The Buenos Aires City Police recovered about
40 computers
belonging to the Sarmiento Program, which had been
stolen from a school
and were offered for sale at an
illegal street fair
in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of
Retiro
.
A
long investigation and intelligence tasks
led to the police procedure carried out on Friday, where in a raid, in addition to the computers, 4 cell phones reported stolen, 12 stolen bicycles, 3 car wheels and even
a police tonfa
were recovered .
The investigative thread took the police officers to the street fair located on Perette Street and Antártida Argentina Avenue, in the Retiro neighborhood where a strong operation was carried out in the last few hours.
The computers kidnapped at the Retiro fair.
During the procedure, supervised by the Minister of Security of the City, Waldo Wolff, and the Secretary of Security and Chief of the City Police, Diego Kravetz,
eight people were detained
- seven men of Peruvian nationality and one Argentine - who were in charge of the stalls that sold the aforementioned items.
The National Criminal and Federal Correctional Court No. 5, headed by Judge
María Eugenia Capuchetti,
intervenes in the case .
The Sarmiento Plan and the computers stolen from the school
The Sarmiento Plan is an initiative that the Buenos Aires Government implemented more than 10 years ago in the City and with which technological devices are being delivered to be used in classrooms for educational purposes, to improve the teaching and learning of each of the students. and facilitate the work of teachers.
In addition to computers, cell phones and bicycles were seized, also stolen.
Since its implementation , more than 55,000 notebooks and netbooks
have already been distributed
, many of which have been stolen and then
sold illegally
.
Notices on platforms such as Mercado Libre and Facebook's Market Place offer them for sale.
In one of the most recent events, which occurred in November of last year, the City Police managed to thwart another robbery attempt at a school located at 700 Independencia Avenue, in the San Telmo neighborhood.
On that occasion, five minors
had stolen 142 notebooks
belonging to the Buenos Aires plan, which were recovered with the arrest of the thieves.
D.S.