The Venezuelan police arrested Gabriel Carlos Luis Salinas on Wednesday in Caracas for the death of Paraguayan anti-corruption prosecutor Marcelo Pecci, who was murdered last May in Colombia while on his honeymoon and for which four other people have already been convicted.
According to investigations, Salinas would have been in charge of driving the jet ski from which the shots were fired that killed the prosecutor Pecci, as detailed by the Colombian newspaper ‘El Tiempo’.
Salinas has been intercepted by Venezuelan agents in a routine control in an exclusive area of the municipality of Chacao and after verifying that he was wanted by Colombia through an Interpol notification, he has been arrested. Along with him, another person has been arrested and charged with homicide.
Salinas was on the radar of Venezuelan authorities after learning that he had been groped by a criminal network operating in at least Panama and Colombia to carry out contract killings.
Four other people were arrested and sentenced in June to 23 years in prison for their involvement in the crime committed on May 10 in Baru, in the Colombian Caribbean, while he was on his honeymoon with his wife, Claudia Aguilera.
There is a sixth suspect, Francisco Luis Correa Galeano, who is considered the alleged mastermind, and who is awaiting trial after rejecting the abbreviated procedure. The hearing is scheduled for February, reports Paraguayan newspaper ‘Última Hora’.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
