"Drop by drop": this is how the violent cases of Colombian loan sharks take place in Argentina

The fashion "drip" wear, which selects its victims among the most vulnerable, those who can not access a bank loan because do not meet the usual requirements while an official salary receipt is growing in Argentina, operated by lenders from Colombia.

But, on occasion, Some of these mafia networks are falling.

Last Monday, eleven members of one of these organizations were arrested by the national gendarmerie. The federal force acted under the direction of the Judge in economic criminal Pablo Yadarola and the support and coordination of the National Investigations Directorate, which belongs to the Ministry of Security.

Ten of those arrested are of Colombian nationality, the others are Argentinian. The group was essentially a family business. His presumed leader is David Fernando Salazar Herrera, 30, Colombian, with the Argentine DNI, 95 million, his brother Caros alberto with the brothers José and Jhon Kenedy Fortnight, also with addresses in Hurlingham.

The majority of foreigners entered irregularly to the country, with false papers, under another identity or via illegal border crossings and then they got their documents. In your country, many of them have criminal records. As you may have known Infobae, the immigration office and at the request of the judge, will ask in the next few days the expulsion of criminals.

The group operated in the city of Buenos Aires, but He had spread his web in the parties of Zárate and San Miguel in Buenos Aires.. During raids, 215,955 pesos, 3,000 Colombian pesos, 5,000 Guaranies and 107 dollars were seized. But the most important is in other roles.

For the first time Justice Seized Thousands of Documents on Suspected Transactions and ChargesSome of them dating back to 2012 have been used by the band to recover usurious loans. On the top of the rustic checkbooks where the amounts paid by the customers have been paid and with a red stamp the payment date has been highlighted. You can read unusual articles, for example "Colombian crafts".

The loans always These were species, fast, they were granted in less than two hours, without requirements. The interest rate to be paid, which began monthly, has been clarified for quickly become payments made weekly. There were several ways to find usurers: they were promoted by volanteros in the street, on the market of Pompeii, in Barracas, Constituciónin San Miguel or Liniers station, they went to small premises that did not last long, ephemeral stores, like a furniture store in San Miguel three blocks from the main square of the municipality. Behind the bait of pine tables and chairs, will appear the offer of the supposed loans tailored to the needs of each client.

Thus, a downward spiral began, from wear and tear to economic violence in the face.

Faced with problems and needs,The victims did not know that they would end up giving the lenders up to five hundred times more than the money requested. When they could not continue to pay, already drowned economically, the "bonebreakers", badbadins and hitters hired by corrupt networks, visited them at home or in the small businesses that have armed the loans. The tours were not exactly for coffee. Gangsters They threatened even to murder their children or their parents.

If the constraint did not work, the second gathering was less pleasant. In this case, there were two bullies. One, the one who drives the bike, stays on the way; the accomplice saves the words, hit the victim. There were cases in which the victim lost teeth, suffered a broken ribs or fractured an arm.

In some cases, they can not cross the words. The frontages of the houses or the stores of the victims were shot with the help of motorcycles.

The savagery was such that in Tartagal, in the province of Salta, Dsoul, a young woman barely 20 years old, is hanged at her house because she was threatened by the lenders: his death left two children orphaned.

Catalina, her mother, publicly denounced May 29 that Colombian loan sharks they lent him 15,000 pesos under conditions that Dalma could face. However, all of a sudden, the lenders changed the terms, the interest rate was multiplied by five and the payments would not be made every thirty days, but every seven days.

The grandmother of the two children told the newspaper The gallery, that Dalma made the dramatic decision because "I was desperate for constant threats from Colombians who threatened to kill their children if I did not pay."

"Drip" in Latin America

After the dismantling of the band of usurers, Minister Bullrich he called back in dialogue with Infobae The reason why the Ministry of Security, along with officials such as Martin Laborde, coordinator of economic crime investigations, has focused on this modus operandi that has spread from Colombia to countries like Mexico, Venezuela, Uruguay, Panama and Brazil.

Bullrich said that One year after taking office, a group of investigators from the Colombian National Police arrived in our country to meet her, as well as her team. Clearly, the detectives detailed with graphics and photos that the drug trafficking and money laundering had changed in their country and that the big cartels, which had stopped working in the 90s, They left a vacant workforce.

Criminals, of course, they were not looking for formal work in newspaper clbadifieds, but they had been following the path of a new system, which worked with the micro-washing and micro-trafficking of black money of a modality, hitherto unknown, or not studied in the country, called "drop by drop", a form of fierce fraud.

"In collaboration with Colombia, Argentina has been at the forefront in the fight against drop by drop, which aims to attack vulnerable people and launder money for drug trafficking, "said the minister, adding:" After understanding the modus operandi, we totally dismantled the integrated criminal gang of these ten Colombians . "

As you may have known Infobae, through Eugenio Burzaco, Secretary of National Security, these loans at very high ratesThey will have a system of money laundering that is sent to Colombia by private mail in the border area. Money does not just circulate: it comes back too.

The intelligence services in Argentina, Mexico and Colombia have established that the "trade", which most likely results in tribute to a group of narco, begins with the "volanteros", responsible for the distribution of cards and offering the credits. without guarantees The "administrator" is also part of the network, responsible for receiving calls. and usually serves the customer personally. The killers who collect the money owed, plus the interests, ride on a motorcycle.

The "security chiefs"For their part, they are responsible for the pressure recovery system when one of the victims can not pay the debt incurred. His specialty, threats and gun violence.

During the last raids, in the city of Buenos Aires, but also in Sam Miguel u Zárate, gendarmerie also seized ammunition for .9mm weapons and marijuana and seven similar motorcycles that the victims described as those used by the "bone breaker" to move and intimidate them.