In July 2012, Galo Chiriboga, a prosecutor during the Rafael Correa government, announced that Álex Vicente Cedeño Molina would be part of the victims and witnesses program to protect his life and that of his family.
Cedeño Molina, assassinated on the night of this Monday, March 21, in the north of Guayaquil, had been a key piece for the Prosecutor’s Office at that time in the case of the triple murder in Quinsaloma, in which former legislator Galo Lara was involved.
Cedeño was shot dead at the intersection of Jorge Jara Grau and Rosa Campuzano streets (2nd Passage 32NO), after 6:00 p.m. He was driving a truck. According to the first investigations, the attack was carried out by people who were traveling in a car a few meters from the traffic light in that area. Witnesses said they heard a burst of gunshots.
A decade ago, Cedeño was interrogated by Galo Chiriboga. Before him, he said that he was a compadre of the murdered family, Llanos Parco, and that Galo Lara and Carolina Llanos “threatened their compadre Carlos Humberto Llanos with death, a few days before the crime.”
Within his version, Cedeño indicated that Llanos, who was linked as the alleged mastermind of this triple homicide, allegedly had a romantic relationship with Humberto Llanos, according to the Prosecutor’s Office at the time.
On August 4, 2011, in the Balserío complex, three members of the same family were murdered: Ángel Carlos Humberto Llanos Avendaño; his wife, Silvia Parco Valverde; and his son Carlos Augusto.
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Cedeño was not a witness with an impeccable judicial past. Years before, his name had been involved in various legal proceedings, including for crimes against life.
In 2002, Cedeño was involved in a crime that occurred in a San Juan cockpit, in Puebloviejo, Los Ríos. The case did not prosper. The victim’s family chose not to report him as an actor in the case, because he argued that he could not involve him.
It was also related to the murder of sports leader Joselo Rodríguez, which occurred that same year on the Jujan-Yaguachi road. Rodríguez had been a leader of Santa Rita and his name had jumped out in a brawl in which Hernán Darío Gómez, then Ecuador’s coach, was attacked.
The Police even pointed to Cedeño in the crime of Rodríguez. At the time it was said that Rodríguez had a debt of 30,000 dollars with Cedeño Molina. Marco Morales, then head of the Judicial Police of Guayas, said that the agents captured Pedro Aníbal Cedeño Anzules one weekend, who confessed during the interrogations that “the order to carry out the crime was given by Cedeño Molina, material author and intellectual”. However, he was later dismissed.
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Galo Lara, who was sentenced to ten years for the Quinsaloma crimes, says that Cedeño was the man they took out of jail, where he was being held for the crime of a gallero in Puebloviejo, in exchange for making him a witness against him.
The former legislator pointed out that “this subject was asking for something in exchange for his silence.”
“Now we see how those who armed the persecution are the ones who are getting rid of the evidence. Before leaving prison, I forgave my persecutors, all of them,” he said. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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