A lady suspected within the homicide of a Paraguayan anti-mafia prosecutor was expelled from El Salvador on Saturday and handed over to Colombian authorities, the Colombian prosecutor's workplace mentioned.
Margareth L Chacon Zuniga is accused of being concerned within the "planning, financing and logistics of the homicide of prosecutor Marcelo Pecci" and on Sunday was scheduled to look earlier than a supervisory decide, the investigative physique mentioned on Twitter.
Her seize brings to seven the variety of individuals detained over Pecci's homicide in Might final yr.
The prosecutor was killed in entrance of his pregnant spouse, Paraguayan journalist Claudia Aguilera, whereas they have been on their honeymoon on the Colombian island of Baru, close to the vacationer port of Cartagena on the Caribbean coast.
Simply two hours earlier than the assault, Aguilera had posted an image on her Instagram account saying that they have been anticipating a child, the BBC reported. Aguilera has recounted that two males arrived on the seaside on a jet ski or small boat. One approached Pecci, and "with out a phrase," shot him twice.
El Salvador's Justice Minister Gustavo Villatoro earlier introduced Chacon's expulsion on Twitter, accompanied by images exhibiting the 42-year-old Colombian girl being escorted by Interpol brokers as she boarded a airplane.
"We reiterate: El Salvador won't be a refuge for worldwide criminals," Villatoro wrote.
Chacon was arrested on Wednesday along with Salvadoran Wilber Huezo, 47, who's accused of getting hidden her within the Central American nation.
Salvadoran authorities raided two homes the place the suspect was hiding and seized Colombian passports, cellphones, laptops, and about 15,000 euros ($16,000), in addition to some dollars and Colombian and Mexican pesos.
Colombian, Paraguayan and U.S. authorities are looking for the masterminds of the assassination, who they are saying are linked to drug trafficking networks.
Pecci investigated crime gangs primarily based in Brazil and cash launderers in an space the place the borders of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina converge.
In November, the U.S. State Division provided a reward of $5 million for data "resulting in the arrests and/or convictions of the as but unknown people who conspired or tried to take part" within the assassination.
4 of the individuals arrested up to now, together with the hitman, pleaded responsible and have been sentenced to 23 years in jail in June.
Final month, Venezuela's inside minister shared a video with journalists during which Gabriel Carlos Luis Salinas Mendoza, a Venezuelan citizen arrested in Caracas, seems to admit to his half within the killing of Marcelo Pecci.
"We rented a jet ski, we went to Baru seaside (in Colombia) and we executed" the crime, Salinas, one in every of two alleged hitmen, is seen telling interrogators.
Afterwards, "I acquired $8,000 and got here to Venezuela" throughout the border.
Salinas is accused of getting pushed the jet ski.
