On the morning of this Friday, the authorities confirmed the capture of the suspects in the murder of the Paraguayan anti-drug prosecutor Marcelo Peci, who received several impacts from bathes when he was enjoying his honeymoon on the beach of Baru, Cartagena.
the attorney general Francis Barbosa, reported on five captures linked to the case, which were made in Medellín.
“Through two search and search procedures carried out by the technical investigative body of the prosecutor’s office and the national police, five people were captured in the city of Medellin for his alleged participation in the murder of Mr. Marcelo Pecci” Barbosa pointed out.
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Four of those arrested are of Colombian nationality and one is Venezuelan. Justly, RCN news confirmed that the mastermind of the crime would be one of the compatriots.
To carry out the murder, “those involved in the case divided into three groups to travel to Cartagena. A 23-year-old woman and a man made a reservation at a well-known hotel in Cartagena and on a motorcycle they left for the place.
According to the investigation, they would have been entrusted with the mission of being by the prosecutor’s side and reporting each of his movements.
Subsequently, and according to the investigation known by the news, “Three men arrived.one Colombian and two of Venezuelan nationality, who rented an apartment in the sector of The Lake”.
The two foreigners were going to be in charge of assassinating the official, while the man from Cartagena would have to transfer them to the place where the prosecutor was staying.
Then the pair of “markers” met with the gang leader and arranged to spend the day at the hotel where the prosecutor was staying with his wife. there would be paid $2,700,000 to stay.
It should be remembered that Pecci was assassinated on May 10 on the island of Barú, near Cartagena, while he was enjoying his honeymoon with his wife, the Paraguayan journalist Claudia Aguilera, whom he had married in Asunción on April 30 and was expecting a child.
The 45-year-old prosecutor was investigating cases of drug trafficking and organized crime. His murder, committed by a hitman who arrived on a jet ski at the hotel beach Decameron where the couple was staying, shocked Paraguayan society.
