Two prosecutors from Paraguay have arrived in Bolivia to coordinate and exchange information with the Attorney General’s Office of that country on organized crime operating in both countries and, specifically, on the Uruguayan drug lord Sebastián Marset, who is wanted in several countries on the continent.
According to Bolivian authorities, Marset set up a “transnational criminal organisation” in Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia to export cocaine to Europe in alliance with Brazilian cartels. However, he is not charged with drug trafficking in Bolivia, but rather with money laundering.
Last week, Spanish police arrested Gianina García, Marset’s wife, at Madrid airport. She is accused in Paraguay, along with her husband, of drug trafficking and money laundering.
The Uruguayan is also accused in Paraguay of being the mastermind behind the murder of Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci, who was killed in Colombia in May 2022 during his honeymoon.
“We hope to share information. It will be a coordination meeting with the Paraguayan prosecutors who are conducting the investigation (into Marset),” said Juan Lanchipa, Bolivia’s attorney general, shortly before the meeting.
Among the Paraguayan anti-drug agents is prosecutor Deny Pak, who is investigating Marset in that country.
Marset, 33, a former soccer player, embarrassed Bolivian authorities a year ago after fleeing his mansion in the eastern Bolivian city of Santa Cruz, where he lived under a false identity for months with his wife and children. Police carried out raids and offered a $100,000 reward, but were unable to capture the Uruguayan drug lord who led a comfortable life in the city where he played soccer.
With a 742-kilometer border with Bolivia, Paraguay is one of the routes for Bolivian and Peruvian cocaine to Brazil and Argentina, according to authorities.
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