WASHINGTON.- The United States offered a reward of up to two million dollars in exchange for information that leads to the arrest or conviction of a drug trafficker Uruguayan Also accused of bleaching money, which they presume would be in Venezuela.
As announced by the State Department spokeswoman, Tammy Bruce, The US is willing to pay in exchange for tracks that lead to the arrest of Uruguayan Sebastián Marset, either in American territory or in any country.
“We believe today that Marset’s whereabouts is in Venezuela. It is not necessarily confirmed, but there are news that they are saying that Venezuela is the most likely place“F. Cartwright Weiland, senior official of the Office of International Affairs on Narcotics and Application of the Law, was questioned by being questioned by The observer from Uruguay, at a press conference.
The Department of Justice, meanwhile, presented an accusation letter against Marset in which he is accused of “money laundering from drugs through US financial institutions.”
PECCI prosecutor murder
According to Weiland, the Uruguayan drug trafficker would also be pointed out of being the intellectual author of the murder of Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci, which occurred in Colombia in May 2022.
“His richness is stained with blood and the suffering he has watered from Montevideo to Miami,” said the US official when referring to the reach and violence associated with the criminal network that Marset would have led.
“Marset hides shamefully behind his appearance as a film villain While competing in sports cars and a football team is bought, “he added.
Uruguayan drug trafficker object of reward
The Uruguayan, whom they also accuse of having participated in organized crime in Paraguay and Bolivia, was already subject to another reward offer in August 2023. In this case by the Bolivian authorities, who offered a reward of $ 100,000 in exchange for your detention.
This reward is part of an operation against Cocaine traffic in Paraguay, which emerges “a criminal network directed by Marset with about 16 tons of cocaine seized in Europe,” according to the statement of the State Department.
Eleven of those tons were intervened in the port of Antwerp (Belgium) in April 2021.
The investigation was carried out between the Special Research Unit and the Anti -Drug Secretariat of Paraguay, the Interior Ministry of Uruguay and the US Drug Control Administration Office (DEA) in Asunción.
