Overview

• Six coordinated searches on Tuesday across Buenos Aires and General Rodríguez seized 49.67 kilos of cocaine, including 26.65 kilos in an underground fosa and 23.02 kilos in a rented apartment.
• Five suspects were detained — four Peruvian nationals and one Argentine — and judges issued national and international arrest orders for two more alleged providers of the aircraft.
• Investigators tied the logistics chain to a Cessna that made an emergency landing in Ibicuy in January with 359 kilos of cocaine, after which the Brazilian pilot and his Bolivian companion were arrested.
• Seized evidence included two vehicles, cash in pesos and dollars, precision scales, phones, data devices, a full flight simulator and the aircraft’s identification plate.
• The case is led by Federal Judge Hernán Viri with prosecutor Pedro Rebollo and PROCUNAR alongside Gendarmería, and it advances with the processing of Steven Alessandro Villanueva Tomás and the detention of his brother in Madrid pending extradition.