Record billionaire drug gang embargo: over 30 billion pesos

The figure is fundamentally impressive because it is an absolute record: thirty thousand two hundred million embargo pesos. A long number: $ 30,200,000,000. This is the amount that economic criminal judge Pablo Yadarola imposed on the Atachahua clan, led by the nationalized Peruvian Argentine. Carlos Sein Atachahua Espinoza (51).

Until this decision, the most important embargo on a drug gang had been imposed, also by Yadarola, against the clan of brothers Salta Gonzalo and Erwin Loza. An amount of 7,400,000 million pesos was imposed on them in January 2019, considering that they were laundering money derived from drug activity carried out over 20 years.

The 166-page resolution includes the money laundering prosecution of drug trafficking of Atachahua, his daughter Naddya Lebina Atachahua del Aguila (26), his accountant Miguel Angel García Ramos (47) and his wife, Carla Violeta Correa Castañeda.

Furthermore, he viewed them all as part of an illicit association, with Atachahua at the helm and García Ramos as the second most important within the organization. The only person who was rescued from pre-trial detention was Atachahua’s daughter, who had not been arrested during operations in late October, when the gang fell.

The case that erupted on Wednesday, October 21 with a mega operation carried out by the gendarmerie of the city of Buenos Aires which attracted the attention of the whole world and was mistaken for a raid against underground exchange offices.

A central figure in the story, who was exposed on the day of the raids, was the financier Diego Xavier Guastini (45) who declared himself repentant and gave basic information against Atachahua.

Atachahua had been one of his best clients, with whom he may have managed more money in his career as a senior drug launderer in Argentina. Guastini provided company names, details of real estate purchases and even overseas cocaine shipments.

“Dolarín” – as some called him Guastini – was also accused in this case by Pablo Yadarola, but the criminal action against him was declared extinct. The reason: was Killed by contract killers on October 29, 2019, just ten days after testifying for the last time to investigators in Procunar.

Guastini not only helped Atachahua settle in the country with his family when he decided to emigrate permanently. He also created a partnership with his mother (OTBA SA) just to give Atachahua and his wife a job and have a virgin income.

But in 2018, the relationship broke. Who had been one of his main clients went to launder money with a former employee who had opened his own business.

Everything coincided with the denunciation of Diego Guastini in the media of a case of “mules” of money, for which in September 2019 he ended up signing an abridged trial for only three years in prison. Some time before, his name had appeared in the newspapers because he was the last person to see the financier Hugo Diaz alive, missing since March 2015.

At this time of estrangement and problems with judge Diego Guastini began to declare himself repentant before the Procunar and to transmit data on Atachahua. He did this three times, twice in October 2018 and once in October 2019, days before a hitman was sent to kill him.

He had previously given information about him to AFI so that in 2018 cases against the Peruvian began to flourish through different jurisdictions based mainly on anonymous names.

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