Gómez transferred from Complex Crimes to the prosecutor investigating Morabito's escape

The Prosecutor for Economic Crimes and 2nd turn complexes, Ricardo Lacknerwill leave his position to move to the Cybercrime Unit that will begin to function on January 1, 2023confirmed to The Observer sources of the Prosecutor’s Office

The Accountability provided funds to this unit with the aim of providing advice to prosecutors. As they told The Observer from the Attorney General’s Office, the transfer of Lackner is linked to the commissioning of that unit and the fact that the official specialized in the subject.

In this sense, they recalled that the prosecutor recently participated in an international seminar on issues related to cybercrime. The transfer was informed in the first instance by the program This is how it goes from Radio Carve.

Lackner has been investigating for three years the escape of Italian mobster Rocco Morabitowho escaped from Cárcel Central in June 2019 and went recaptured in Brazil in May 2021.

The only accusation that the public prosecutor managed – in the framework of this case – was that of a captain of the republican guardwhich was completed in July of this year.

The policeman was accused of repeated abuses of duties and was being investigated for arranging 12 transfers without a warrant of Gerardo González Valencia, a Mexican drug trafficker – a member of Los Cuinis – who was also imprisoned in the Central Jail and who was extradited to the United States.

in 2020 The Observer reported that the then court prosecutor, Jorge Díaz, had been “following carefully” the situation of the Lackner prosecutor’s office due to its low average number of imputations. Díaz carried out a “monthly analysis of the figures”, since he noted a performance that did not meet his expectations due to the “low level of resolution”.

Accountability

In July of this year, in the framework of the discussion of accounts, Juan Gómez had argued the need that a specialized cybercrime unit be created within the prosecutor’s office, with thewith the intention that he can advise tax teams throughout the country.

“I take this opportunity – so as not to waste too much time – to begin to say that we believe that we have the reasons to convince, with the greatest of respect, the legislators, on one of the two issues that I am willing to fight, in a good way“Gómez began by saying.

Gabriela Aguirre, director of the International Area in the Prosecutor’s Office, was in charge of a large part of the exhibition, in which He pointed out that for years this type of crime has been on the rise and that it had a large increase during the pandemic. In this sense, he pointed out that They have had problems in collecting evidence that hinders international cooperation.

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