Lima, Aug 8 The National Police of Peru dismantled this Monday a gang allegedly dedicated to the theft of luxury cars in Lima, whose leader has photos with President Pedro Castillo and boasted of having met with him in a house where, allegedly, the president received unreported visits. officially.
The head of the High Complexity Crimes Investigation Division (Diviac), Colonel Franco Moreno, informed the press that seven members of the gang called “Los Gama” were arrested in various districts of Lima and that they carried out a raid on the offices of the Automotive Association of Peru.
As detailed, these alleged criminals irregularly processed around 500 car plates.
“These plates came as a result of robberies and assaults on citizens of (the Lima districts of) San Isidro, Miraflores and different parts of the country. This organization has been operating very secretly. Its members were few, but powerful,” Moreno said. to the local media.
The criminal organization processed duplicates of existing license plates to place them on the cars it stole and be able to sell them through social networks.
The alleged ringleader of the gang, Fritz Antonino Moreno, was arrested in an elegant apartment in the Surco district, after being involved by the Police in other crimes, including contract killings, and being identified by the agents in a meeting with the Peruvian president in the house on Sarratea street, in the district of Breña.
Moreno published the photo with Castillo in that house, after their meeting last March, amid journalistic complaints against the head of state that he was receiving businessmen and politicians in Sarratea’s house without officially reporting it on his daily agenda.
Between those meetings, Castillo allegedly received Karelim López and Zamir Villaverde, two of the prosecutor’s collaborators in the corruption complaints filed against him.
The head of the Diviac indicated that Moreno was evasive and that “he wanted to evade his responsibility”, but he trusted that the Police will verify “that this person is part of the organization” with the evidence he has gathered. EFE
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