned with the image of Félix Gallardo, a Mexican drug trafficker known as "The Chief of Chiefs" or "The Drug Czar."
Carlos Broitman, Minin's defense attorney, assured Télam this afternoon that it was "a rigged, hair-raising, arbitrary sentence," since Judge Jarazo "departed from the expertise that he himself authorized, he departed from falsehoods." "ideological actions carried out by a member of the Prefecture".
"Everything to be able to maintain the tax accusation, and we are waiting for the foundations," said the lawyer.
Federal prosecutor Rodolfo Molina had requested a sentence of 14 and a half years in prison, during the arguments made on December 28.
Ignacio Alfredo Pardo -known as "Naco Goldfinger"-, Leonardo Gastón Minin and Carlos Ariel Cammarota.
Furthermore, Minin Etcheverría's lawyer stated that the bag in which just over 33 kilograms of cocaine were found "was more than 10, 12 kilometers away, in a position that could never have been carried out and assigned to any of the three. ", nor the dead man (Cammarota), who was separated in another boat and died before Pardo went to look for him."
Finally, Broitman pointed out: "(Jarazo) made a resolution that deserves, beyond criticism, it deserves, after knowing the aggrieved and revoked grounds, that we ask for his dismissal with a political jury."
"Naco Goldfinger", who had already served a sentence for a restaurant robbery in 2015, and his friend Minin Etcheverría had arrived as detainees for the oral debate.
The reconstruction of the "fishing trip" with 34 loaves of cocaine
According to the request for elevation in the judgment of the federal prosecutor Ana Miriam Russo, in the early morning of October 15, 2021, Pardo, Cammarota (46) and Minin arrived at the "El Pajarito" Camping, on Almirante Brown and Arroyo streets, in the town of Punta Lara, aboard a Toyota Hilux, with a trailer in which they carried a black "Tracker" type boat.
According to the document, the three men launched the boat in a stream and set sail "to an uncertain destination", despite the fact that at that time a "yellow alert" was in effect due to gusts of winds from the southern sector that reached 70 kilometers per hour.
"About six hours later, which coincides with the beginning of the investigation, Minin and Pardo appeared floating with circular and body life jackets in place, in the Ship Waiting and Anchoring Area in the La Plata Harbor," says the request.
Minin and Pardo alerted the sailors who rescued them that they were with another person whom they could not find, later identified as Cammarota, whose body was found floating hours later.
The cocaine loaves that Naco Goldfinger was transporting on the day of the shipwreck in the Río de La Plata.
During the search operation, the sailors found the black bag with 33,490 kilos of cocaine.
The investigators determined that the cargo was of "extreme quality - 93 percent purity" and that with the seized quantity more than 311,000 doses of said substance could have been produced.
According to the investigation, Cammarota died from "asphyxiation due to submersion", while Minin and Pardo remained swimming at night and in the middle of a raging river for six hours, until they were finally rescued around 6 in the morning by the sailors of a merchant ship who spotted them floating.
"It has been proven that the three people who set sail on the boat were Cammarota, Minin and Pardo," the prosecutor said in the request to which
Télam agreed.
There she pointed out that at the time of being investigated, the former saxophonist of the Fabulosos Cadillacs "made an extensive defense story through which he attempted to explain the circumstances known in the file."
"But his statements turned out to be implausible, full of inconsistencies and contradictions," the prosecutor concluded.
"The effective possession by the accused of the illicit material
seized in the cars must be proven
. It is proven that the three embarked in the Río de la Plata on a very dangerous night, and therefore, there is no other way to explain the presence of the three defendants at that time and in that place, rather than materially linking them to the seized substance," adds Russo.
For the judicial official, "Cammarota, Minin and Pardo embarked in possession of the seized drugs, with the purpose of
transporting the narcotics to an unknown destination
."
Pardo has numerous criminal records, since he was arrested for the million-dollar robbery of an accountant at a renowned restaurant in San Isidro for which he entered Unit 46 of the San Martín Penitentiary on November 9, 2015 and remained there until the 5th. June 2017.
Then, he went to Unit 48 of the same prison until December 2018 and was finally transferred to Unit 30 of General Alvear until July 31 of last year, when a Criminal Execution judge granted him assisted release.
There he met Cammarota.
The man who died on the expedition, meanwhile, had been imprisoned in 2015 for a robbery aggravated by the use of weapons and abuse of weapons, and was sentenced to seven years in prison.
His file indicated that he was in Unit 28 of Magdalena for four years, then he went to Unit 30 of General Alvear between March 2019 and December 2020 and finally in Unit 40 of Lomas de Zamora, from where he escaped on March 17. this year and since then he remained a fugitive.
With information from Télam