Who was Landy Párraga, the former beauty queen murdered in Ecuador and mentioned in the Metástase Case

Landy Párraga, former candidate for Miss Ecuador 2022, attended the wedding of some friends on Saturday night in the city of Quevedo, in Ecuador. She did this in the company of her boyfriend, a plastic surgeon. The next day, when there was a cevicheria, She was shot dead by two assassins who invaded the place. The execrable crime gains more relevance because the 23-year-old was named in the Metástase Case, a broad fiscal investigation into corruption and organized crime involving judges, police officers, politicians and drug traffickers.

The woman lived in the province of Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas. According to the Primícias EC portal, she had arrived at the weekend Quevedo, in the province of Los Ríos, as a guest at the wedding of her great friend, the former vice-mayor Jhoa Chong-Qui.

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O former beauty queen He posted photos and videos from the wedding on his account. Instagram. In addition to the dances and displays of love with the boyfriend, images of the celebration even show fireworks.

Landy Párraga was 23 years old. (Landy Párraga’s Instagram).

On Sunday morning, Landy Parraga and her boyfriend went to a popular cevichería that recently opened in La Quadra Shopping Center. She had shared her location on social media by posting a photo of the food, which she did about 20 minutes before the attack.

In a video from a security camera, you can see Landy and his partner standing when they see two guys entering; She notices and turns her face away, as if she is trying not to be seen. But one of the killers goes directly against the young woman and shoots her dead. Then, the two killers continue shooting when Landy was already on the ground. Her boyfriend was unharmed.

According to authorities, the young woman was shot once in the head and another five times in the body.

The National Directorate of Crimes against Life, Violent Deaths, Disappearances, Extortion and Kidnapping (Dinased) reported this Monday that the vehicles used by the killers involved in the murder of Landy Parraga were identified, according to Ecuavisa.

Police said the armed men arrived in a car and that other individuals were on two motorcycles.

Landy Párraga during her participation in Miss Ecuador 2022. (Photo: Landy Párraga’s Instagram).

Social communicator By profession, Landy Párraga was Viceroy of Quevedo in 2019.

The model was also queen of the Vênus del Río Quevedo parish, Miss Turismo de Quevedo 2019 and Miss Mesoamérica Ecuador 2022. In addition, she participated in the Miss Ecuador 2022 contest.

On Instagram he had more than 163 thousand followers. On this social network he shared his photos and videos of trips from various parts of the world, exercise routines and cooking recipes.

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She worked as a volunteer at the Quevedo Gerontological Center. Furthermore, she was part of the team that collected pallets for the construction of solidarity shelters in Manabí, after the 2016 earthquake, said Primicias EC.

In her Instagram bio, Landy described himself as CEO of Lanmi Importer Store it’s from Lanmi Fitfocusing on sportswear.

According to her, Lanmi Importer Store It started with the sale of sports shoes and months later expanded its offer with all types of products, including makeup, baby items, household appliances, office products, luggage, toys, watches, wheelchairs, among others.

“Little by little I managed to continue growing, first I started selling shoes, I had a lot of help of my boyfriend, my family,” he said in a social media post.

However, their commitments would not have a legal origin.

Ecuavisa reported that according to data from the Federal Revenue Service (SRI), Landy Párraga does not record tax payments in any year. But there was an active RUC for the wholesale sale of bazaar items in general.

Landy Párraga next to a vehicle that was in his name. (Facebook by Landy Párraga).

In January of this year it became known that Landy Parraga had been mentioned in conversations between drug trafficker Leandro Norero and his lawyer Heliver Angulo, alias ‘Dear‘, which were published as part of the Metastasis Case, where around 50 people are involved.

The beauty queen reportedly had a romantic relationship with ‘The boss’as it was known Norero.

According to Primícias EC, Angulo said Norero that in investigations Landy Parraga She appeared as the owner of an importing company and they wanted to link her to the Norero case for money laundering. He replied that that importer was not his.. Furthermore, the trafficker repeated several times that the model’s name could not appear in connection with him, since “the world is coming upon me”.

The boss’s concern was that the name of the Landy Parraga reached his wife’s ears.

According to the drug dealer, Parraga It was he who introduced him to César Litardo, former president of the National Assembly, and to some generals.

‘Honey’ he said to Norero that he would speak to the police so that they would respond to the Public Prosecutor’s Office who found nothing related Landy Parraga. They didn’t talk about it again.

Murdered drug dealer Leandro Norero. (Equavisa).

Leandro Norero He was arrested in May 2022 in Samborondón. They then arrested him in the Latacunga Prison, where he was murdered on October 3 of that year.

After the murder of Noreroremembers Ecuavisa, Parraga He posted several videos on his TikTok account mourning the loss of someone and expressed his pain with words “I will never learn to live without you.”

“This week I lost my other half,” he replied to one of his followers.

Primícias EC reported that the name of Landy Parraga appeared again in other Norero chats, this time with Mayra Salazarwho was public relations for the boss and the Court of Guayas, and is currently a protected witness by the Ecuadorian Public Ministry.

According to the Public Prosecutor’s thesis, Párraga received payments in Norero’s name.

One of the pieces of evidence has to do with Mayra Salazar’s statements. She worked to pay bribes to José Luis Segovia and Santiago Zumba, judges from Cotopaxi who were hearing a habeas corpus to free her sister from Norero.

On July 31, 2022, Salazar informed Norero that a favorable decision would not be possible. The drug dealer then instructed him to ask the judges to return the $6,000 they had already paid as part of the bribe.

Minutes later, Mayra Salazar asked Norero for an account number to make payments. 2,000 dollars were deposited in an account in the name of a person surnamed Núñez Carvajal and another 2,000 dollars went to the account of Landy Parragadetails Firstfruits EC.

Source: Elcomercio