The Prosecutor’s Office began — ex officio — an investigation into the alleged kidnapping of a Chilean sailor that would have occurred in the Daule canton.
This Thursday, the entity indicated that the expertise is being carried out to clarify the facts.
Luis Toledo Cruces, who is first corporal and member of the crew of the Esmeralda Training Ship, arrived in Ecuador eleven months ago to marry a citizen of this country, after requesting a two-year permit without pay from the Navy. .
Chilean soldier was kidnapped in Ecuador and they demand $100,000 for his release, relatives reveal to that country’s media
According to the spouse, when she arrived at her home on Tuesday night, she realized that her husband was not there and, although she called his cell phone, it was turned off. After going out to look for him, she did not find him and called the police.
Around midnight, she received a WhatsApp message telling her that her husband “had a serious problem, and that he wanted to know if I was going to help him.”
The Chilean Navy expressed “its concern about the situation that affects a member” of the entity.
According to that entity, through official channels it has activated the protocols to come to the aid and support of the family of the missing sailor.
Chilean media reported this Thursday that the victim’s family met with personnel from the Investigative Police to receive information regarding the case.
Yessenia Cruces, mother of the First Corporal of the Navy, asked for help to find her son. “Please do everything you can to find my son. It is desperate not to hear from him, ”she said.
The information that is known is that they have asked for $100,000 as part of the ransom.
The Toledo family was this Thursday at the Investigative Police (PDI) headquarters located in the Brisas del Sol sector, in Talcahuano, in Chile, to meet with detectives from the Special Police Investigations Brigade.
Roxana Muñoz, cousin of the kidnapped sailor in Ecuador, told the newspaper Chilean Province that the PDI took the case and have been pending. “There is a staff that is there and they have been in contact with them,” said Muñoz. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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