During 2024 there were 26 extortionate kidnappings throughout the country, 50% more than in 2023but far from the 294 in 2015. This was reported by the Specialized Fiscal Unit in Organized Crime (UFECO), who assured that the downward trend continues despite the increase.
From the Public Prosecutor’s Office, they highlighted that It was the second year with fewer extortion kidnappings since the peak of 2015, in which there were 294 cases. On average, there were 2.17 per month. The report was prepared based on the statistical data collected by the Specialized Unit headed by federal prosecutor Santiago Marquevich.
Among the aspects to highlight, the Prosecutor’s Office mentioned the decrease in cases in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) and growth in other provinces such as Córdoba. For example, in December there were two kidnappings for extortion. One in Villa María, Córdoba, and another in Morón, province of Buenos Aires.
The peak of kidnappings was in 2015, with 294. Since then it began to decrease. In 2019 there was a sharp decrease, with 44 cases, the following year 48, in the next three years it went from 30, 27 and the lowest in 2023 with 16 cases.
They arrested the main suspect for a crime that occurred in Pinamar 13 years ago
A man was arrested on Monday in Mar del Plata as the main accused of crime of the psychologist María Marta Landívarthe woman who was murdered in the spa town of Pinamar in 2012. The suspect, 37, He was part of a gang of scammers and was detained for the crimes of “homicide” and “possession of a weapon of war.”
Landívar, who was 38 years old, was murdered on May 19, 2012 in the duplex he rented in the private Golf Chico neighborhood, with a gunshot wound to the clavicle that damaged the aorta.
The accused, identified as Santiago Nicolás Mallolwas arrested in Mar del Plata by agents of the Homicide Division of the Federal Police, who intervened following the order of the Attorney General’s Office of the Judicial Department of Dolores.
The investigation confirmed that the accused resided in that city, while, at the time of the murder, he was part of a criminal gang dedicated to robbery in the absence of residents in the areas of Pinamar and Villa Gesell. For his part, it was determined that Mallol, nicknamed “Pipa”, used an account in the Mercado Pago and Mercado Libre applications, implemented in different commercials that he attended.
The prosecutor Diego Benzi He was the one who ordered his arrest, which ended up taking place after they obtained information that the man lived on the same block where one of the aforementioned businesses was located. Subsequently, they began to monitor him until they managed to intercept him.
There they stationed themselves and implemented discreet surveillance, through which they observed “Pipa” leave the house where he was staying. There they intercepted him and detained him.. The suspect was transferred this Tuesday to the Dolores courts to be investigated.
Source: Ambito
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