Colombian authorities captured two people allegedly linked to the murder of Paraguayan anti-mafia prosecutor Marcelo Pecci, who was shot at last May on an island near Cartagena de Indias, local media reported this Saturday.
Two men, identified as Andrés and Ramónwere arrested in the early hours of this Friday in Bogotá and the Andean town of Rionegro, neighboring Medellín, and will be brought before a judge on Sunday, reported the newspaper El Tiempo.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the detainees were in charge of the logistics of the crime and the delivery of the money to Francisco Luis Correa, considered by the justice as the mastermind of the murder.
Meanwhile, judicial sources indicated that the capture of Margaret, wife of one of those arrested, was frustrated, that he would be in El Salvador, reported the magazine La Semana.
Pecci, 45, a prosecutor specializing in drug trafficking and money laundering, was shot on May 10 on a beach on the island of Barú, near Cartagenawhile spending his honeymoon with his wife, the journalist Claudia Aguilera.
The attack was carried out by hitmen who arrived on a jet ski.
Colombian authorities stopped operations carried out last June Correa and four other people for the murder, and the latter confessed their responsibility and were sentenced to 23 years in prison each.
Nevertheless, Correa pleaded not guilty and remains on trial.
While, The alleged murderer of the prosecutor, Gabriel Carlos Luis Salinas, was arrested last December in Caracas.
According to information from the Colombian Police, Salinas is the one who, apparently, was driving the jet ski “in which the murderer was mobilized” and that he took him to the beach of the Barú hotel where Pecci spent his honeymoon with his wife.
Colombia asked Venezuela for his extradition, but the Government of that country said that it will not do so because its Constitution prohibits it.
The United States offered a reward of five million dollars to those who provide information about those responsible.
Throughout the international investigation, some criminal organizations emerged as suspects. such as the Brazilian PCC (Primeiro Comando da Capital), the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua and the Paraguayan Clan Insfrán.
Pecci, specialized in organized crime, drug trafficking, money laundering and terrorist financing, he had investigated gangs from Brazil, as well as Lebanese money launderers from the Triple Border of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina.
