Overview
- The revived line of inquiry, reported by LN+, identifies 'El Enano' as the purported ideologue of the 2006 Acassuso robbery, and he has never been detained or tried.
- On January 13, 2006, a small crew took 23 hostages at the Banco Río branch, breached more than 140 safety deposit boxes, and stole millions in cash plus roughly 80 kilos of jewelry.
- The gang escaped through a boquete into a roughly 15‑meter tunnel that led to storm drains, using inflatable boats and a waiting vehicle modified with a floor opening.
- Police negotiator Miguel Sileo engaged for hours with Luis Mario Vitette Sellanes, later recounting that the robbers used toy gun replicas and that all hostages were recovered unharmed.
- The crew was identified after Alicia di Tullio, spouse of member Rubén 'Beto' de la Torre, alerted police about a month later; convictions followed in 2010, sentences were reduced, and the principal defendants are free today.