A Mendoza businessman disappeared and his car was set on fire

MENDOZA.- This city does not leave the confusion because of the disappearance of Rolando Orlando Viegas Bordeira, a 74-year-old hotel entrepreneur from Mendoza, that his car was found burned Wednesday in the vicinity of the El Pozo dump, in Godoy Cruz, one of the most dangerous areas of the province.

Over the hours, the authorities intensified the search for the missing and hypothesized that it was killed in an alleged attempted robbery, a line of investigation that was supported by the discovery of the burned vehicle.

The survey yesterday gave a 180 ° turn after a call to emergency number 911 which gave key information about the fate of the septuagenarian. The communication with the police system was made by a woman who gave clues to a group of criminals who allegedly met the anonymous informant, who allegedly intercepted the man to steal money from him and , as they had not got what they wanted, they would have buried it. the vicinity of the Los Barrancos Racecourse, a site near the dump, according to the local newspaper
El Sol .

For this reason, as LA NACION could have known, Justice ordered the veracity of this audio and started with raking duties in the extended area, with backhoe loaders. At the end of this edition, they could not find Viegas, so the work will continue today to cover the whole of this land.

From the first moment, in search operations, with no positive results so far, the Headquarters Department of Godoy Cruz, the Investigators' Research Division, the Mounted Police, the Corps of Canes and a helicopter from the Mendoza security force.

The woman's appeal, allegedly receiving information by the bride of one of the alleged killers, allowed to move forward with the tasks. According to the story of the young woman, the businessman would have been approached in the busy Corredor del Oeste while he was driving his Citroen C3. This version indicated that the victim would have been forced to go through the automated teller machines, but the thieves would not have gotten the loot provided with this alternative, so, according to the investigators' story, they would have decided to kill her and bury it near the landfill. The car was found cremated

The owner of the hotel El Nevado, near the bus terminal of Mendoza, was last seen on Tuesday afternoon when he left his house in the famous private district of Palmares, in Godoy Cruz. . By not returning to his address, his family began to worry and gave notice to the authorities because the man was suffering from health problems and thought that he had been lost. Viegas wore jeans, a sneaker, a blue sweater and a blue scarf, according to a viralized image by social networks.

The denunciation for his whereabouts was filed on Tuesday evening by one of his daughters at the Tax Office 17 of Police Station 40, in the district of La Estanzuela, in Godoy Cruz. A few hours after the start of the official search, the burned car was found in an area that some groups use to get rid of vehicles after flights.