Global Courant 2023-05-08 00:15:16
Valeria Nasca went to buy a truck, but it was a trap: when she arrived they shot her. She had been sentenced for her ties to drug trafficker Esteban Lindor Alvarado.
A 45-year-old woman, who had been convicted of being part of the gang of the dangerous drug lord Esteban Lindor Alvarado, was ambushed and murdered this afternoon in Rosario, in a murder with the hallmarks of organized crime.
The victim is Valeria Cecilia Nasca (45). She and her husband, Jorge Benegas, were convicted for being part of the organization led by drug lord Alvarado, a historical rival of Los Monos for managing the drug business in the city.
According to the first versions, Nasca was ambushed and shot to death. The victim was with her husband, in a place where they had agreed to go to buy a truck. However, the alleged vendors opened fire on the woman and escaped from her.
Valeria Nasca. she was executed in Rosario. Photo: Juan Jose Garcia
Some eleven used 9-millimeter caliber pods were found at the scene. Sies doctors confirmed the woman’s death, according to the Rosario newspaper La Capital.
The couple had been sentenced in October 2021 for being part of the economic leg of the Alvarado gang, convicted of being the leader of the illegal organization and murderer of the lender Lucio Maldonado.
Nasca was sentenced to 3 years in prison for conditional execution and a fine of 51,600,000 pesos, Benegas was sentenced to 5 years in effective prison and a fine equivalent to twice the amount of laundering for the crime of illicit association as organizer in real contest.
According to justice, Nasca also participated in a maneuver to hide properties that Alvarado had bought in the town of Funes.
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Esteban Lindor Alvarado was sentenced in June of last year to life imprisonment for leading an illegal association dedicated to carrying out attacks, money laundering and committing homicides. He was the one who also tried a few weeks ago to escape from jail on top of a helicopter, a plan that he was frustrated.
Esteban Lindor Avarado, November 2019- (Photo: JUAN JOSE GARCIA)
At the time of sentencing him, the Court made up of Patricia Bilotta, María Isabel Mas Varela and Alejandro Negroni ruled unanimously. In addition, he also imposed a fine of 316,173,048 pesos that he must pay after the sentence is finalized, in addition to the confiscation of multiple assets.
Four other members of the organization –Matías Ávila, Germán Fernández and Facundo Almada, as co-perpetrators of a homicide, and Mauricio Laferrara, for two crimes– received life imprisonment, like Alvarado. Miguel Grecci Hazzi and Damiana Ghirardi were accused of money laundering and must serve sentences of four years, eight months and three years, respectively, in addition to paying fines for a total of $122,500,000.
The murder of the moneylender Lucio Maldonado (37), who was kidnapped and later shot to death in November 2018, exposed the movements of Alvarado, now convicted of being the instigator of that ferocious attack.
The Court, among its decisions, rejected on Friday the proposal of Alvarado’s defense, which sought to invalidate that testimony that Argüelles made before the court.
The man defined the leader of the illicit association as “the biggest serial killer in the Argentine Republic”, said that he ordered the murder of forty people and that he had the details of their identities in a notebook.
As a detachment from the case, the prosecutors now confirmed that investigations will be launched to try to clarify these crimes.
“In 2012 he boasted of having killed more than a hundred people in this drug war, in this dictatorship to which we are subjected,” added Argüelles, a mechanic who worked to give the cars used by the gang a legal appearance.
Among other of Alvarado’s victims, Argüelles mentioned Luis Medina, an important player in the drug business in Rosario who was gunned down in December 2013 along with his girlfriend, the model Justina Pérez Castelli. The double homicide that he investigated while the current lieutenant governor of Santa Fe, Alejandra Rodenas, was still a judge, remains unpunished.
