The history of the exhibition that was «valijero» narco and hid in a remote town of Entre Ríos

Rosario.-In Strobela small town of Entre Ríos, close to Diamond, Marcos Julián Díaz, former Rugbier and former member of the 41 -year -old Pumitas was hidden. I was a fugitive since 2021, accused of being one of the «valijeros» who changed dollars to the narco band led by the Peruvian plane expilot Julio Rodríguez Granthoncurrently imprisoned in the Federal Criminal of Ezeiza.

«To stay fugitive in Argentina you have to have a lot of money and good contacts”The phrase belongs to a veteran criminal lawyer who defended drug traffickers who spent several months fleeing the police. So this lawyer suspects, Marcos Díaz was finishing money to continue in hiding. He was hidden in a rural house, with swimming pool, in a town near Diamond, Entre Ríos. He was there with his girlfriend and had an close person who helped him. In StroBel, Díaz called Rafa Lewis.

As I had no car, I had to buy their food and ask them to be sent. That difficulty made it begin to be visible in a place where everyone knows each other. In the town he began to talk about how «strange» was that guy who lived in that house on the outskirts of Stobel, according to The nation A neighbor of the place.

An anonymous call told the Prosecutor of Procunar Matías Scilabrathat began an investigation and confirmed that the rumors that circulated in the area were true. There was hidden the former Rugbier that no one could catch.

The prosecutor set up a stealthy operation with the Federal Police. They did intelligence tasks and on Saturday they arrested him This 41 -year -old former who liked arms and dollars.

It was striking that Díaz could not catch him. Several rugby world sources told The nation They saw him every so often in Rosario. He came to visit sporadically and with low profile. This man who played in Plaza Jewell, a traditional rosary rugby club, acquired in Buenos Aires the dollars needed by the band of Peruvian Rodríguez Granthon.

He hid in Entre Ríos, because- according to the research sources- in that province he had close contacts with rugby people who, in turn, had links with characters from the former governor’s administration Gustavo Bordet.

According to the journalist José Amado, from Digital analysisDíaz had a historical relationship with leaders of Paraná Rowing Club, another traditional entity of the Entre Rican capital.

Díaz went to play rugby at the club in 2020, but when the pandemic began he disappeared from the Entre Rican capital. He suspected that they were going to ask for their capture soon. According to Amado, Díaz had narrow links with the brothers Claudio and Marcelo Tortuland with Daniel Carbonellprocessed by The bions of Securitas In Engersa, a heavy cause of corruption that is in charge of the federal judge of San Martín Sandra Arroyo Salgado.

Díaz was a fugitive in a cause that was emblematic in Rosario because the entire money washing circuit was established. In this case, the financier Gustavo Shanahanformer Port Rosario, sentenced to seven years in the same cause in which he is a fugitive Díaz, is imprisoned in a dungeon of the Airport Security Police (PSA) near the Falkland Islands airport.

Until the beginning of last December, Shanahan had been in house prison. In September, federal prosecutor Federico Reynares Solari requested that this condition be revoked and that he went to a prison. Federal judge Mario Gambacorta, which integrates Federal Oral Court No. 3, endorsed that request. According to sources of his environment, Shanahan was furious because he was in prison and the main responsible, Díaz, was still a fugitive.

The defense of the financier appealed to the Criminal Cassation Chamber, but was not successful. After this judicial setback, the man who handled millions of dollars in investments and financial maneuvers in Rosario- many of them ended up in a disaster with hundreds of victims- put together a bag with clothes and was transferred to a dungeon.

There is no history that a financier like Shanahan, sentenced for providing dollars to a narco band, is in prison. This 68 -year -old man was sentenced in December 2023 to seven years in prison. The unpublished thing about this research promoted by the Procunar was that Shanahan was considered part of the Narco Organization.

He was not charged only for money laundering, but that the dollars that allegedly changed to Rodríguez Granthon’s band were vital for the operation of the criminal group were considered. He «dollar Dark”, They told him, because he had a special quote, higher than that of the» Blue «, for obvious reasons.

In the presentation made by the team headed by the lawyer Iván Hernández Larguía, who exercises the technical defense of Shanahan, insisted before the Criminal Cassation Chamber, as they did in the allegations of the trial, with which there is no evidence that joins the financier with the band of the Peruvian pilot, who sold cocaine in Villa Banana. And pointed against the former Rugbier.

According to that hypothesis, it was Marcos Díaz who provided dollars to the criminal organization. Shanahan had contact with the rugbier because he acquired «green» that he brought from Buenos Aires to supply the financial cave that he had in Calle España and Rioja. «There is no communication between Shanahan and Los Narcos,» said Hernández Larguía in dialogue with The nation.

In the cassation ruling, one of the few statements made by Shanahan in this judicial process was reproduced, when he was investigated. “I want to say that, in the first place, of all the people who are appointed only to Marcos Díaz, that I have maintained some commercial relationship with him knowing that he was a collection representative in a company that I do not remember the name (I think he was dedicated to dairy products). I know him in the name of the financial world by the Carey group, he became independent He was approximately once a month or every fifteen days, sometimes he didn’t even talk to me directly, ”Shanahan said.

The look of prosecutor Reynares Solari was different. In the trial he said that this cause had a special dynamic because it led to investigating The «Money Route» and that the investigation was not limited to the «less favored» neighborhoods, far from the «boulevards» of Rosario.

He affirmed that there was a “neighborhood distribution instance in Espinosa Street”, in Villa Banana, which was an “illicit processing center of narcotic material”, and that the cell phone of Alfonso Sebastián Scirtino could determine the people and places of “distribution”, and how much money generated in the “points of sale”.

He said that the «novelty» of this cause was that «the money was followed», which had never been done before.

The defense of the Rosario financier who handled the port of Rosario stated that in this case there was a «strong media pressure» to demonize Shanahan.

«He was subjected to a public prisoner and a media lynching through the publication of more than 100 journalistic notes in different media,» they said, and added that «in some passages of the trial, the Prosecutor’s Office referred to the debate as’ the Shanahan trial.»

In the brief they argued that “the pressure that the Prosecutor’s Office was imposed by declaing mediately prior to the debate prevented him from acting objectively when during the trial they warned that the personnel he investigated made serious interpretive errors, despite the fact that their duty of objectivity imposed them to admit these errors and request, as in the case of Nestor Ciotti, the acquittal of Shana for the crimes.

Shanahan carried all the responsibility in Marcos Díaz, who unlike him, who spent the holidays in a dungeon, had been a fugitive for almost four years. Even, relative to the financier warned that «walks quietly for Rosario.» That happened until Saturday when the Federal Police stopped.

«The test showed that Marcos Díaz was the one who had links with the drug traffickers, and not Shanahan,» said Hernández Larguía, who stated that «The questions that really had to answer were if Díaz needed Shanahan to save the money he received from the narcos of Villa Banana and if the rugbier needed the former port of the port of Rosario to turn that money into currencies”

The response in both cases is no, according to the defense, which will now appeal to the Supreme Court of the Nation, after the judicial setback facing Shanahan in December that led him to leave his apartment in the center of Rosario to spend the parties in a cell at the headquarters of the PSA.