The Bolivian police arrested this Friday a Bolivian identified as the second most important man in the organization of the Uruguayan Sebastián Marset Cabrera, wanted for drug trafficking, and a Peruvian who carried out security work.
The Minister of Government (Interior), Eduardo del Castillo, reported the arrest of Erlan García López and said that he is the “second in command of this criminal organization.” “We are talking about a big shot in drug trafficking, who is being sought in other countries as well,” he added.
He also announced the arrest of Josimar Vicente Cartagena Rodríguez, a Peruvian national, “Part of the armed protection group of this criminal organization.”
Bolivia deployed a major police operation a week ago to try to capture Sebastián Marset Cabrera, 32, considered by the Ministry of Government (Interior) as “a high-value drug trafficker” for the region and the world.
Del Castillo assured at a press conference that the Bolivian García, 31, was “the facilitator of legitimizing Marset’s illicit profits” and “also a front man, administrator of assets and resources, held the second position in the criminal organization.”
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From the Peruvian Cartagena -he narrowed down- it was established that he was part of the group that protected the escape from Marset, last Saturday, when the local police mobilized for his capture. Some 20 people remain in detention.
The Bolivian authority assured that “We are going to continue cornering this person (Marset) until we find his whereabouts and present him before the Bolivian justice system.” He added that he is still in Bolivia.
Marset and his group are investigated by the prosecution for various crimes, as legitimization of illicit profits, drug trafficking and criminal organization and carries penalties of up to 10 years.
the uruguayan he had intense economic activity in the city of Santa Cruz (east), managed a soccer team and was protected by a paramilitary security group, According to La Paz
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The police have reported that searches are being carried out throughout the country to find the whereabouts of Marset, his wife and their three children.
The name of Marset was associated with the death of Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci and in Colombia in 2022, although the Colombian attorney general, Francisco Barbosa, indicated that there is “no material evidence.”
In Paraguay, he is charged with the crime of drug trafficking and is also on the Interpol red list.
He has been a fugitive since the end of 2021, when he left the United Arab Emirates, where he was detained for using a false Paraguayan passport.
