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Judge Armando Zeballos, of the Tenth Precautionary Criminal Investigation Court, yesterday ordered the preventive detention of Lieutenant Colonel Iván LI, for five months in the San Pedro prison, for his alleged participation in the femicide of Vania Trujillo. The main defendant is his son, Vladimir.
The precautionary hearing lasted more than six hours. The victim’s defense attorney, Laura Crespo, explained that the judge issued that resolution because the day her son was summoned to testify, “he appeared at the Felcc and from there he left with his father, from that He was never seen again that day.”
The soldier affirmed that his son beat him and that is why he did not appear before the authorities or attend the legal autopsy in which he would have promised to participate.
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“The father said that he was attacked and that he had two days of disability, but he never showed us any documents,” said the lawyer.
Vania Trujillo was found dead at her home; apparently, she had taken her own life. However, the autopsy showed that the 36-year-old woman had been strangled and the main suspect in the crime is her partner, Vladimir.
Crespo assured that now they are looking for the defendant’s stepmother to also testify as a witness, since in the precautionary hearing of the lieutenant colonel, it was learned that she helped the couple return in January of this year, after a fight that they had.
“We know that the son had help from the stepmother,” said Crespo, indicating that she is a member of the organization Juana Azurduy de Padilla, from Beni, an NGO that helps women protect their rights.
It is known that the lieutenant colonel’s defense will appeal the judge’s determination.
