2023-08-07 02:00:00
Businessman Fernando Perez Algaba (41) was found shot to death and dismembered inside a suitcase that was in the Arroyo del Rey in the town of Ingeniero Budge, Lomas de Zamora district of Buenos Aires. For the fact there is only one detainee: Nicol Alma Chamorrowhile “so far there are 36 hypotheses” regarding the motive for the crime.
The remains were found by some children who were playing ball in the place on Sunday, July 23. As reported, the investigators of the case first detected the man’s forearms and legs, while a machine that collects garbage from those waters allowed the discovery of a complete arm and thanks to the survey of fingerprints he might be identified. Besides, it was possible to confirm that it was Pérez Algaba by a tattoo with four letters that he held in one of his hands.
Case of Pérez Algaba: the girlfriend of the dismembered businessman testified and handed over his cell phone for an expert
In the town of Ituzaingó, a case was being processed for the disappearance of the businessman and a woman declared in a decentralized prosecutor’s office in this town that the man had rented her an apartment and that she should return the keys at the end of the contract on July 19. It was precisely that woman who reported the disappearance when she had not heard from the tenant or received a response to her messages.
The authorities suspect that he had already been murdered by that date., though why and where they did it is unknown. The autopsy on the remains found allowed us to establish that he was killed with three bullets and then dismembered and placed his body in a suitcase.
The investigation of the case is in charge of the Lomas de Zamora prosecutor Marcelo Domínguez of the Functional Instruction Unit No. 5, who ordered Chamorro to be arrested, since the suitcase in which the businessman’s remains appeared would have been stolen. For now, She is the only defendant in the aggravated homicide case.although as a secondary participant, since the investigation suggests that he might have contributed the suitcase.
The main clue handled by investigators points to an economic mobile, although no one rules out other motivations. The victim, who did business with cryptocurrencies and for many years bought and sold cars, had been threatened by money debts. Among the individuals identified, two individuals linked to the Boca Juniors bar stand out, who in recent days spontaneously appeared before the intervening prosecutor’s office and denied any connection to the homicide.
Who was Fernando Pérez Algaba?
The victim served as traderhad a high-end car rental company in the United States and was qualified as an “irrecoverable” agent for its debts in the Argentine financial system.
As he himself recounted in an interview he gave last March to PROFILE, he began working as a food delivery man at the age of 14, later he worked in different trades within the gastronomic sector and, later, he was a motorcycle mechanic and sold trips for graduates in Bariloche. Considered “a good salesman”, in his youth the businessman began reselling motorcycles and medium and high-end vehicles, which led him to “to found a company that operates both in the United States and in Argentina”.
“Cooper” appeared, the dismembered businessman’s dog, and they believe it might lead to the murderers
The man, nicknamed “Lettuce“, had resided until the beginning of this year in the city of Miami, where He owned the firm Enjoy Rental Cardedicated to the rental of high-end vehicles, as well as jet skis and boats in the state of Florida, with offices also in Buenos Aires.
During the last years, the entrepreneur was dedicated to the purchase and sale of assets and financial derivatives on the Forex and Cryptocurrency platforms in an apartment in Puerto Madero, where it had more than 25 employees. However, for a few months he had lived in the Spanish city of Barcelona, from where he traveled to Argentina to stay for a week in July in an apartment of the Ituzaingó district of Buenos Aires.
According to the researchers, the businessman would have joint-stock companies with fancy names They only have social networks, which were taken down. In addition to various goodwill, and a company dedicated to the sale of cars: Motors Lettuce SRL. In his accounting records, the man was listed in situation 5, classified as “irrecoverable”, with a financial debt in banking entities of $1,227,000.
Since November of that 2018, according to the records, Pérez Algaba with his company Motors Lettuce SRL begins to register lack of funds to cover their checks, first for 144,000 pesos; in December for 294,400 pesos; in August 2019 for 100,000 pesos; in September 2019 for 64,000 pesos; October 2019 for 64,000 pesos and November for 119,000 pesos. In addition, in May 2019 he was appointed substitute director of the company CEGEPA SA, with legal address at Avenida Juan B. Justo 600, in the Federal Capital.
