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Argentina Offers 5 Million-Peso Reward to Find Missing Teen Abril Romero

Prosecutors now treat the case as a potential aggravated illegal deprivation of liberty in a gender-violence context.

Overview

  • The Ministry of Security formalized the reward through Resolution 1316/2025 in the Official Gazette and activated the National Reward Program.
  • Federal forces were instructed to circulate the case poster nationwide, and the communications directorate will amplify the search across media.
  • People can report tips via the free 134 hotline with identity protection, and any payment will follow judicial confirmation of the information’s usefulness.
  • Abril Nilda Romero Miranda, 17, was last seen on September 18 in General Rodríguez after leaving a note saying she was going with her boyfriend, Cristian Esteban Velazco.
  • Investigators identify Velazco, 32, as the main suspect with multiple prior gender-violence complaints, track a September 25 call to Tartagal in Salta, and examine testimony suggesting past illegal crossings to Bolivia.