Overview
- Argentine federal agents detained Luis Fernando Fernández Albín, a close associate of fugitive Sebastián Marset, during a surveillance stop in Buenos Aires’ Flores neighborhood.
- The arrest followed an Interpol red notice and months of joint Argentine-Uruguayan surveillance that tracked him to an apartment near Avenida Rivadavia.
- He is accused in Uruguay of coordinating a two-tonne cocaine shipment intercepted near Punta Espinillo in August under Operation Nueva Era.
- Investigators also link him to the September 28 grenade attack targeting organized-crime prosecutor Mónica Ferrero in Montevideo.
- A federal court led by Judge María Romilda Servini took custody as anti-narcotics prosecutors process seized phones, cash and documents and coordinate extradition after parallel raids in Uruguay detained his partner and seized vehicles and additional phones.