2023-08-01 02:15:00
At this time, Bolivia is carrying out a large police operation to try to stop the Uruguayan Sebastian Enrique Marset Cabrera32 years old, an alleged drug lord wanted by the Justice in several countries for years.
Over the weekend, the Bolivian Minister of Government, Edward del Castilloindicated that since Saturday “a series of raids have been carried out in the department of Santa Cruz”, east of the country and on the border with Brazil and Paraguay, in search of Marset.
In this sense, he defined Marset as “a drug trafficker of high value for our entire region and the entire world” who has “multiple nationalities”. “This subject is being sought by Interpol, the DEA, by the countries of the region, such as Uruguay, Brazil and also Paraguay,” he said.
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“We have mobilized more than 2,250 police officers, more than 144 motorized, we have carried out more than 23 operations, six raids and the arrest of 12 people,” the official listed.
During the escape from Marset, a Bolivian policeman “was kidnapped”, apparently by his security guard, but “was later released”.
Sebastián Marset Cabrera, is still in the department of Santa Cruz with his wife, Gianine Garcia Troche, and their three children, the official said. “These subjects (Marset and his wife) would be hiding in the Santa Cruz department, along with three minors who would be their children”Del Castillo said.
The police operations continued this Sunday in Santa Cruz, the most thriving city in Bolivia, where 1.9 million people reside. Dozens of policemen moved through the city in vans and police patrols, in the context of raids and raids.
In an exclusive neighborhood in the northern part of that city, the heavily armed uniformed men and the prosecutor’s office entered a luxurious house on Alemania street in search of clues that would help find the Uruguayan.
At the end of the day, Minister del Castillo gave more information regarding the raids and indicated that they found 17 rifles, a pistol, 1,915 ammunition, bulletproof vests, 31 cars, a motorcycle and other vehicles.
Who is Sebastián Enrique Marset Cabrera, the drug trafficker wanted in Bolivia
According to the first investigations, Marset Cabrera would have entered Bolivia last September and would have carried out a social activity, even appearing as the owner of a soccer club in the second division of that region.
With a ten-year record linked to drug trafficking, Marset is a fugitive and He has been wanted by Interpol since he left at the end of 2021 with a Uruguayan passport from the United Arab Emirateswhere he was arrested for carrying false Paraguayan documentation.
Marset Cabrera began to attract the attention of the Uruguayan justice system in December 2012, when an investigation began once morest her for helping those responsible for a crime. Ten months later, he was prosecuted for drug possession, which was his first foray into the world of drug trafficking.
One of the milestones that marked his criminal career was his relationship with Juan Domingo Viveros Cartes, uncle of the former Paraguayan president, Horacio Cartes. Together they coordinated the arrival in Uruguay of 450 kilograms of marijuana in a small plane piloted by Viveros Cartes. Operations “Wayra” and “Halcón” led to the convictions of both the Paraguayan and Marset, who admitted being the recipient of the seized cargo.
He was detained in the Libertad Prison, where, according to investigators, he expanded his network of contacts and linked up with other drug traffickers. Upon leaving him in 2018, he used false identities in Paraguay and Bolivia to expand his criminal empire.
The profile of the Uruguayan criminal also includes links to the sports field: He is a professional soccer player and invested in teams like Deportivo Capiatá and Rubio Ñu, mechanisms through which he laundered money.
In February 2022, the operation “A Ultranza Py”, considered the largest operation once morest organized crime and money laundering ordered by the Paraguayan government, managed to dismantle the Marset gang.
In May of that same year, prosecutor Marcelo Pecci, who had been part of the execution of the “A Ultranza Py” operation, was assassinated during his honeymoon in Colombia. His name is associated with the death of this prosecutor and he is considered one of the masterminds of the crime.
Two Colombian brothers who planned the assassination of the Paraguayan prosecutor and paid the hitman who shot him on a Colombian beach in 2022 were sentenced last May in Colombia to 25 years and six months in prison. The Colombian court sentenced Andrés and Ramón Pérez Hoyos for their participation in the planning, financing and logistics of the crime.
According to the Colombian prosecutor’s office, they paid some $340,000 to the gunman who opened fire on Pecci on the island of Barú, near the Caribbean city, on May 10 of last year.
Pecci, 45, was enjoying his honeymoon with his wife, Paraguayan journalist Claudia Aguilera, who was pregnant.
Last year, Colombian media and President Gustavo Petro himself had pointed to the Paraguayan Miguel Insfrán, alias ‘Uncle Rico’, and the Uruguayan Marset, as the alleged masterminds of the murder.
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