Tren de Aragua member from Chile arrested in Murcia | Spain

In the Murcian city of Molina de Segura (pop. 77,500), the National Police arrested an alleged member of a dangerous gang of Venezuelan origin, the Tren de Aragua, for which the Chilean judicial system claimed responsibility, according to the Ministry of the Interior. The fugitive, 38 years old and of Venezuelan origin, was arrested last November 7, just two days after another police agent arrested 13 alleged members of this violent organization that supposedly tried to create criminal structures in Barcelona and Madrid to begin settling in Europe. In total, in the past year and a half, 16 members of this squad notorious for atrocities committed by rival groups operating in at least eight South American countries have been arrested in Spain.

The investigation into the arrest of the fugitive, carried out jointly by the General Commissariat for Information (CGI) and the Fugitive Resettlement Section of the National Police, began last July after receiving a request for cooperation from the Chilean authorities before the woman was suspected of being hidden in Spain after she managed to evade a police operation carried out last June in this country in which 52 members of a group called Hermanos Cartier, a Tren faction, participated. De Aragua, who was working in the Los Lagos area of ​​Chile, was arrested.

According to the investigation, the detainee was integrated into the structure of the organization charged with laundering money obtained by the group through kidnapping, extortion, and extortion operations in Chile through a network of open companies and the use of bank accounts and cards that allowed them to withdraw money from that country after converting it into cryptocurrencies. Using this system, the criminal group transferred $138 million (over 119 million euros). In this South American country, the Tren de Aragua is credited with particular atrocities, such as the killing of two people in the city of Arica of those who were buried alive.

Finally, National Police research allowed the woman to be located in Molina de Segura, where she was arrested when she left the house in which she was hiding. This is not the first time that a fugitive from the Aragua train has been arrested in Spain. Last June, Luis José RR, also known as Luis José RR, was arrested in Madrid MaamiraThe 30-year-old is considered the head of one of the factions of this criminal group operating in Peru, known as Los Gallegos. He was accused of participating in the murder of a member of a rival organization opposed to the control of prostitution in Lima.

The Tren de Aragua, created 20 years ago, is considered the most powerful criminal organization in Venezuela and is responsible for all types of crimes, from dealing with people for the purpose of sexual exploitation to drug trafficking, including arms trafficking, extortion, kidnapping or murder-for-murder. It has been hacked in several South American countries, and in Chile it is considered a threat to national security. Last July, the US State Department offered a reward of five million dollars (4.3 million euros) to anyone who provides information that would allow the arrest of its leader, Hector Rutherford Guerrero Flores. Nino GuerreroHe remains anonymous since he was imprisoned in 2023. Washington authorities consider this group a transnational organization “designated for terrorism.”