Former Miss Ecuador candidate Landi Parraga shot dead
Former beauty queen shot dead Landy Parraga, 23 years old. Ecuador has been hit by violence, with the deaths of two mayors in the context of a wave of criminal violence in the past 15 days.
Parraga’s only known connection to date is with organized crime. This has been mentioned in the telephone chats of the alleged drug smuggler and money launderer Leandro ‘El Patrón’ Noreiro, who was murdered in prison in late 2022, and whose phones have revealed a vast corruption conspiracy involving judges, police and politicians.
Paraga was the queen of beauty Rural town Venus del Rio QuevedoAs well as Miss Turismo de Quevedo 2019 and three years later, Miss Mesoamerica Ecuador.
Active on social networks, Parraga said on Instagram, where she has about 150,000 followers, that she was a social communicator and executive director (CEO) of a firm that imported household goods and toys, among other things.
On her social networks, the model shared photos about her trip and a large number of snapshots wearing different outfits. According to the digital portal Primicias, Parraga worked as a volunteer at the Quevedo Gerontological Center and was part of the staff that collected the pallets. Construction of solidarity shelters in Manabi province, Following the 2016 earthquake, which was one of the most powerful earthquakes in Ecuador’s history with more than 670 deaths.
Parga was mentioned in the ‘Metastasis’ case, a conspiracy of alleged judicial, police and prison corruption that arose from Noreiro’s death. Last Sunday, an influential person was also shot dead When he was in a restaurant in QuevedoThe capital of the tropical province of Los Rios, where he had gone for a social event.
In a video circulating on social networks you can see the moment when A man enters the restaurant and shoots Parraga repeatedly. The ‘Metastasis’ case came to light in late 2023 with a major operation that led to the arrest of 39 people, including the then-President of the Judiciary Council, Wilman Teran, who is currently in temporary prison.
In case, which is already More than fifty people were prosecuted, The seized cell phone revealed several conversations in which the name of Parraga, who has no criminal record, appeared on several occasions.
Armed conflict between criminal gangs
On July 13, 2022, Noreiro was talking to one of his confidants, Haliv Angulo, nicknamed ‘Dear’ in the plot. Norero was investigated Money laundering And Angulo had infiltrators in the police team that was behind the case.
‘Dear’ told Noreiro that the police had asked him about Landy Parraga and that the prisoner had told him “that the woman’s name should not be revealed for anything in the world.” According to ‘Dear’, was an importer of paraga And the police had to review it at the request of the prosecutor’s office. Noreiro replied that it was not from importer Landy Parraga.
It is clear from the dialogues that ‘El Patrón’, as he called Noreiro, insisted on avoiding being associated with her and preventing the name of the former Miss Ecuador candidate from reaching his wife’s ears.
According to police, Noreiro was in charge of the financing and sponsorship of other criminal gangs, including Los Lobos, Los Tiguerones and the Chon Killers, from the Latacunga prison in the Andean province of Cotopaxi, who wanted to displace the hegemony of Los Choneros, the oldest and most active in the country. Big group. Head of State Daniel Ngoboa announced last January “Internal armed conflict” against criminal gangs.Whom he called “terrorists”.
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