Gianina García Troche has been detained for 13 days in Madrid and has been charged with “criminal organization, drug trafficking and conspiracy.”
The Bolivian Prosecutor’s Office charged the partner of the Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastian Marset, Gianina Garcia Troche. The Bolivian Justice accuses her of three crimes, including drug trafficking, and plans for her preliminary hearing to be on August 7 in Santa Cruz.
García Troche was wanted by Interpol based on an arrest warrant Paraguay for drug trafficking and money laundering, and has been detained for 13 days, after the arrest was made at the airport Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajasin Spain. According to the lawyer of Marset, the founder’s partner First Uruguayan Cartel (PCU) He turned himself in of his own free will, to “clear himself” of unfounded accusations.
Now, the Prosecutor’s Office Bolivia —country in which he was hiding Marset and from which she escaped in the middle of a major operation—”filed the charges against her and other people for (the crimes of) criminal organization (criminal association), drug trafficking and conspiracy,” according to the prosecutor Julio Cesar Porras at a press conference.
The Bolivian magistrate said that the couple of Marset There are several open cases in the Andean country and all evidence will be presented at the preliminary hearing, even though this judicial act will be carried out in the absence of the accused.
García Troche is allegedly part of the criminal organization led by Sebastian Marset, and faces a maximum prison sentence of 22 years and six months in Paraguay, sources close to the investigation told EFE. Both have been on the run since July 29, 2023, when they escaped from the capture operation in Santa Cruz.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the woman had another identity in Bolivia, with the name of Larissa Marquez Madeleyne; for which she is being investigated for the crimes of use of a falsified instrument, drug trafficking, criminal association and conspiracy.
Paraguay has requested the extradition of Garcia Troche, and while that process is being finalized, he is currently being held in a penitentiary in Madrid.
Source: Ambito
