Fernando Burlando revealed why he left the Loan case

The media lawyer, Fernando Burlando, He was removed from the case opened by the disappearance of Loan PeñaThe lawyer will be replaced by Roberto Mendezwho represented José Peña and María Noguera from the beginning and now also will defend the minor’s mother and brother.

Burlando explained the reason for his departure from the case and gave his opinion on the future of the investigation: “I tried from my position to do the impossible to find Loan. The family contacted me, José and also Mariano, I will continue looking for Loan.”

Fernando Burlando’s explanation for his withdrawal from the Loan case

In a telephone conversation with the A24 channel, the now former lawyer of the family began by explaining his role as legal representative: “I am a professional, one day I play for Boca and the next for Estudiantes.” However, Burlando clarified that this “is a special case” and said that he will continue “looking for Loan.”

Regarding the decision of the victim’s family to remove him from the case, Burlando showed his anger and pointed against the political power involved in the investigation: “Two days ago we had a hearing where the province’s involvement was investigatedin a complaint that pointed out against the province and the governor and then this happens.”

“I have been very critical of Corrientes’ political power”the lawyer reflected on his role in the case. “Now the media is gone and I understand that the family is vulnerable. I was never going to hand Loan over, there are things that are not understood, I am looking for Loan, what about the others?” he said.

Burlando also said that he wanted to continue working on the case: “I didn’t leave the case, I wanted to do my job. If it were up to me, I’d put them all in.”

Finally, the lawyer indicated that he had discovered “something that can be done” and that he hopes that, after his removal, “justice will also look at it.”I condemn the meeting at the government house in Corrientes. There are things that are not right, but it is clearly annoying, I hope Loan appears,” the lawyer concluded.

Loan case: two detainees asked for a key witness to testify again

Amid the commotion over Burlando’s removal, the investigation into the minor’s disappearance continues more than two and a half months after his absence. In the last few hours, the lawyers for Monica Millapi and Daniel “Fierrito” Ramirez They requested that the court take his statement again Camila Nunez, cousin of the five-year-old boy.

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The minor’s cousin has already testified twice in the case.

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Núñez is the wife of Diego “Huevo” Peña, nephew of the missing minor’s parents. The woman has already been summoned to testify twice as a witness in the case. According to the investigation, she was the one who He took the photo that confirmed that the boys were with Antonio Benítez that afternoon – Laudelina’s partner – and they arrived at the orange grove.

Loan’s cousin-in-law is considered a key player in the case because she was also the first to contradict Loan’s aunt’s hypothesis of the accident: “It is impossible that that happened, Loan was not at the place where my aunt says he was hit,” he stated on that occasion.

Previously, in July, Núñez reported that they had tried to bribe her and then she was threatened: ““They offered me a new life in Brazil. They wanted me to incriminate anyone who was detained.”.

The legal representatives of the two detainees, the lawyers Marcelo Hanson and Jorge Monttithey asked the court to summon Núñez to testify again. Their clients, Millapi and Ramírez, were the ones who, with Benítez, accompanied the children in the orange grove and that is why the Justice set its sights on them and they were the first three people arrested in the case.