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The defense of "Naco Goldfinger" requested a visual inspection of the Río de la Plata

Ignacio Alfredo Pardo Paso, former saxophonist of Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, is on trial for the discovery of about 33 kilos of cocaine when he was rescued along with a friend floating after the shipwreck of his boat in 2021. He requested that the campsite from which the ship left be analyzed and also the area where the drug was found.

  • 29/08/2023 • 02:13

The defense of the former saxophonist of Los Fabulosos Cadillacs Ignacio Alfredo Pardo Paso, better known as "Naco Goldfinger", who began to be tried in La Plata for the discovery of about 33 kilos of cocaine in the Río de la Plata when he was rescued along with a A friend floating after the shipwreck of his boat in 2021, asked that the court in charge of the trial and the prosecutor participate in a visual inspection of the campsite from which the boat left and also of the area where the drug was found.

 

The request made by the lawyer Juan Manuel Casolati was accompanied by his colleague Carlos Broitman, defender of the other defendant, Leonardo Gastón Minin Etcheverría (41), and had the approval of the federal prosecutor Rodolfo Molina, so all that remains is for the Oral Court in the Federal 2 of La Plata set a date for the inspection of the Punta Lara campsite, in the Ensenada district.

 

It is also planned that they all embark together towards the waters of the Río de la Plata in which the drug was found and the sunken ship was found with the bags containing 34 loaves of cocaine that had a photo of Félix Gallardo on the front, a Mexican narco better known in his country as "El Jefe de Jefes" or "El Czar de la Droga".

 

"Naco Goldfinger", who had already served a sentence for a robbery at a restaurant in 2015, and his friend Minin Etcheverría began to be tried by the TOF 2 of La Plata, accused of the crime of "transportation of narcotics" and both arrived in quality of detainees to the oral debate.


 

The shipwreck and discovery of the drug

The case for which they are being tried occurred at dawn on October 15, 2021, when the former saxophonist of Los Fabulosos Cadillacs and Minin Etcheverría suffered a shipwreck and remained swimming in the middle of a raging river for six hours, until they were finally rescued near at 6 in the morning by the sailors of a merchant ship who spotted them floating.

 

Upon being rescued, the castaways reported that the "Tracker" type boat in which they were found had suffered from inclement weather, since a strong wind was blowing that night and had sunk, and that another acquaintance of theirs named Carlos Ariel Cammarota ( 46) was missing.

 

Prefecture personnel, who were alerted by the sailors who carried out the rescue, found hours later the boat and the body of Cammarota, who drowned, as well as a shipment of cocaine inside bags.