200.000
pesos paid by the gunmen to rent the jet ski in which they fled following killing the prosecutor.
Just a month before getting married, Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci carried out one of the most significant operations in the fight once morest drug trafficking in his country. With a group of special operations, Pecci entered the world of the Paraguayan mafia and snatched 250 million dollars from them.
In the official records of the operation called “A Ultranza Py”, it was recorded that in that great operation 12 raids were carried out in which 20 high-end cars, nine aircraft, 13 tractors, various buildings and boats were seized, all belonging to drug gangs who exported cocaine from Colombia to Europe, but who made their way through Paraguay.
With congratulations on his resume, with the pride of having dealt such a momentous blow to the mafia, and with the recognition of his superiors, Pecci married on April 30. As a place to spend his honeymoon, he and his wife, the journalist Claudia Aguilera, chose Isla Barú, in Cartagena, away from the news regarding drug traffickers and the stress caused by the operation that left 30 people captured, including Minister Joaquín Roa Burgos, from the National Emergency Secretariat, who turned out to be the owner of one of the seized yachts.
Colleagues and close associates of the prosecutor Pecci who spoke with EL COLOMBIANO, consider that the mafia, whose tentacles stretch across the planet, followed his trail from Paraguay, and this Tuesday, Pecci was assassinated at 10:45 a.m. while taking a break on the beach of the hotel where he had been staying since May 6.
“We have serious indications that they already knew the movements that the prosecutor was going to make. We think they were tracked down and might have hired hitmen in Cartagena, because the gangster network also had contacts there,” a Paraguayan prosecutor told this newspaper.
joint investigation
According to information collected by the Attorney General of Paraguay, Sandra Quiñónez, the men who took Pecci’s life were traveling on a jet ski and shot him three times.
“It was when he was on his way to the island of Barú, when he was leaving the hotel, and the three men approached on jet skis to kill him. They went straight to him, the lady is alive, “said the prosecutor.
After the assassination, the Colombian defense minister, Diego Molano, repudiated the fact and asserted that he ordered the director of the National Police, General Jorge Vargas, to be in charge of the situation. “Five high-ranking investigators were sent to the scene and we established contact with Paraguayan authorities and Dijin.” The interdisciplinary team was joined by Legal Medicine personnel and the CTI of the Prosecutor’s Office, who at the end of the followingnoon delivered a photograph of the alleged Pecci assassin.
Officers from Paraguay joined this investigative group and traveled to Colombia on Tuesday followingnoon to take charge of the case together with Colombian authorities.
His last operation
In the operation “A Ultranza Py”, led by Pescci, two of the heavyweights of drug trafficking fell. Miguel Angel Insfrán, alias “Tio Rico”, and his brother José Insfrán, accused of money laundering and drug trafficking.
With his arrest, a string of deaths was unleashed in Paraguay that caught Pecci’s attention: first, Fátima Rejala, who worked for alias “Tio Rico” as a cook, was murdered; Three days later, the Police reported a body in the Ypané population, cremated in a vehicle.
As a good investigator, Pecci followed the thread of these deaths and asserted that the crimes were ordered by the Insfrán Clan, “due to alleged disloyalty and collaboration with the Police.” But his hound’s nose led him to discover that José Isfrán was a pastor of a church and built an ostentatious temple in Curuguaty. There he was mobilized by helicopter.
Several parishioners indicated that Colombians frequently came to the church and iidentified themselves as shepherds. “They were mobilized in private planes,” they testified.
In his investigation, the assassinated prosecutor today discovered that deputy Juan Carlos Ozorio was part of the Paraguayan Revival Church. Pecci accused him of leading a group of drug traffickers who worked with coca from Colombia and Bolivia, and among the evidence he indicated that Ozorio traveled to Colombia in 2021 with Pastor Isfrán and met with Colombian religious whom he invited to Paraguay because he was brewing “something big”.
With the scrolls of a successful operation, Pecci traveled to Colombia. Among the first investigations, the investigators have that the jet ski in which the murderers fled was rented for 200 thousand pesos for half an hour and it was red. The authorities are trying to establish whether the gunmen traveled on the same plane as Pecci on May 5 and whether they were part of the mafia tentacles that Pecci managed to unravel a month earlier.