Overview

• The filing to the Cámara de Casación was submitted by Fiscal General Cristian Schaefer and PROTEX co-chiefs Alejandra Mangano and Marcelo Colombo.
• The prosecutors call the September 29 ruling arbitrary and seek its invalidation or partial reversal to extend investigative time, or failing that, to send the case back to the Federal Chamber of Corrientes.
• Loan Danilo Peña disappeared on June 13, 2024 in 9 de Julio, Corrientes, and he remains missing more than a year later.
• The case has been elevated to an oral public trial with no scheduled date; defendants include Laudelina Peña, Antonio Benítez, Carlos Pérez, María Victoria Caillava, Mónica del Carmen Millapi, Daniel “Fierrito” Ramírez, and ex-commissioner Walter Maciel, accused as a necessary participant.
• Investigators have pursued multiple hypotheses as evidence remains fragmentary; the vast rural search found a shoe later deemed planted, and analyses of genetic traces, phones, and vehicles continue as the family presses for answers.