Luis Fernández Albin, one of the most feared drug traffickers in Uruguaywho was captured on November 20 while living incognito in the Flores district of Buenos Aires, has been extradited to his country, official sources confirmed Infobae.
The Department Interpol of the Argentine Federal Police handed him over to the Uruguayan Air Force in the early hours of this Wednesday. at San Fernando Airport, in a trial led by Judge María Romilda Servini.
He was therefore immediately transferred to Montevideo, where he will have to stand trial before the first instance criminal court specializing in organized crime of the 1st layer, which accuses him of being one of the minds behind the movement two tons of cocaine.
Fernández Albín, on the other hand, investigated in his country the attack that prosecutor Mónica Ferrero suffered in her home last September.
Fernández Albin – linked to the boss Sebastian Marset– was recorded by the Federal Operations Division of the United States Anti-Drug Trafficking Investigation Superintendency PFA -which depends on the DFI- in 100 Terrero Streetafter Interpol had issued a Red Notice against him hours earlier, with a File a lawsuit against him as the person responsible for PROCUNAR.
The Uruguayan drug trafficker fell as part of a two-pronged operation called New Era II, coordinated with Uruguayan prosecutor Angelita Romano; Three other suspects were arrested in their country, including the defendant’s wife.
The main focus of the proceedings was on the discovery of the two tons of drugs on a farm in the Punta Espinillo area. The lead that pointed to the presence of Fernández Albin in Buenos Aires It began with a report that the drug enforcement agency sent to the Argentine judiciary in October from the United States, who pointed out his trip to Buenos Aires, his possible connection to Marset and his alleged role in the attack on prosecutor Ferrero.
The report also included his hideout in Buenos Aires. Therefore, PROCUNAR and prosecutor Eduardo Taiano assigned the tasks to the PFA, which managed to track down the Uruguayan. It was found that arrived in Buenos Aires via Buquebús on June 27th and that shortly afterwards he activated a cell phone.
The attack on the public prosecutor who represented the prosecution in court was particularly severe: Two suspects broke through the roofs into the backyard of the officer’s houselocated in the Jacinto Vera district Montevideo. They performed there Shots and they lit one grenade. The prosecutor and her family were present in the house, but they remained unhurt.
“They didn’t kill me by six inches,” Ferrero said. The truck used by the thugs was found burnt shortly afterwards.
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