The prosecutor of San Isidro Caludio Scapolán, who He had been prosecuted in October of last year accused of being the head of an illicit association also made up of police officers that between 2013 and 2015 stole drug shipments and extorted money from drug traffickers, He was preventively removed from his duties by the Buenos Aires Prosecution Court, judicial sources reported.
Scapolán, who already had been licensed by the Supreme Court of Justice of Buenos Aires given the institutional seriousness of the crimes attributed to him, was removed after a vote in the Provincial Prosecution Courtwhich had 9 votes in favor of the removal and 2 against that sanction, so now the prosecutor was closer to an eventual arrest.
The first complaint against the prosecutor was made in the 2016 by former deputy Elisa Carrio and subsequently, by the federal judge of San Isidro Sandra Arroyo Salgado, who was in charge of the investigation in which Scapolán was prosecuted.
in 2019 competition was opened in the Buenos Aires Prosecution Court and the Attorney General of the Buenos Aires Supreme Court of Justice, Julio Conte Grand, made the accusation, but the pandemic prevented progress in the process.
Finally today, the Court discussed the preventive removal of the prosecutor, and finally decided to make room for that sanction.
“The Bicameral Commission will now be transferred so that it can decide whether or not it will accuse, the admissibility of the accusation will then be discussed and the prosecutor will be discharged and, if it is resolved that the accusation is admissible, its suspension will be ordered,” explained the source consulted by Télam.
The deputy prosecutor is accused of alleged illicit association and poor performance on suspicion of leading a gang of police officers who kept drugs seized from drug traffickers in operations, for subsequent marketing.
At the time of being processed, on October 1 of last year, Judge Arroyo Salgado also placed an embargo on the prosecutor’s assets for two billion pesos.
In that resolution -to which Télam agreed-, the judge prosecuted Scapolán for a total of ten crimes: head of an illicit association, aggravated instigator of false testimony, use of a false public document, reiterated ideological falsehood of a public document, theft of evidence, possession of narcotic drugs for marketing purposes doubly aggravated, passive bribery aggravated by his condition as an agent prosecutor, extortion, abuse of authority and breach of the duties of a public official.
Given the impossibility of arresting the judicial officer for the time being, The magistrate decided to defer his eventual arrest “until the impeachment is resolved.”
“This investigation managed to unmask that the tools and powers that many of the officials held were used illegally to instill fear in their victims, act with apparent impunity in the framework of criminal proceedings and distort the reality of the facts,” says one of the paragraphs of the resolution of the federal judge.
Arroyo Salgado maintained that the gang presumably led by the prosecutor and made up of several police officers from Buenos Aires acted “for the purpose of stealing narcotic material, coercing people to obtain financial gain, allowing the theft of belongings from raided people, and inventing and/or planting evidence against them.”
According to research, The organization is attributed the theft of at least 555 kilos of cocaine, 33,000 dollars and 386,000 pesos through extortion from drug traffickers.
The facts imputed to Scapolán are linked to the allegedly armed with cases between 2013 and 2015 when he was in charge of the former Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) of Complex Investigations of that judicial department, dissolved in 2016.
The most resounding of those forged procedures was the one known as “White Lions”, occurred in 2013 in Moreno, where a shipment of about a ton of cocaine was seized, although only half was officially consigned.
The federal prosecutor who was in charge of the investigation, Fernando Domínguez, accused 41 Buenos Aires police officers and three lawyers as members of that criminal organization presumably led by Scapolán.
At the moment, the case has more than 30 defendants, 15 of them with preventive detention, and two judicial secretaries of Scapolán who had initially been detained and prosecuted, were released for lack of merit last December, as a result of a ruling by the Federal Chamber of San Martín.
