Former National Police Director Mario Layera now pointed to National Rehabilitation Institute (INR) and said that this was the authority responsible for authorizing the 13 “conjugal” visits of the drug dealer Gerardo Gonzalez Valenciaalias “El Cuini”, the Italian mobster Rocco Morabito before his escape in 2019, and targeted his former director Gonzalo Larrosacurrent police chief of Flores.
Layera’s version is far from the one he presented in December 2022 before the prosecutor Ricardo Lackner – who is no longer leading the cause of Morabito’s escape –, where he stated that the decision to authorize the transfers of González Valencia was “political” and was It was due to the violation of his human rights, as the former Minister of the Interior Eduardo Bonomi had told him. “In the sense that the minister gives it (the order to transfer it)”said on December 15 about the leader of the Broad Front who died in 2022.
“General Commissioner Gonzalo Larrosa was the director at the time the visits were resolved”said Layera in an interview with Desayunos Informales (Channel 12), and emphasized the fact that neither he nor any INR authority, in his opinion “the people who adopted that resolution” of the visitswere cited in the case. “You should at least listen to them”said the former police chief.
Larrosa was in charge of the Institute from March 2017 to November 2018. He was dismissed that month after it became known that provided false information regarding the death of an inmate.
However, the former director of the Republican Guard Alfredo Clavijo He assured that Layera was informed about the transfers in cabinet meetings of the Ministry of the Interior. “Every time we moved it, we communicated it (to Layera),” said.
Clavijo also targeted the INR authorities and the Central Jail, who indicated the transfer times.
“Of course he was aware” of “that these transfers were going to take place,” Layera clarified this Tuesday. However, he pointed out that he was only aware of the movements, but not “of the meetings between González Valencia and Morabito”. He also emphasized that he does not hold Bonomi responsible for what happened, since “There was no authorization for (González Valencia) to meet” by the Ministry of the Interior.
Clavijo assured in his statement to the court that the transfer of González Valencia from the former Comcar to the Republican Guard was decided by Layera. This was due, according to the former director of the Guard, to the fact that after a search of his cell, information was obtained that was having communication with the outside and “managements to buy custody”in addition to the fact that as a result of the requisition González Valencia He threatened Minister Bonomi that he was going to hang him from a bridge.
Clavijo explained that “an infrastructure was going to be generated and that is why a container was installed in the Republican Guard” and since the container had little privacy They transferred him to the Central Jail so that he could have conjugal visits there.
He also recounted that the drug trafficker He asked to have gym classes and asked to have a place to have a barbecue that was authorized. Clavijo said that these decisions were made by the INR and that it is common for the cells inside to have televisions and a barbecue. “I didn’t find it strange”he claimed.
The former Police Director shared that “Under the circumstances, exceptional measures were taken” that he understands corresponded to the situation because “They managed to get him extradited.”
