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during an operation carried out by the authorities of that country, as reported by Patricia Bullrich, Minister of National Security.
Through X (formerly Twitter), the Argentine leader indicated that Raúl Maylli Rivera was head of an organization that sold drugs in the Padre Mugica neighborhood and who was extradited from Peru in November 2023.
Operation “The Living Dead”:
DANGEROUS PERUVIAN NARCOCRIMINAL BEHIND BARSRaúl Martín “Dumbo” Maylli Rivera was the head of an organization that sold drugs in the Padre Mugica neighborhood. He had an international arrest warrant and even faked his death from Covid, but in 2022… pic.twitter.com/YJEqYbtzz0
– Patrícia Bullrich (@PatoBullrich) January 21, 2024
Until, Patricia Bullrich recalled that the Peruvian drug trafficker faked his death as a result of COVID-19but was arrested in 2022 in Peru.
The newspaper La Nación indicated that ‘Dumbo’ was admitted last Friday to the Federal Penitentiary Complex I of Ezeiza during a joint operation between the Argentine Federal Police and the Federal Penitentiary Service.
Maylli Rivera was head of an organization dedicated to the sale of drugs in the Padre Mugica neighborhood of Villa Lugano and He had an international arrest warrant for various causes of drug trafficking in Argentinacountry from which he had fled.
The arrest of ‘Dumbo’, considered the most wanted drug trafficker in Argentina and for whom the national government offered a reward of five million pesos, it took place in the early hours of October 28, 2022 in Parque San Silvestre, in Lima.
‘Dumbo’, to try to avoid justice and take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic, tried to fake his death. She even ordered a tombstone with her pseudonym to be placed in the Flores cemetery. A private lawyer appeared before judge Julián Ercolini and handed over Maylli Rivera’s death certificate, but investigators discovered that it was a false document.
One year and one month after his arrest in Peru, In November 2023, Maylli Rivera was extradited to Argentina.
Last November, ‘Dumbo’ decided not to testify before federal judge Julián Ercolini, and the Federal Penitentiary Service (SPF) dedicated itself to the task of finding a prison that was maximum security and had adequate conditions to admit him, since he must remain there, in preventive detention, until the end of the oral trial. Ezeiza was the chosen location.
The SPF had to analyze the options it had, since both in the Marcos Paz and Ezeiza prisons There are other drug traffickers – some already convicted and others in pre-trial detention – with whom ‘Dumbo’ comes into conflict because they belong to antagonistic gangs. and could cause problems for the prison population and even put their own physical integrity at risk.
Source: Elcomercio
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