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He’s not as properly often known as Ariel “Guille” Cantero (35), the chief of “Los Monos”. His identify doesn’t sound as very like that of Esteban Lindor Alvarado (44), catapulted to fame final March after making an attempt to flee by helicopter from Ezeiza Penitentiary Complicated 1.
Nevertheless, everybody agrees that he’s the one who strikes Rosario’s massive drug, the one that’s nonetheless absolutely operational.
The character in query is known as Julio Andrés Rodríguez Granthon (29), he has a previous as a civilian pilot and is nicknamed “El Peruano” as a result of he was born in Bella Vista, in northern Peru, on July 23, 1993. They are saying that he arrived in Rosario about 10 years in the past, after making a stopover in Patagonia. However all the pieces that occurred earlier than his first drug conviction, in 2017, is sort of diffuse.
Intimate enemies: Rosario drug lords Ariel “Guille” Cantero and Esteban Lindor Alvarado.
The reality is that Granthon was climbing positions: first he established himself as a cocaine vendor for the Canteros and middleman of the marijuana smuggled from Itatí. At the moment, though he’s imprisoned in Pavilion C of Module VI at Ezeiza, many outline him as the brand new “primary”.
He’s credited with the 567 kilos of marijuana kidnapped on Might 29 in a mechanic store in Funes -Gran Rosario- by the Santa Fe Police. Ricardo Piris, son-in-law of former Itatí mayor Natividad “Roger” fell in that operation. will. Piris was sentenced to 11 years in jail, however was launched in October 2022.
Granthon has been in jail for years, however he nonetheless runs all the pieces behind bars. It was exactly his cell -along with 21 different objectives- that the federal choose No. 3 of Rosario, Carlos Vera Barros, raided between Wednesday and Thursday of this week with the intention of arresting his right-hand man, Facundo Ariel Pérez (28 years, alias “Giraffe”), and dismantle its drug distribution and cash laundering construction.
The operation, carried out by the Particular Investigations Division (DIE) of the Federal Police, was a hit: “Giraffe” was arrested at his dwelling in La Reja, Moreno district, Buenos Aires province. His spouse fell with him. Pérez has a spicy file: three escapes and drug causes and open shootings in 2018, 2021 and 2022.
Facundo Ariel Perez (aka “Giraffe”), right-hand man of Peruvian drug lord Julio Andres Rodriguez Granthon.
A couple of hours later Granthon’s cell was raided. That is the place his bunker works. His orders are given on to his center managers because of the cell telephones that heavier prisoners, like him, acquire all too simply even within the supposedly most managed pavilions. This isn’t a concept, it’s confirmed in dozens of recordsdata.
What’s extra, following the data extracted from certainly one of these gadgets -which was kidnapped from his cell in August 2022- it was now that the construction of his gang was established, the continuity of the sale of medication and in addition the community of cash laundering, primarily via an actual property company in Rosario.
From the pavilion -they preserve within the federal Justice-, Granthon continues to handle the distribution of cocaine and marijuana. He additionally personally takes care of his investments: buy of vehicles, not less than three {hardware} shops, residences and even loads in a non-public neighborhood in Rosario, the place a home is being constructed.
One element: to do actual property enterprise, Granthon makes use of the false identify of Matías Cabaña. On the social community Fb he seems with this identify. There he seems together with his photograph and, as a laughing reality, he put “Ezeiza” as his handle, though in fact he didn’t make clear that he was speaking a few jail advanced.
Peruvian drug trafficker Julio Andrés Rodríguez Granthon (29) is being held within the Ezeiza jail.
Granthon, essentially the most complete
Like “Guille” Cantero Cantero or Esteban Lindor Alvarado, Julio Rodríguez Granthon is imprisoned (he was housed in a most safety cell), however apparently his constructions weren’t affected as a lot as these of his colleagues.
Though he already has two sentences to his credit score -one from 2017 to 10 years in jail and one other from 2019 to 12 years-, his enterprise didn’t lose prosperity and that’s the reason he continues so as to add instances in opposition to him.
The raids this week had been requested by Rosario’s No. 2 prosecutor, Adriana Saccone, and her colleague from the No. 1 federal prosecutor’s workplace, Javier Arzubi Calvo. Each investigated the “Peruvian” with the collaboration of the pinnacle of the Prosecutor’s Workplace for Financial Crime and Cash Laundering (Procelac), Diego Velasco, and the pinnacle of the Prosecutor’s Workplace for Narcocriminality (Procunar), Diego Iglesias.
The investigation started in October 2022 below the speculation that Granthon dealt with all the pieces from jail with a mobile phone, which he modified each 15 days. The particular knowledge held that he introduced massive quantities of cocaine from Salta in a truck he owned and the drug was cooled in a warehouse on the outskirts of Rosario after which moved to the south of the town.
A big a part of the subordinates of “El Peruano” are on the run and are the identical ones that the Procunar investigated in one other file began in 2021.
On this construction, an important is Facundo Pérez, alias “Giraffe”, whom Granthon had scheduled as “Jiménez” on the mobile phone that was seized from his cell in Ezeiza in August 2022.
The federal jail of Ezeiza. Photograph MARCELO CARROLL.
“Go forward, the truck with the 200 chickens will depart you, we’ll unload that,” “El Peruano” tells “Giraffe” and in one other WhatsApp message he offers directions on how a part of that cocaine ought to be distributed: “50 Toro, 40 Rodrigo, 30 Reina, 15 Marta, 15 Mario, 10 Fede, 10 Negra, 10 Pimp”.
On the opposite facet, “Giraffe” sends him a photograph of a brick with a crown brand, from which he scraped off a small piece to check the standard.
“How are they?” Granthon asks.
-They’re cool, trolo, not less than these three. We’ll see the 200, reply “Giraffe”.
Earlier than, Granthon had chatted with one other contact scheduled as “Sorete” (unidentified) with whom he had coordinated the dispatch of a Toyota Hilux van to load the medicine.
To purchase the cocaine, “El Peruano” negotiated the greenback value with a contact, all the time utilizing the mobile phone he had in his cell.
“Give me a value, do not kill me,” he wrote and instantly purchased him $123,000. “Is not there extra?” she requested herself and obtained in response the photograph of a bunch of wads of {dollars}.
It is that straightforward, straight on-line from jail. One million-dollar enterprise that appears unstoppable.
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from his beginnings with Los Monos to managing hundreds of thousands from the Ezeiza jail
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