In Brazil, a Diprove intelligence chief falls for supplying weapons to criminal organizations

Bolivian Police Second Lieutenant Alexander Velásquez Choque, who served as chief of intelligence of the Directorate for the Prevention of Vehicle Theft (Diprove) in Cobija-Pando, he was apprehended in flagrante delicto by the Federal and Civil Police of Brazil, with weapons to supply the criminal factions of the neighboring country.

The capture of the Bolivian agent took place early Wednesday morning in Xapuri, whom Several firearms, ammunition and even ballistic vests were found on him.

According to preliminary information from Police Department to Combat Robbery and Extortion (Dcore), Second Lieutenant He would be supplying weapons to criminal factions that operated in Acre, for which the uniformed Civil Police and the Federal Highway Police followed up and set up a fence in Capixaba and Xapuri, achieving his arrest, according to the Brazilian media outlet Correo 68.

The Bolivian police officer’s credential/Photo: Correo 68.

Velásquez was transferred to the Xapuri Police Station for the arrest proceedings and will be made available to Justice. Moreover, the Brazilian Civil Police is also investigating the possible involvement of Bolivian police officers in motorized robberies that occurred on the border, since it is known that the deputy lieutenant captured was also engaged in the business of selling stolen cars, interning luxury vehicles stolen in Brazil.

According to the information, the vehicles were moved by their drivers and accomplices of Velásquez. to Riberalta, but he was not only dedicated to this illicitbut also to steal weapons from his comrades in the Cobija police command, weapons that he sold to groups of drug traffickers and criminals, such as the PCC and the commando Vermelho.

The weapons that were in the hands of the Bolivian police officer belong to his own comrades, spray gas from the unit, a 9mm caliber Spanish Star machine gun and bulletproof vests from the unit and the departmental command that he stole on several dates. It is known that the superiors wanted to hide the case, in addition that there are more involved in the theft of weapons and business with criminals in Brazil.

The weapons seized by the Brazilian Police/Photo: Correo 68.

At the time of his arrest, the second lieutenant refrained from testifying/Photo: Correo 68.