Carlos Chamorro Portillo, a special agent discovered with an economic promotion that does not match his salary in the National Anti-Drug Secretariat, reacted yesterday in a WhatsApp group referring to the journalistic publications that led to his exclusion from the Sensitive Intelligence Unit (SIU), supported by by foreign allies. “I have already collected solid evidence about the person who devised and the group of people who supported this media campaign,” he refers in his suggestive message that points to a discretionary management of intelligence resources to, as he rightly points out, “collect” information that it affects their particular interests and not precisely a State mission. The situation is extremely serious because it is an institution that is in charge of administering reserved and sometimes classified information related to the internal security of the Republic, with which at the same time a very high exposure is generated for anyone who dares to question a special agent. .
Source: The Nation
Rossana Escobar M. [email protected]
Obfuscated and with a threatening tone, the special agent Carlos Francisco Chamorro Portillo appeared in a WhatsApp groupthe same person who served as a researcher in the Sensitive Intelligence Unit (SIU) of the National Anti-Drug Secretariat (Senad) until he was discovered through an investigation by Nación Media with his meteoric economic rise in record time while in public office.
Both he and his wife Natalia Berenicce Bareiro, both assigned to the SIU, are of modest origin, and in 7 years in the Senad they became luxuries. Chamorro and the woman entered public service in 2015, the first declared an asset of G. 65 million, while she had the maximum assets she had was a cell phone that she paid in installments at that time.
But in the last year the couple went on to register assets for G. 518 million. This equates to a equity increase of 700% in relation to those consigned in their first affidavits presented before the Comptroller General of the Republic.
This series of revelations that cost him his disassociation from the SIU and reintegration into the base of the Senadin addition to the photographic evidence that shows that a 2023 Toyota Hilux pickup truck, whose value is around US$ 65,000, was released recently, motivated the special agent to make a statement in a WhatsApp group where there are elite members of the institution.
The Nación Investiga corroborated the message and the telephone number of Chamorro, who appears with emojis of a heart next to the flags of Paraguay and the United Statesconsidering that SIU is coordinated by a foreign intelligence agency.
DISCRETIONARY USE OF RESOURCES
Chamorro, first of all, confirms what sources were already reporting, the tense internal atmosphere in the Senad. In his message via Whatsapp he talks about take sides and start a “political, social and labor” war within the institutionalthough he remarks that he will not ventilate the “dirty laundry”, suggesting the very high corruption that is handled as an open secret within the institution.
On the other hand, it reveals that within the Anti-drug Secretariat there are “brotherhood” groups, as a kind of internal lodges, warning that he will look for those responsible who allegedly leaked his data. Data, worth the clarification, that are recorded in public reports that were accessed by the La Nación Investiga team, through different institutions.
Even, and what is even more serious, warns that already collected data from those who allegedly aired their luxuriesSaid that points to the use of technical investigative resources to invade the privacy of their own colleagues, and the “culprit” of the leaks to the press.
UNCONTROL
This clearly demonstrates that the administration of the Minister Zully Rolón is in a total collapse, because while issuing statements with the aim of intimidating the press to prevent the names of questioned special agents from being revealed, internally in the institution a excessive war for alleged facts of corruption.
Added to this is the danger to national security that special agents declare internal warsbeing they who, with an excess of their functions, use elements of the State for a persecution whose scope cannot be measured, where they can even expose anyone to high-risk situations.
Reliable and fully identified sources explained to La Nación/Nación Media the steps of how supposedly They seek data from people to use them at their discretion, from intercepting communications, tracking with trackers, and interested visits.
The data makes sense considering, for example, the series of leaks of investigations into cartels that were also evidenced by La Nación Investiga, such as those that occurred in the framework of the A Ultranza Py operation, where even the criminal organization targeted by the investigation was warned of interception work on a drug plane and wiretapping. Key warnings, since the alleged bosses of the drug scheme, such as Miguel Insfrán, alias Tío Rico, and the Uruguayan Sebastián Marset, to date have not been arrested.
