2023-07-29 22:00:00
The case investigating the brutal murder of Fernando Perez Algaba (41), the trader Argentinian who appeared dismembered in the Buenos Aires town of Ingeniero Budge, is focused on reconstructing what his last hours were like. Who did he communicate with, what places did he visit and who did he meet with are some of the questions that the detectives seek to uncover in order to find out who decided to take his life and why.
The economic track is the main line of investigation followed by the prosecutor Marcelo Domínguez. But not the only one. The amount of debt he had accumulated and the threats virtually constant payments he received reinforce the theory of a money-related reckoning. What is striking is the mechanics of the crime. Not that they executed him with two shots to the chest, as the forensic medical report revealed, but why his remains were dismembered, wrapped in bags, and thrown into a suitcase that, curiously, contained four ID cards.
If the intention was to make it difficult to identify the body, it is not understood why they did not check the red suitcase well. Actually, everything would seem to indicate that the objective was another: to give a message. Directed to whom?
A dismembered body in a suitcase is a mafia sign. In fact, the most recent precedents are related to executions by transnational drug organizations or crimes by the so-called Chinese mafia (see separate).
In the round of suspects for the trader’s crime, characters of all kinds appear: bars, drug traffickers, trans, businessmen and even investors like the victim.
A series of audios sent by Pérez Algaba point once morest Gustavo Iglesias and his son Nazareno, two characters linked to “La 12”, as the Boca barra brava is known.
Given the suspicion, both decided to get right. They appeared with their lawyers at the Domínguez prosecutor’s office, acknowledged the messages and the debt that Pérez Algaba supposedly had with them, but denied any type of relationship with the homicide.
The dismembered businessman had 200 messages with threats and debts of more than 3 million dollars
“I’m not going to kill you, I’m going to do something worse to you, I’m going to gouge out your eyes and cut off your hands so you can’t count any more money”, says Iglesias in one of the messages sent to the victim.
Another name that appears mentioned in various audios is Nahuel Vargas, another alleged victim of Pérez Algaba. Last February, Vargas filed a complaint for threats in Ituzaingó.
The trader’s friends who testified as witnesses so far agreed that Pérez Algaba “had debts with different creditors.” However, none of them might provide a name or any information to guide investigators regarding the possible perpetrators of the crime.
According to the data provided by his closest circle, the businessman used to move in a 2012 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque 4×4 truck. The shot appeared yesterday. He had an alleged partner of the victim and took her to the Lomas de Zamora Departmental Directorate of Investigations (DDI). Why did it take so long to deliver it?
From the environment of “Lettuce”, as the victim was nicknamed, they disbelieve the mafia versions. “He always helped many people and several partners screwed up,” said one of his contacts.
“I don’t know where it came from, strange if he was a shitter as some say, who was always in the same area, frequented the same places, showed his movements on the networks, and so on. Now he was plotting and building a neighborhood in General Rodríguez”, he pointed out.
His brother Rodolfo also expressed himself along these lines: “He went to look for money and, for me, they followed him and killed him for money,” he said in a television interview. Like the investigators, the man also focused on the issue of dismemberment: “If he had been shot, you might think it was a settling of scores, but what doesn’t close to me is that they cut him up the way they cut him up.” , understood.
Pérez Algaba had his Instagram account unlocked and more than 900,000 followers. He was very active on social networks and everyone might access his content, a fact that is at least striking for a person who supposedly owed money and received constant death threats.
Debts and companies. The accounting records of the businessman, who lived in Barcelona and had recently returned to Argentina to close new deals, were in the red like two of the three registered companies he had in the country.
Pérez Algaba totals twelve rejected checks for a value of 929,200 pesos, although this debt was from one of his companies: Motors Lettuce.
This firm, formed in January 2018, is listed as “retail sale by mail, television and other media” as its main activity, and had it in partnership with his brother Rodolfo.
Until May 2020, the victim was also listed as president of the firm Cegepa SA, dedicated to the sale of cars, trucks, and utility vehicles. A year later, the company changed its name and owners: it was renamed Tonnelier SA.
According to the Central Bank (BCRA) registry, Cegepa has seven rejected checks for a value of 2,530,000 pesos. In addition, the murdered trader appears as a partner of an LLC called Luxury Scissors, dedicated to the business of hairdressing, aesthetics and beauty, cosmetology and pedicure, among other things.
“Debtors are not murderers”
The lawyer for Gustavo and Nazareno Iglesias, two of Fernando Pérez Algaba’s debtors, also questioned the economic motive. “I am convinced that these people to whom he owed money are not the ones who committed the crime,” said Rodrigo González, in statements to Radio con Vos.
“Fernando was a super reliable kid, everyone gave him credit. Then he begins to change his profile in the pandemic and begins to dedicate himself more to cryptocurrencies, and to borrow money from many people,” said González, adding: “He cannot return the money and strangely from one day to the next he disappears from the country, He goes to Europe, and they don’t find him anymore.”
Regarding the statement made by his defendants, the lawyer recalled that they talked regarding the content of the audios and provided information regarding the victim. “They said everything they knew regarding him until they stopped having contact,” González explained.
“Fernando borrowed money from the cryptocurrency business, he returned it. Then he asks her once more, pays him two or three installments of what he had promised with interest, and then he disappears. In total, it is regarding 30 thousand dollars that he does not return, ”said the lawyer.
The version of one of his friends
Among the witnesses who gave testimony this week is one of the victim’s best friends: Lucas Matilla.
The man spoke of his friendship with Fernando and assured that he has known him for eleven years. According to judicial sources, Matilla confirmed that his friend was engaged in the purchase and sale of cryptocurrencies and assured that this activity had not gone well for him, although he clarified that at one point “he was able to recover.” For Matilla, Pérez Algaba’s main activity was the sale of motorcycles and cars in the Ituzaingó area.
The witness has another point in common with the victim: both were denounced in a case that is being processed in Federal Court 2 of Morón.
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