POLICE

Preventive detention is issued for six of the seven accused of the crime of Pérez Algaba

The measure fell on the defendants Maximiliano Ezequiel Pilepich, Nahuel Sebastián Vargas, Matías Ezequiel Gil, Luis Alberto Contreras, Horacio Mariano Córdoba and Fernando Gastón Martín Carrizo.

  • 18/09/2023 • 19:51

Six of the seven accused of the crime of Fernando Pérez Algaba, the businessman found dismembered inside a suitcase in a stream in the Buenos Aires town of Ingeniero Budge, will continue to be detained in preventive detention, while one of the accused will be released from prison, they reported this Sunday judicial sources.

 

The measure was issued by the judge of Guarantees 4 of Lomas de Zamora, Sebastián Monelos, and fell on the defendants Maximiliano Ezequiel Pilepich, Nahuel Sebastián Vargas, Matías Ezequiel Gil, Luis Alberto Contreras, Horacio Mariano Córdoba and Fernando Gastón Martín Carrizo, all of them accused of the crime of "homicide quadruply aggravated by the use of a firearm, by premeditated collaboration of two or more people, by treachery, for pleasure and greed."

 

In the ruling, 58 pages long and to which Télam agreed, the magistrate considered that, at this point in the litigation, "there is no doubt regarding the prevailing relationship between all of the subjects involved in the infamous homicide."

 

In turn, Monelos maintained that "there was a previous criminal enterprise" between Pilepich, Vargas, Gil, Contreras, Córdoba and Carrizolos, where "each one was part of another link in the hatched plan that Pérez Algaba had as its purpose to finalize to stop with their monetary demands, debts and intimidations".

 

In this regard, the judge attributed a predominant role to Vargas and Pilepich in their actions within the group, although he highlighted that the conduct of the six was "intentionally directed, to actively cooperate in getting rid of the body and the traces of the homicide, providing technology for this." , advice, expertise, support, logistics, manpower, mobility and even the territorial framework".

 

Among the evidence assessed, Monelos mainly considered security camera records, the impact on the antennas of the telephone calls of those involved and text message communications between the suspects and the victim.

 

In addition, the magistrate recalled the background of Maximiliano Pilepich and Luis Alberto Contreras, both co-indicted with the same case for the "crime of robbery and theft of a motor vehicle" in 2004.

 

"The relationship of previous knowledge between them is not a minor detail taking into account the presence of Pilepich on July 19 at dawn in the Ingeniero Budge area, specifically where the antenna corresponding to the home of Luis Alberto Contreras, of 4450 Euskadi Street in that area; especially when the victim has been found lifeless in 'Arroyo del Rey', a few blocks from the aforementioned home,"

he indicated.

Based on the information collected, Monelos ordered that the six should continue in prison, under the suspicion that "they will try to evade the action of justice or hinder the investigation", added to the "possible amount of sentence in expectation."

 

"The procedural dangers arise from the provisional assessment of the facts that are the subject of the investigation: specifically the 'modus operandi' carried out, such as the disappearance and concealment of evidence that has been occurring in the investigation. To this, it must be added the size of the criminal enterprise being investigated, and the magnitude of the events under investigation," he added.

 

On the other hand, the judge ordered the release of Flavia Bomrad, accused of having participated in the crime after a ring similar to those used by the victim was found in her vehicle, since no traces of Pérez Algaba's DNA were detected in the vehicle.

 

"It cannot be ignored that Bomrad explained in his defense that it could correspond to his nieces, while no other evidentiary procedure has been sent to reliably determine that it is Pérez Algaba's gadget and turn it into a serious indication of guilt against him. "Monelos justified in the ruling.

 

In this way, the Guarantees judge partially accepted the request of the head of the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 5 of Lomas de Zamora, Marcelo Domínguez, who had requested to prosecute the seven accused with preventive detention.

 

In his presentation, Domínguez had considered that "having acted premeditatedly among themselves and with a prior division of tasks and through the use of firearms, they caused two injuries to the back of Fernando Pérez Algaba's torso, which subsequently caused his death." death".

 

Prosecutor Domínguez established in his investigation that Pilepich summoned Pérez Algaba to meet at the "Renacer" property in General Rodríguez on July 18 in the afternoon, and the victim went there with Vargas in a white Range Rover Evoque truck.

 

For the Public Ministry, the crime of businessman Pérez Algaba was committed for a debt of 50,000 dollars and 17 pieces of land that the accused Pilepich had to deliver to the victim who, in order to collect it, went to the property on the afternoon of July 18. "Reborn" of General Rodríguez to meet him.

The disappearance of "Lechuga" was reported on July 19 by the owner of an apartment that the victim had rented temporarily in the Ituzaingó district, who, having not heard from him, went to a police station to file a request for whereabouts investigation.

 

While his dismembered remains were found between July 22 and 24 in a stream in Ingeniero Budge, Lomas de Zamora district.