Drug Dealer Falls for $ 1,500,000 Reward

A little before in the courts of
Commodore Py, in Retiro, the second hearing of the
oral and public trial where the
former mayor of the correntine city of
Itatí, Natividad '"Roger" Terán, Deputy Mayor Fabio Aquino and 34 others for their alleged links to the
marijuana trafficking, in Paraguay, they arrested Luis Saucedo, nicknamed El Gordo, one of the syndicated bonnet of contraband of
sativa cannabis in Argentina from Paraguay.

According to official sources, El Gordo Saucedo, 39, was arrested in Pilar and will be transferred to Asunción in the next few hours. He was arrested on the public highway by the National Anti-Drug (Senad) Secretariat of Paraguay.

In addition to Saucedo, another Argentine citizen was arrested with a capture request in the same investigation. This is Antonio Navarro, 43 years old.

According to information provided by the Ministry of National Security, members of the staff of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) and the National Gendarmerie also participated in the operation.

By Saucedo, the Ministry of National Security came to offer a reward of up to
1,500,000 pesos (originally offered $ 500,000) for those who provide data that can be used to locate the fugitive of the so-called Sapucay case, which revealed the link between political, judicial and police officials and the police. drug traffickers
Itatí.

Saucedo was the subject of a national and international arrest warrant signed by former federal citizen Sergio Torres, now a member of the Supreme Court of Buenos Aires. While he was in his office
Comodoro Py, was in charge of the Sapucay operator. A red Interpol circular weighed on it.

According to the investigation conducted by the federal prosecutors of Corrientes Flavio Ferrini and Carlos Schaeffer and the Prosecutor's Office against Drug Trafficking (Procunar), headed by Diego Iglesias, Saucedo would be one of the leaders of the illegal trade in marijuana in Corrientes.

During the investigation, the prosecutors had requested the confiscation of a fleet of vehicles badigned to the Saucedo Band. Prosecutors have called for the embargo on a Volkswagen New Beetle, a VW Vento, a Toyota 4×4, five Toyota Hilux trucks, a Honda Fit, three Ford Ranger trucks, a VW Fox, a BMW 116I, a VW Amarok pickup truck, a Mercedes Benz Sprinter van, a Mercedes Benz Compressor C 230, a Ford EcoSport van, a VW Suran, a Renault 21, a Chevrolet Silverado and an Iveco Daily truck.

According to the judicial investigation, Carlos Bareiro, known as "Cachito", Saucedo and Federico Marín, nicknamed "Morenita", distributed marijuana from Itatí in seven provinces.

As reported
THE NATION at the time, Bareiro, Saucedo and Marín were the leaders of three "criminal societies".

Saucedo was one of the three groups working in Itatí and was identified as Los Gordos. And Navarro, also detained in Paraguay, was part of this group. They were one of the suppliers of the narco-criminal clan "Los Monos". that Rosario dominated, "said a research source.

For investigators, the three "criminal societies" based in Itatí, in the city of Correntina, are distributing large quantities of marijuana in Argentina via Tucumán, Córdoba, Mendoza, Santa Fe, Chaco, Buenos Aires and the city. from Buenos Aires. Paraná River of Paraguay.

The proximity of Paraguay – there are between 2,500 and 3,000 meters of islands from coast to coast – makes Itatí a hot smuggling area. But criminal activity has moved less than ten years ago. The jump was fast: from illicit trafficking of cigarettes to drug trafficking.

Facing Itatí, in Itá Corá, in the Paraguayan department of Ñeembucú, is one of the most permeable areas for drug trafficking in central and northern Paraguay, where about 55,000 hectares of Cannabis sativa are grown each year. About 10,000 tons of this medicine reach the Argentine market, some of which is destined for Chile.

IN ADDITION