“We, the Aragua Train, are not their enemy. I’m calling you in a good way because they are paying 10 million pesos for us to do the hitman.” That is part of the threat that a man in Concepción received through a phone call via WhatsApp and that he revealed exclusively to Radio Bío Bío. After the case, the Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that it is investigating the fact, since several complaints from affected people in the region are reported.
After an auditor from Radio Bío Bío revealed the threat suffered in a call via WhatsApp from a person who claimed to belong to the transnational gang “Tren de Aragua” in Concepciónthe regional prosecutor confirmed an investigation for similar complaints filed in recent weeks.
It was in a conversation with Radio Bío Bío that an auditor recounted the fear generated by a WhatsApp call where a A foreigner asked him for money in exchange to avoid a contract killer or any harm to members of his family.
Pablo, name that we will use to protect his privacy, indicated that on Monday, when he was in his car with his daughter, received a call by said application, where they spoke to him by name.
“They tell me that they are calling from the Tren de Aragua and they threaten me and my family, and I imagine that in exchange for money because I did not continue listening to them and I took advantage of making a recording, “he explained.
The affected person reported that after what happened he went to the Carabineros to file the respective complaint, where an official would have told him that in those cases all you had to do was hang up the phone and block the number.
According to him, the cash “He did not want to take a complaint from me as it should have been. I went to leave the defense in the book, so that they would write it down for me, the typical thing when one makes a complaint to the Carabineros, but none of that happened.”
This despite the fact that, as he asserted, the same official told him that two other people had filed complaints for the same. In those cases, the victims would have specified the deposit.
Action that he assured he replied to the Investigative Police, where he did not receive the answer he expected either, yes, they would have told him that “there are bands that are dedicated to doing this type of business through the telephone”, added Pablo, who acknowledged having felt “totally unprotected.”
“A manhunt is about to begin”
In the middle of what happened, Pablo recorded part of the conversation with the subject, where a foreign man is heard saying the following:
– “Why don’t you silence the call so I can pick up my boys that I have near your residence. I’m calling you in a good way, son, we, the Aragua Train, are not your enemy. I am calling you in a good way because they are paying 10 million pesos for us to carry out the hitman against them, against his wife”.
– “If I cut off the communication, I cancel the negotiation, right now a manhunt is going to start”.
Pablo said that after the contact he was “Mute, I didn’t manage to say anything.”
Another case, same way of operating
The modus operandi seems to be the same: A call by Whatsapp or a message by the application identifying the victim, takes the step to ask for money to avoid the murder order.
This is how it happened last Friday, a photographer from the area, received threats from an alleged member of the criminal gang “Tren de Aragua”. As she explained, when she realized that it was an extortion she went to the police and in the barracks she continued with the call.
Due to her profession, the woman has her name and contact number on her social networks, so she believes that they got that information from there.
Prosecutor acknowledges investigation
After being consulted by Radio Bío Bío about the case of the auditor, from the Prosecutor’s Office in the region confirmed a investigation that seeks to elucidate a series of threats that inhabitants of Bío Bío have received in recent days from criminals who claim to be from foreign criminal organizations.
As specified, there are several complaints, which are grouped in a single investigation, and called on citizens to report these events.