The legal scandal of the creative flyer Gabriel Crazy Cortez was remembered in a photo gallery of the newspaper Brand of Spain, in which he recounts the extra-soccer problems that renowned players staged as a result of the problem of the Brazilian Dani Alves for a complaint of sexual assault in a bar in Barcelona.
On April 22, 2022, Cortez was arrested in an operation along with 16 suspects in 29 raids, executed in Esmeraldas, Guayas, and Manabí by the National Police to dismantle a part of the Los Tiguerones criminal gang.
Without directly giving the name of the player, Patricio Carrillo, who was the Minister of the Interior, mentioned: “We not only believe (that) he has participation (with the Los Tiguerones organization), but (that) he was the one who ordered and received the information regarding the people that the hitmen had attacked, depriving them of their lives.”
In judicial proceedings against Gabriel Cortez there is no evidence against him, says the defense attorney
In mid-June, the Crazy he regained his freedom. His lawyer, Alfredo Arboleda, stressed: “There is no evidence linking Cortez to any criminal organization” and that he “should not have spent a single day in prison”; He also said that his client was the victim of discrimination for being “Afro-descendant, it is very easy to link him to a criminal organization.”
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A statement that was supported by Dalo Bucaram, president for life of 9 de Octubre, a club that signed him after he was released from prison. “I fully trust the innocence of the Crazy, not only because of what he told me, but also because our legal team, which handles his case, reviewed the process against him. We thoroughly analyzed all the nine legal bodies that the Prosecutor’s Office has, and we verified that there was not a single element that linked Cortez to everything that was publicly commented. What was said was a fallacy, and what this boy experienced was an injustice. He was unfairly detained for 45 days. Unfortunately, he did not have a good defense at the hearing to formulate charges, ”Bucaram said in the interview published in this newspaper on July 15.
“I read the file, and they put him in jail for receiving two calls and being in two conversations in which he says absolutely nothing. He does not order, he does not direct, he does not coordinate, he did not give weapons and he did not finance. In the world of law this is called a fallacy. All that was stated is not part of the judicial file; there is nothing. I hope that those who judged him, and I’m not talking about EL UNIVERSO but about the digital media, mainly, and about the people who wrote on social networks, behave in the same way when Cortez’s innocence is proven, ”he added.
On Tuesday the 27th, Mercedes Araujo, judge of the Esmeraldas Criminal Unit, called these suspects to trial as perpetrators for their alleged participation in the crime of organized crime.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the agent in charge of the case of the Specialized Investigation Unit against Transnational Organized Crime (Unidot) No. 4, Wilson Toainga, presented various elements of conviction such as monitoring reports and surveillance of the suspects. “In which the way in which the criminal organization operated would be evidenced,” he indicated.
Details of 200 intercepted communications were also exposed at the hearing, through which participation in crimes is presumed, and also the investigation report that is followed by this group related to the Los Tiguerones gang, which would be related to attacks, crimes , extortion, drug trafficking and other acts against their opponents.
In the judicial folios it is stated that Cortez’s defense, made up of Alfredo Arboleda and Dalo Bucaram, insisted on the request for dismissal for the player. (D)
Source: Eluniverso
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