Nicol Alma Chamorro, the only detainee
In Pérez Algaba’s pocket there were four DNI, belonging to Nicol’s family. When the Buenos Aires Police identified their owners, they found them in a house in Villa Fiorito (Lomas de Zamora). With that accusation Chamorro was arrested and clothes were kidnapped from her house to examine with some stains that at first were believed to be blood, but turned out to be “remains of sauce” since the defendant was cooking when she was arrested.
The laboratory study cleared up the suspicion when it was verified that the stains were not even blood, despite the fact that biological traces had been found in the woman’s house, located a few blocks from where the dismembered body was found.
The trans woman, who lived on the streets and was identified by her own family as the owner of that suitcase, remains detained at the Roberto Pettinato Departmental Warden in the city of La Plata and refused to testify during the investigation. For her part, her lawyer, Leonardo Cáceres, insisted on the innocence of his client and assured that between her and the businessman there would be “no link”.
In this sense, Marcelo Ponce, Chamorro’s defense attorney, indicated that the detainee denied having participated in the macabre murder. “Her first words from him were that he is totally innocent, that he had no contact and that he doesn’t remember anything regarding that bag,” he said.
Despite the fact that it was a short dialogue by phone call between the two, Ponce remarked that his client “He rules out having known and having a link with Algaba”. In addition, he pointed out that Chamorro does not remember or consider having close ones who were capable of committing such an atrocity or who have told him anything regarding it.
Death threats and the request for the weapon
The investigations seek to clarify the motivations for the murder and thus find the perpetrator or perpetrators, although in the course of the investigation they warned that the businessman had several enemies and received death threats by numerous people to whom he owed money. According to judicial sources, the businessman had received regarding 200 messages with threats from different people.
“He had friends and acquaintances of twine, he began to move it in the circuit until one day he lost and started owing a lot of people“, explained a spokesperson to the agency telam regarding what would be one of the most important hypotheses of the investigation, that the businessman would have been assassinated in the framework of a settling of accounts for economic reasons.
Declares the woman arrested for the case of the dismembered businessman
During the investigation, audio of a strong cross between Gustavo Iglesiasan alleged member of Boca Juniors who was demanding the return of a close debt that he had contracted with his son, Nazarene Churches, and the murdered man. In the conversation, which would have been recorded by the victim herself, both exchange insults and threats.
“Fat put*, the conch* of your mother. I’m going to cross you“, Iglesias replied to the businessman, who then also implies that he or someone else would have already tried to rebuke Pérez Algaba and remarked:”you saved yourself for five minutesfor five minutes you got away huh”.
The victim did not stop at the intimidation and, on the contrary, challenged him: “No problem. Cross me, kill me. Kill me when you come looking for me huh. Don’t leave me alive, kill me”.
After the content of these messages was disseminated in the media -since the victim’s cell phone was not found for the moment-, the prosecutor Marcelo Domínguez ordered to incorporate them into the case to analyze them as evidencewhile father and son Iglesias spontaneously appeared to testify, accompanied by their lawyers.
Court spokesmen said that both acknowledged that Pérez Algaba owed them money and even Iglesias Sr. admitted to being the one who sent some of the audio files included in the file.
“I break his head”: a new audio of the dismembered businessman was released in which he threatens a debtor
Added to this, an audio was known where businessman I asked a friend for help “squeeze” to a person who owed him money for the sale of a car, which fuels the hypothesis that the motive for the crime would have been a reckoning. As heard in the WhatsApp audio, the 41-year-old man communicates with a person he calls “Lucho” in the Buenos Aires town of Avellaneda, in order to allegedly go and threaten the owner of a dealership that he owed him 45,000 pesos.
“I break that son of a bitch’s head (sic). So they don’t put me in cana dresses? Because I have to travel, then the next day I have to travel. Do you have it there? to make me the second. It is on Avenida Miter. Now I’ll give you the height ”, mentions the businessman in part of the message.
