Overview
- The court refused Nicolás Gabriel Soria’s extraordinary request after earlier rejecting his bid for release about a month ago.
- Prosecutors and the Peña family’s lawyers opposed the petition, arguing security risks and unfair preferential treatment compared with other inmates.
- Soria, 43, faces charges including unlawful deprivation of liberty, fraud against public administration, concealment, free supply of narcotics, resisting authority, and usurpation of titles.
- Investigators allege he led a team, alongside lawyers Elizabet Cutaia and Alan Cañete, that posed as the Lucio Dupuy foundation and as foreign agents to contact witnesses and frustrate the Loan Peña investigation.
- The parallel obstruction case notes claims that Soria detained minors in a 9 de Julio hotel without authorization and tried to promote a narcotrafficking theory, while the disappearance probe continues with several people in custody.