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Thousands of policemen search in bolivian Sebastián Enrique Marset Cabrera, a Uruguayan drug trafficker who was on the verge of being captured on Saturday, when the authorities raided his luxurious mansion in the department of Santa Cruz.
In addition, according to Insight Crime, he was also searched at seven other properties related to marset. But the drug dealer, his wife and three of his children escaped in a white Land Cruiser after apparently being alerted to the imminence of the attack. raid.
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The Minister of Government of Bolivia, Edward del Castilloconfirmed on Sunday that since Saturday “a series of raids have been carried out in the department of Santa Cruz”.
The minister remarked that Sebastian Marset He is “a high-value drug trafficker for our entire region and the entire world.”
According to the AFP agency, Del Castillo stated that “this subject is being sought by the Interpolthe DEAby the countries of the region, such as Uruguay, Brazil and also Paraguay”.
“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”continued.
of the castle reported that during the flight from marsetA 32-year-old Bolivian police officer “was kidnapped,” apparently by his security guard, but “was later released,” AFP reported.
“These subjects (marset and his wife) would be hiding inside the department of Santa Cruzalong with three minors who would be their children”, indicated the minister.
He added that in the raids seized 17 riflesa pistol, 1,915 ammunition, 28 chargers for various types of weapons, four bulletproof vests, a motorcycle, 31 vehicles (several high-end), four ATVs, a sports recreational vehicle Terix. In addition, marijuana and documents were found.
In Bolivia marset uses a Bolivian passport with the name of Gabriel de Souza Beumer.
This is what is known about Sebastian Marset
The AFP agency explained that the background of marset in it drug trafficking They go back more than 10 years. He has been a fugitive since at the end of 2021 he left the United Arab Emirates with a Uruguayan passport, where he was detained for carrying false Paraguayan documentation.
Minister Del Castillo said that marset income to bolivian for the first time in 2018 and who obtained different documents and residence under the Uruguayan and Bolivian nationalities in 2019.
He added that this year he obtained documentation that was processed under a Brazilian name that did not have international alerts.
Once established in Santa CruzMarset became the owner of the soccer club Los Leones El Torno, where, in addition, he was listed as one of the players, according to the Bolivia.com portal.
Infobae indicated that marset used documentation from the Brazilian Football Confederation and played in bolivian with the name Luis Amorim.
Among his background in football, his time, in 2021, through the Deportivo Capiatáa club founded in 2008 and that came to be in the first professional division in Paraguayan.
marset He had signed with the promise that one of his companies, Total Cards, would become a sponsor of the club after a financial contribution, something that did not happen.
According to the Uruguayan newspaper El Observador, Sebastian Marset he paid $10,000 to his teammate Julio Irrazábal so that he would give him the number 10 jersey of the Deportivo Capiatá.
At that time the club was in the second division and the drug dealer came to play six games. He stopped going to training without any notice.
The Observer also detailed that he lived permanently in Asunción, Paraguay, since 2020, together with his partner, also Uruguayan. Gianina Garcia.
The Paraguayan newspaper Última Hora reported that during the monitoring carried out by the authorities they came to verify that Sebastian Marset came to training capiatá in a Toyota Land Cruiser brand armored truck, year 2021, which was in the name of the company Tapyracuáione of the firms investigated in the operation At any cost Pya mega-investigation that came to establish that the Uruguayan was the leader of a transcontinental scheme of drug trafficking and money laundering with ties to family members insfrana Paraguayan clan with strong ties to politics and the Catholic Church.
This operation was carried out by the prosecutor Marcelo Peciwho was assassinated in Colombia in May 2022, during his honeymoon.
According to Última Hora, marset He held meetings in Asunción with the Uruguayan Federico Santoro Vasallo, who would have been part of the criminal structure as the designer of the money laundering scheme.
“Federico Santoro Vasallo is pointed out by the Paraguayan authorities as the man who received and guided in Paraguayan to the members of the crew of the Venezuelan-Iranian plane that sought from the country a load of cigarettes from Tabacalera del Este (Tabesa), owned by Horace Cartes (former president of Paraguay). The aircraft was confiscated in Argentina, at the request of the United States, for alleged links to terrorism.indicated Última Hora.
In addition to being a footballer, Paraguayan Marset was a businessman, event producer, and even a musician. All this, apparently, to hide the true origin of his goods.
According to Insight Crime, in 2012 marset was accused of coordinating the shipment of a shipment of dope who would travel by plane from Paraguayan to Uruguay in a private jet, piloted by the uncle of the former Paraguayan president Horace Cartes. He was never charged with that accusation, but a year later he was arrested for coordinating a similar shipment and sentenced to prison.
Between 2013 and 2018, he was held in the Libertad prison, in Uruguay, where he established relations with members of the First Command of the Capital (PCC), a powerful mafia of Brazil. That link led him to create his own organization, the First Uruguayan Cartel (PCU)according to a report in the newspaper El Observador.
In 2021 he was captured in dubai after entering United Arab Emirates with a false Paraguayan passport. But he allegedly contacted Uruguayan government officials in Montevideo and received a new passport from his country, for which he was immediately released.
Infobae said that the delivery of the passport generated a political crisis in Uruguay, where the Prosecutor’s Office summoned the ministers of Foreign Relations, Francisco Bustillo, and of the Interior, Luis Alberto Heber. In addition, the vice chancellor resigned from her position after some chats were known in which they showed that the government hierarchs knew that marset He was a “dangerous drug dealer.”
In the year 2022, the Colombian president Gustavo Petro accused him of being one of the instigators of the murder of the prosecutor Marcelo Peci. So far no charges have been filed against him in this case.
marset is wanted by the Interpol for allegedly transporting at least 16 tons of cocaine between Paraguayan and Europe through Uruguay.
The Bolivian channel Unitel explained that the luxurious mansion where he lived marset in Santa Cruz It had a swimming pool, tropical plants and income from two streets. The two-story building has a camera and motion sensor monitoring system installed.
In the garden exotic animals found like ocelots and monkeys.
Source: Elcomercio
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