Overview
- Federal judge Mariela Giménez formalized charges and set a six‑month window for the investigation and the preventive detention, authorizing technical expert analyses.
- Two Bolivian pilots, Juan Pablo Quinteros Peredo and Henry Álvaro Mercado Cuajera, and three Argentine suspects, Julián Darío Mansilla, Jonathan Alejandro Gómez and Jorge Alberto Cuellar, were imputed.
- Authorities recovered 136 kilos of cocaine from the crashed aircraft and later unearthed 228 kilos buried about 70 kilometers away based on information from early detainees.
- The five face aggravated charges of contrabando de importación de estupefacientes tied to the number of participants and the irregular use of an aircraft, with an alternative aggravated transport charge for the three Argentines.
- Investigators describe the operation as transnational and detained the injured pilots at a bus terminal after they tried to pay in dollars, while probes continue into an estimated 100 kilos still unaccounted for.