Loan case: the statement of a key witness in the investigation was postponed

TO 83 days since the disappearance of Loan Danilo Peña in Corrientesthe Justice continues to investigate the case with the aim of finding the whereabouts of the minor. In this context, today Antonio Benitezhusband of Laudelina Peñahad to testify again before the Court but finally the testimony was postponed.

The minor’s uncle is considered one of the key pieces in the investigation since he was one of the last people to see Loan alive. Finally, his statement was rescheduled for Friday, September 6.

Antonio Benitez’s statement

A few days ago, Antonio Benitez He had requested, through his defense, to testify again before the Judge Cristina Pozzer Penzoin charge of the case. However, the procedure was postponed by the “Testimony of the expert who performed the odor test“.

In this way, Benítez’s lawyer, Ricardo Osuna, confirmed that the statement will take place on Next Friday, September 6th. Although the Judge urged to have the detainee face to face, the Federal Penitentiary Service He informed the judge that the minor’s uncle could not be transferred due to lack of funds. In this way, the declaration will be made in virtual way.

Benítez is one of the seven people arrested in the framework of the investigation into the disappearance of the minor. In his first statement before the court, the man said that he went to the orange grove and then arrived Daniel “Fierrito” Ramirez and Monica Millapi with the children, including Loan.

Regarding the whereabouts of the minor, Benitez said: “I don’t know what happened, where he is, or who took him. The way we searched for him, I think they took him.“.

On the other hand, his wife, Laudelina Peña – the boy’s aunt – had established the hypothesis of the accident by claiming that Loan was run over and buried by the former municipal official Maria Victoria Caillava and her husband, the former Navy captain, Carlos Perez.

Loan’s grandmother pointed the finger at Antonio Benítez

Justice is still without an answer regarding what happened with Loan Peña almost 3 months after his disappearance. In this context, the grandmother of the minorCatalina, gave statements to a local media accused directly to the uncle-in-law of the victim as the responsible for the child’s absence.

“The son-in-law. Yes, he was my daughter’s male.“Catalina told a local media outlet. The video was shared on social media and has once again sparked a stir in a case with no clear hypothesis.

In the recording, Catalina added: “I am poor, I raised all my children in poverty and nothing serious ever happened.. Let them say it. I had to go out to work when they were children and they stayed to take care of them.”

The woman was convinced that Benitez knows where the child was taken and demanded: “Give it back, make him return where he took it from.. To whoever gave it to him, tell them that his family is crying for him.”