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Trial Resumes in Corrientes as Experts Reconstruct Search for Missing Boy Loan Peña

Technical testimony will reconstruct how security forces worked with forensic teams to help judges assign responsibility for the disappearance.

Overview

  • The federal oral trial in Corrientes restarted this week with eight peritos and police called to give technical evidence about search and forensic work.
  • Court lists include Marilú Vásquez, Tamara Muniagurria, Sergio Montenegro, Uriel Rossi, Fernando Lobo, Walter Emanuel Sosa, Ricardo Chevarlazk and Verónica Reyes as witnesses.
  • Four of the seven main defendants have already testified, including former municipal official María Victoria Caillava, the child’s aunt Laudelina Peña, Antonio Bernardino Benítez and ex‑comisario Walter Maciel.
  • Extensive searches led by the Army, Gendarmería and the Policía Federal failed to locate Loan, who remains missing since June 13, 2024.
  • A separate court file accuses ten other people of obstructing the probe with alleged crimes such as usurpation of titles and illegal deprivation of liberty and the schedule runs on Wednesdays and Thursdays through December 2026.