The investigation into the murder of the Paraguayan prosecutor against organized crime, Marcelo Pecci, continues and in the last hours the hypotheses put on the table, as possible responsible for the crime, the name of the Uruguayan wanted by the Interpol for crimes related to drug trafficking, Sebastián Marset.
According to the testimony given by the leader of the criminal gang that committed the hitman, Francisco Luis Correa Galeano – which was released by the Colombian media Time- The murder was commissioned by the Clan Insfrán organization, a drug cartel led by Miguel Ángel Insfrán in conjunction with Marset.
Correa Galeano spoke with the Justice in order to prevent him from being extradited to the United States. In the dialogue with the authorities, he indicated that two Colombian brothers from the “Los Paisas” cartel contacted him to commit the crime. These brothers would be intermediaries of a person related to Clan Insfrán.
In his statements, the detainee indicated that he received 2,000 million Colombian pesos (about 500,000 US dollars) for the “work.” Likewise, he assured that both the money and the data necessary to locate and kill Pecci originated “directly from Paraguay.”
Marset and the false passport
Sebastián Marset, 30 years old, is a target of Interpol for multiple crimes related to drug trafficking. At the beginning of the year he was imprisoned in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) for entering the country with a false passport from Paraguay (from where the warrant for his arrest was issued). However, in February the subject received a Uruguayan passport, with which he was able to regain his freedom.
According to what is indicated from the Ministry of the Interior to The R Journal then, the Uruguayan obtained his passport since he did not have a criminal record, nor did he have causes against him nationally or internationally. After his release, Interpol issued a red alert, for which he has been wanted ever since.
The delivery of the identity document was questioned by the opposition. In March, the parliamentary caucus of the Broad Front even submitted a request for information.
Since 2013 Marset lived in Paraguay because in Uruguay after he was prosecuted in Uruguay for various drug trafficking crimes. In the Guarani country, he created a fundamental operational network for drug trafficking (mainly cocaine) to Europe and Africa, which left from different points in the region.
Paraguayan Prosecutor’s Office disapproves statements by Colombian media
After the Colombian newspaper published Correa Galeano’s statements and what would be the main hypothesis managed by the Paraguayan authorities, the Paraguayan prosecutor for International Affairs, Manel Doldán, discredited the detainee’s statements.
“I don’t know where the Colombian media claims to have agreed to a conversation or negotiation between the Prosecutor’s Office and one of the detainees,” said the official in a conversation with the radio. March 1consigned by The nation from Paraguay.
“It is a source, unfortunately, of misinformation. I don’t know what the purpose of these Colombian media is. They listen to hypotheses, based on those hypotheses they make conjectures, based on those conjectures they disseminate information that is not true and what is the objective of that I have not the slightest idea, ”he criticized.
Doldán assured that the Paraguayan Prosecutor’s Office handles “many investigative lines” of the events. “They are really speculations that do not help much in the investigation of the case,” the official concluded.
