Extortion, the purchase of houses and luxury cars, and even the offering of sexual services: this is how the empire of one of the "capos" who operated from La Picota worked.
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Fabián Varicachá, known by the alias 'Pluma', operated an illicit criminal empire from pavilion 6 of the La Picota prison in Bogotá, Colombia. According to available reports, his network engaged in extortion, the acquisition of luxury houses and vehicles, and the offering of sexual services.
In a separate judicial development, the Civil and Commercial Chamber of Bahía Blanca in Argentina partially confirmed a ruling ordering Eduardo Fermín Eliçabe and former police commissioner Leónidas Hugo Soria to indemnify the family of Irina Laura Montoya, nearly 30 years after the double murder of the backpackers.
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Infobae (Buenos Aires, Argentina) (AR)Focuses on prison-run extortion network and luxury assets of alias Pluma.
Infobae (Buenos Aires, Argentina) (AR)Focuses on a decades-old backpacker murder case and civil indemnity ruling.
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