Daniel "Maguila" Puccio was released: he was sentenced to 22 days in jail for providing a false identity card

Daniel "Maguila" Puccio, known to have integrated the clan led by his father, author of kidnappings and homicides in the 1980s, was provisionally released by a judge from the state of São Paulo . The 58-year-old man was arrested in Brazil on September 16 for a false document.

The interim measure was granted on 30 September by Judge Andrea Ribeiro Borges of the city of Itú, inside the state of San Pablo, for the benefit of Puccio. At present, the defendant must satisfy a series of requirements, including the fixing of a home and appearance before the justice of the peace whenever necessary during the course of the investigation.

According to the file consulted by the agency TélamPuccio was assisted by two lawyers who had been seeking his release since there was no request for interpol capture against him.

The Secretariat of the Penitentiary Administration of Brazil announced that "Maguila" was released on October 1 at 9:38 am from Itaí Prison, located 300 km west of the city of San Pablo, where he had been arrested after being arrested on September 16 with fake Brazilian documents.

That day, Puccio was traveling by bus from Foz de Iguazú, border with Puerto Iguazú, Misiones, to San Pablo, where he had announced his intention to settle. The capture took place during a drug-related operation conducted by the road police in the city of Itú, where she stopped the march of a bus carrying 14 passengers.

According to the portal of O & # 39; GloboPuccio would have been nervous to see the police and delivered a false document that would have attracted the attention of the troops because the picture was different from the one in the system. When asked, he acknowledged that he "had bought" in São Paulo "to stay longer in Brazil".

Following the kidnappings and murders attributed to the gang, "Maguila" He was detained for only two and a half yearsfrom August 1985 to February 1988, when he was released without conviction.

In 1999, he was sentenced to 13 years in prison solely for the abduction of Nelida Bollini de Prado (59), the last clan clerk, but he never did so because, since then, he has been remained on the run – apparently by New Zealand and Brazil – At the time, the case was finally declared in 2011.

The clan led by Archimedes was composed of two of his sons, Alejandro, a former member of the San Isidro Sports Club (CASI) and Los Pumas. Daniel; retired military officer Rodolfo Franco and his friends Guillermo Fernández Laborde and Roberto Oscar Díaz.