Federico Ezequiel Santoro Vassallo, 44, was apprehended and is believed to be the financial manager of the drug trafficker.
A Uruguayan was arrested in Paraguayan, accused of alleged links to the drug trafficker Sebastian Marset, who remains a fugitive and escaped last Saturday, July 29, from a police operation in bolivian, where he said through a video that the authorities of that country helped him.
Is about Federico Ezequiel Santoro Vassallo, 44-year-old, whom the police consider an important member of the organization and caught after a raid in Minga Guazú, nearly Brazil. Thus, he joins other trusted men of marset who have already been caught, within the framework of the criminal organization with which the uruguayan drug dealer would have trafficked cocaine for 500 million dollars from bolivian, used at least three different identities during four years in that country.
santoro vassallo was caught as part of the operation “At any distance Py”, developed since February of last year and considered the largest against organized crime and money laundering in the neighboring country, according to the authorities.
In a statement, the National Anti-drug Secretariat of Paraguay (senate) indicated that santoro between 2020 and 2022 he was part of the organization led by marset, who today is required by the authorities of Uruguay and Paraguayan, but also for those of bolivian and Brazil.
Police think they caught the financial manager
At times where the search for marset is extended, under the suspicion that he already left bolivian, the hypothesis is that the newly apprehended “fulfilled the main function of receiving, as payment, the money from international cocaine hydrochloride trafficking”. At the same time, they believe that he is responsible for “managing said earnings and managing the payments that belonged to the other members of the criminal group”.
In the letter, they indicated that he received “by indication of Sebastian Marset, suitcases or bags loaded with bundles of US dollar, euro and other currency bills” for drugs sent abroad.
Source: Ambito
