They think he went back to Brazil. The dry border is an ideal channel, which also would not present any difficulties for an expert like Stefanía Quirque, who, a fugitive from Uruguayan Justice, came to live in Brazil and travel to Europe. His ornate criminal history It includes three attempted murders “for love” worthy of a soap opera, two movie escapes and drug trafficking on the border, with scenes typical of a mainstream series.
weighs on her sentence of more than 10 years in Brazil for drug trafficking on the border that involved surveillance operations, mules and false testimonies. Brazilian jurisprudence and a decision by Judge Beatriz Larrieu, which was later followed by an omission due to lack of resources from the Ministry of the Interior, left Quirque free.
She was forced to go to the Brazilian prison in 2017 for flight risk, but in the second instance she was released and he was allowed to await the final sentence in freedom. He requested to be able to travel to Uruguay, his country of origin. They granted it with the exception that, if the sentence was carried out, he had to return to the northern country to serve it.
He lived quietly in the country until the beginning of August last year, when his sentence was confirmed and a red alert was issued for his arrest.
Judge Larrieu did not grant the request of the Prosecutor’s Office to keep her in preventive detention for 40 days while the extradition was being processed. He considered that house arrest was sufficient and ordered that an electronic anklet be placed on her but “if this is not possible, (it should be monitored) by means of a daily control by the police authority corresponding to the home.”
The Ministry of the Interior, which did not have anklets available, indicated that three times a day a police officer would go to see if Quirque was at home. The hearing was on August 7 and on Tuesday, September 14, he escaped.
Then, the magistrate, in statements to Punto de Encuentro (Universal) stated that she understood that these measures were sufficient. “From Brazil they said that there was no risk, that she had collaborated in all the stages”, he claimed. In addition, he lamented the lack of anklets and assured that it is a common problem. Quirque responded “totally” when Larrieu asked him if he understood the risks he was taking if he absconded. He pointed out that he had to take care of his grandmother with whom he lived and because he had started a craft business.
Police sources told The Observer that the strongest suspicion is that he is in Brazil, a country in which, in another of his adventures, he had obtained false documents. In these months they have not received any information – not even false – about his whereabouts. But this is only the last chapter of his record. The previous one, which took place on the border between Brazil and Uruguay, is typical of a drug movie.
She was arrested along with her partner, Sergio Suárez – linked to the Narcos Carolinos de San Carlos group – when transported 40 kilograms of cocaine from Brazil to Uruguay through the Chuy. Their cell phones were seized and they were able to prove that they had an organized organization.
His main destinations were Florianopolis and Uruguay. They were working with a mule who had been promised US$4,000.
Of the 40 kilograms of cocaine they were transporting, one was hidden in the lining and bodywork of the vehicle. When questioned, they justified the trips by saying that they planned to open a beauty salon in Rio de Janeiro, but had given up due to the high level of violence. As for their assets, they answered that they lived on rents from houses they had in Piriápolis.
The lover who couldn’t kill
The third time was not the charm for Quirque and architect Martín Somoza, who were ineffective in their attempts to end the life of accountant Claudia Pereira in 2008. Pereira and Somoza (both 35 at the time) had been married. almost 10, she had already forgiven him for a slip, but the architect was unfaithful again with Quirque (25 years old), his co-worker. between the two, they tried to kill her three times. The first was on February 12. To do this, they hired a hitman.
While Somoza waited for her in the car, the accountant went up to her apartment. The assassin was waiting for her inside her and attacked her from behind. She shot him twice, once in the abdomen and once in the finger, according to the report published in the book “Historias de Sicarios”, by the former director of Security and Coexistence of the Interior, Gustavo Leal. She wanted to empty the magazine but her bullets wouldn’t come out of it. He tied her up and gagged her with ties with which he tried to hang her.
He thought she was dead and left, but then he saw on television that she was admitted to the ICU of the British Hospital, which would be the scene of the second attempt. Quirque entered the CTI with a blonde wig and disguised as a nurse. She injected him with what he believed was a deadly dose of insulin. If one of the spouses died before May, all their assets would go to the other, since they had begun a process of dividing assets.
This was the trigger for the third attempt, which occurred on April 13. The same assassin from the first attempt together with a teenager from her family waited for her at the door of her sister’s house in Parque Batlle. He was shot 13 times. Her speed in turning her vehicle around and her uncle managing to hug her saved her life.
“Is this woman crazy or unbeatable, I thought. She is a cat (…) I am not to blame if the woman is a ghost. (…) The uncle became a shield, the woman even had a shield. That looked like the great ones!”, recounted the hitman in the book.
The investigation of the then judge Graciela Gatti ended with the prosecution of both and the assassins involved. Somoza and Quirque as “co-authors of homicide especially aggravated by premeditation.”
The escape that preceded the escape
After imprisonment, in November 2011 she escaped from the Women’s Prison (Unit 5 of the INR) during visiting hours. At that time she escaped to Brazil, but she returned to Uruguay months later, where she was recaptured in 2012 in Las Toscas (Canelones) where she lived with Suárez, her partner and member of a drug gang.
At that time, she had a false Italian passport that had long been reported stolen in Montevideo, with which she had traveled to Spain and Brazil, for which a new crime was added (forgery of passport as co-author in real reiteration).
cold and calculating
“You meet robbers, rapists, murderers and a human streak always appears, even if it’s fake, but not in her”, a judicial operator who was involved in one of his cases told The Observer. Another person who had dealings with her described her as an educated and extremely distant woman. She cold and calculating.
In its different times, it was always accompanied by a reduced “environment” that facilitated certain businesses or possibilities.
