A total of 85 fugitives, including four alleged members of the Tren de Aragua, were arrested in an operation coordinated by Interpol between June and November in 17 countries in the Americas and Europe. They were subject to red notices from the international police agency.
The four alleged members of the criminal organization that emerged in Venezuela were arrested in Spain and Colombia. Among them was Lissette Ysabel Rojas Guevara, one of the most wanted people in Chile, Interpol said in a statement on Monday (29).
Rojas Guevara was captured in the Murcian town of Molina de Segura (southeast Spain) on November 7 as part of an operation in which, according to Spanish police, 52 members of the Tren de Aragua were arrested.
Chile was looking for her for her alleged involvement in a cryptocurrency fraud estimated by Chilean authorities to cost more than 138 million dollars. The scheme would be used to launder proceeds from drug trafficking and extortion in Chile, Colombia, Venezuela and the Iberian Peninsula.
The Interpol operation, as part of the EL PACCTO 2.0 initiative to establish a permanent international network of fugitive investigators funded by the European Union (EU), also resulted in nine arrests in Chile – with four wanted by the country itself and five by other nations.
In Portugal, a Brazilian allegedly linked to the criminal group Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) was captured, which led to the dismantling of a cocaine trafficking corridor from São Paulo to Europe.
In Ecuador, Lithuanian fugitive LG, wanted by his country for drug trafficking, was captured thanks to cooperation between the Latin American country’s police and Interpol’s fugitive investigation support unit.
The 17 participating countries (Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ecuador France, Italy, Jamaica, Panama, Peru, Portugal and Spain) organized meetings in June and November in El Salvador and Ecuador to identify the most dangerous fugitives wanted for violent crimes or with links to transnational organized crime.
Among those arrested, 19 were wanted for murder, 29 for drug trafficking, 28 for crimes against minors and 7 for rape. They were also accused of human trafficking, money laundering or crimes related to criminal organizations.
