The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) issued a red notice for the arrest of Daniel Oscar Cherutti, accused in Argentina for crimes against humanity committed during the last civil-military dictatorship, judicial sources reported today.
The international arrest warrant against Cherutti was ordered by federal judge Daniel Rafecas, who investigates it for unlawful deprivation of liberty, torture, kidnapping of minors and accessory to murder.
Rafecas investigates a case in which there are already five detainees charged with criminal activity in the clandestine detention center “Automotores Orletti”, which was active in the Floresta neighborhood of Buenos Aires during the dictatorship.
Interpol’s red notice is “a request addressed to law enforcement agencies around the world to locate and provisionally detain a person pending extradition or surrender, or similar legal action,” the organization clarifies.
According to the file, Cherutti – 76 years old, born in the Buenos Aires city of Cañuelas and brother of actor and comedian Miguel Ángel Cherutti – acted there as an agent of the former Secretary of State Intelligence (SIDE).
The other defendants are Patricio Finnen, Rubén Escobar, César Albarracín and Hugo Carlet.
Cherutti, who just turned 76 this Wednesday, would be living in Italy and, like the other defendants, would have been a member of the paramilitary band commanded by Aníbal Gordon.
Gordon was a member of the Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance (Triple A), created by José López Rega, and was found guilty of the murders of Silvio Frondizi (brother of former President Arturo Frondizi) and Peronist lawyer Rodolfo Ortega Peña, among others.
In the case where Cherutti is accused, Judge Rafecas investigates the kidnapping of more than 100 people, the robbery of at least two minors and twenty homicides in which the defendant is involved.