A few days before being assassinated, the businessman had published an enigmatic message on his social networks. “For you who like to play cop thief (broken ass), I kept bragging that the one above sees them all”wrote on July 15.
That publication was followed by two others, that same day. In one of them he is seen with a cap and the phrase “United States, end there, take care of your ass alone”; and in the other a photo of him looking at the camera, and accompanied by an audio in which he said: “It is incredible how there are such bad people in the world that while you are thinking of helping them, they are thinking of destroying you.”
Fernando Pérez Algaba would have asked a friend for a weapon “because of the threats and the fear he had”
According to the testimony of a friend of hers, Algaba I had lost a lot of money in the cryptocurrency business and gambling in casinos, for which he lived under threat and needed protection. For this reason, between February and March of this year, the businessman borrowed a 9-millimeter pistol.
“The relationship with the people to whom he owed money was changeable. There were times when they treated each other well and others when they yelled at each other and insulted each other.. Thinking back, between February and March, when Fernando returned from abroad, he went to visit me and since I am a legitimate user of a firearm and I have a Bersa 9mm pistol at home, he asked me to borrow it. He told me that he was afraid and that he wanted to have a gun“, he pointed.
The evidence of the last place where Pérez Algaba was seen alive
The businessman was last seen alive on a property in General Rodríguez on July 18 around 6:00 p.m., four days before he was found in the suitcase. As is known, he met with two ex-partners and ex-friends at the site where he also his cell phone records his last movement at that time.
At least eleven samples of stains that appear to be blood and papillary prints they are analyzed by experts in order to determine if they are hematic and, in this case, if they are human and belong to the victim. The traces were raised on the property belonging to the “Renacer” venture, a parcel of land where there are three containers that function as offices and two masonry buildings, one of them used as a shed to store things, while the rest is in poor condition. of abandonment.
In the first container inspected, located at the entrance to the property, the members of the Scientific Police raised three papillary traces at the entrance door and They hijacked a car trunk rug with reddish brown spots and hairy filaments.
Meanwhile, another container was lifted two samples of presumptive blood tissueone in the bathroom door frame and the other in the toilet, added the sources, who added that the experts took the third container five papillary traces which will now be incorporated into a fingerprint comparison system to try to identify who they belong to.
All these samples are now analyzed together with some stains found on white Range Rover van that Pérez Algaba used to mobilize in the last days that he was seen alive and that belongs to his ex-partner Maximiliano Pipelich, who handed it over days following the crime to the police from the Lomas de Zamora Departmental Investigation Delegation (DDI).
hypotheses
The businessman’s family lawyer, Sebastián Queijeiros, reported that “so far there are 36 hypotheses” regarding the motive for the crime and that “they change hour by hour with the results and what is being done.”
In relation to the date and time of death, the lawyer explained that there are other expert reports that will confirm these data and that will also make it possible to verify how they dismembered it “There is a kind of hypothesis that it was like a squeeze that got out of hand and ended this disaster,” he said.
In addition, Queijeiros pointed out that one of the expert reports that is expected to result might indicate that Fernando “lost his life in a place, then they scrapped him, they put him in a backpack, a suitcase, they moved him and dumped him in the river where there are no security cameras“.
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Regarding the audio that came out regarding threats that Pérez Algaba received, in which he is heard starring in a crossroads with Iglesias, the lawyer indicated: “The Prosecutor’s Office was able to obtain that audio not by any witness but by the media. Someone anonymously leaked it.“. “Just because there’s a fight, a business threat, or I don’t know how it came regarding, doesn’t mean that I killed him. It’s something that has to be tested,” he closed.
The researchers also follow a clue regarding some debts that Fernando had, who in recent months appeared linked to the cryptocurrency business. On his part, his brother Rodolfo, a partner in one of his companies, assured that they followed him when he went to look for a sum of money. “They killed him for money”he understood by lowering the tone of the versions that point to a mafia crime or a settling of scores for the alleged financial debts he had.
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