The Ministry of National Security increased the reward to five million pesos for those who provide information that makes it possible to locate Fernanda Isabella Aguirre, missing since July 2004 in the city of Paraná, Entre Ríos province. The update was ordered by resolution 1396/2025, published this Friday in the Official Journal.
According to the regulations, the new amount replaces the amount of two million pesos established in 2023 and responds to the price fluctuations registered since then. The reward is intended for people who, without having intervened in the event, provide data that is considered useful in furthering the search for the young woman.
Anyone with information can contact the National Coordination Program for Judicial Searches, which is under the Ministry of National Security. The resolution was signed by Minister Alejandra Monteoliva and has been in force since its publication.
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The lawsuit is filed with the Transitional Court No. 2 of Paraná under the jurisdiction of Guarantee Judge No. 8 Pablo Zoff, under the title “Fernanda Isabella Aguirre s/Location Incident”.
Fernanda was 13 years old when she disappeared on July 25, 2004 in the town of San Benito, Paraná department. That day he went to the flower stand his mother ran in front of the Parque de la Paz cemetery, about 11 kilometers from the capital Entre Ríos. Hours later, the family received an extortion call demanding a ransom of 2,000 pesos, but the teenager never returned.
As part of the investigation, Miguel Ángel Lencina, a rapist and murderer who was on temporary trips and was suspected of so-called extortion, was arrested. However, 72 hours later he appeared hanged in his cell without revealing what had happened to Fernanda. His wife, Mirta Chávez, was sentenced to 17 years in prison for telephone extortion, saying that Lencina killed the young woman and that she kept her sneakers, even though the teenager’s body was never found.
Over the course of more than two decades, numerous hypotheses were analyzed, but Justice was never able to obtain precise information about Fernanda’s whereabouts. His mother, María Inés Cabrol, led the search for years, traveling the country following every lead until her death, six years after her disappearance from cancer.
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