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Alejandra was at the fair that September 28, 2017. She worked there. She was overwhelmed, she had not had a good time the night before, self-conscious about a violent argument with her partner, Jesus Bravo, who worked as a security guard for the securities company, Esertval, a firm that ten days ago had suffered a large robbery in Independencia, where 16 people took about $ 16 billion.
The woman wanted to talk to someone, because the discussion with her partner had some edges of domestic violence. So at 2:03 p.m. he called a friend and told her about his ordeal.
He had already settled in his post, that September 28, 2017, when he received a call, at 2:03 p.m. It was one of her friends. Alejandra told him that he was wrong and related the discussion she had the night before with her partner and her brother. It is in this story he said that he had asked his brother: “How much will they give you in cana?” 20 years for the robbery of the century ”.
The phrase was not only heard by her friend, but also by a team from the OS-9 of the Carabineros that had their communications tapped, as her partner, Jesus, and her brother, Eduardo, they were in the sights of the police for being the security guards of the company where the robbery had taken place.
According to the record of entry and registration to arrest the 16 defendants in the case, both Jesus and Eduardo had given erroneous information and not very credible when declaring as victims in the investigation, a day after the robbery. From day one they were on the suspect’s radar.
“The suspicions were confirmed by a scene reconstruction dated September 20, 2017, carried out by OS-9 with aboth guards and where it was possible to evidence inconsistencies in the story. The defendant Jesús Bravo pointed out that they left him on the ground locking a door to prevent it from closing, but the recordings show that he was taken directly to the company’s yard, where he was handcuffed. The guard claimed to have been handcuffed by the criminals with his hands behind him, but security camera recordings show him sitting on the ground with his hands handcuffed forward. However, when the rest of the band left the scene, Jesús Bravo appears in the recordings, sitting up handcuffed with his hands behind his back. PDue to these suspicions about the true participation of the guards, judicial authorization was requested to proceed with the telephone interception ”of Alejandra, says the letter that the prosecutor sent to the Guarantee Court.
The hours after the robbery were critical for investigators. OS-9 detected all the highway cameras that found the cars that the thieves used for the theft, until they found two burned vehicles in Puente Alto. There was no doubt for the carabinieri that these had been used in the assault.
With this information, the license plates were rescued and the camera system of the highways adjacent to Independencia was searched. They were detected, but since they were false there was not much else to do, so they analyzed which other cars were following the same route in flight, until two other cars followed them.
The records of the Public Ministry, delivered to the court, show that “the Suzuki Grand Nomade vehicle used to commit the robbery carried the license plate DHZH-26 and made the same journey as the other two vehicles. His license plates registered an order for theft dated August 12, 2017 in the municipality of Puente Alto. In the case of the Kia Frontier model truck, it traveled without license plates on the highways, but in conjunction with the other three vehicles. Due to the fact that the four vehicles already mentioned were circulating without TAGs, it was possible to obtain photographs of them taken by the highway gantries. These photos allowed the OS-9 to confirm that the license plates carried by the Peugeot Boxer van, and the Hyundai Santa Fe and Suzuki Grand Nomade station wagons, did not give an account of their true identities, also ruling out the participation of their owners in the commission of the theft from Esertval, since the Peugeot Boxer van belonged to the PPU HVZT-54 and had been stolen from its owner, as well as the Hyundai Santa Fe station wagon, whose true patent was BKJR-21 ″.
One of these cars provided another relevant information for the investigators: the Nissan, Juke model, in the name of the partner of the accused Leandro Alvarado, made the same route as the Hyundai Santa Fe, but on September 18, 2017, at 08:00 38 hours and 12. 14 hours. “By subsequent analysis, it was established that these routes were carried out in order to calculate the travel times prior to the commission of the robbery ”, the prosecutor explained in writing to the 3 Guarantee Court of Santiago.
With this background, plus the tapped phones, the persecutors began to prepare the case. Carabineros took evidence, requested bank details, reviewed credit cards, and began to prepare the counterattack to have the means of proof.
On March 30 of this year he declared Jesus Bravo before OS-9. He did so as a defendant, no longer as a victim, where he started his story stating that “I gave a false statement of the facts to the police officers who attended to carry out proceedings regarding the theft of more than 15,000 million pesos.”
The guard, who in the first instance said that he went out to buy cigarettes and that he was approached by four people who beat him on the ground, recalled how the robbery took place. “This crime was planned in the previous days, I do not remember the exact date, there was a meeting at Mingo’s house, there in addition to the aforementioned was Chupita who is a cousin of Guatón Mingo, he must be about 20 years old, ‘the Karen Paola’ from 20 to 30 years old, close to Leandro, he was from Renca, “el Vaquilla”, “El guatón Nolo”, Leandro, “the old man special in Oxyfuel,” el blaky “,” el viejo Luchín “who is lame,” the soccer player Pino ”,“ the dollar ”, my brother-in-law Eduardo, and I,” he said.
The conversation took place in Lo Prado, where Jesus recalled that “it was said that there were already some supermarket carts stored to be able to get the money from the company, it was noted that who was directing the operation was” old Luchín. ” He was last and everyone waited for him to start planning. In addition to supermarket carts, they said that they had stored the cars, but they had to buy the patents to put them on because they were stolen, a situation that the Vaquilla would take care of. There was also talk of a shed that was rented very close to the company, in Independencia, I am not clear about the exact place but I have knowledge that they leased it, even in the place they mounted a kind of facade of a cleaning company ”.
But, the guard said that this was not the first meeting about the case, but that this was the first where he participated. “The instruction that I received at that time was that the day the crime was committed, I had to go out and shop so that they would approach me outside so they could enter the place, this instruction was given to me particularly by ‘EL Nolo’, he He was very interested in carrying out this operation, he said yes or yes he would do it because he already had another person inside, he even commented that some time ago he had rented an apartment in front of the Esertval company, from where he watched the entry and exit of the trucks from values, watchmen’s hours, time it took for the gate to close, he said thatThe guards left without weapons when they opened the gate, and he also had a lot of knowledge of the internal issue because he had a woman named Rosa who worked inside as head of operations, she gave him all the information. As I recall, ‘el nolo’ said that he went to the department every other day to monitor what was happening with the company. “
In addition, the assailants had all the internal movements of the company. Photos, schedules, shifts, and the operation of the place. All the information was not only spoken by word of mouth, but also images recorded through a “spy watch”. “Eduardo previously recorded with a spy watch the location of the security cameras, the batteries of the smoke sensors and this made it available to the subjects so that they could act more quickly and with knowledge of the infrastructure. Make it known that they should know about the smoke sensors, because they worked for a long time cutting the vault and with it they generated a large amount of smoke, “Jesus told the investigators.
It is already known that the robbery occurred at 1:00 a.m. on September 19, but little about how the robbers went step by step that night. The plan began a couple of hours before, according to the information available to the Public Ministry.
It was at 8:00 p.m. that Jesus and Eduardo’s shift began. The first had asked for a change of day to coincide with the robbery, so it was stipulated. Around 10:12 p.m., Felipe Mateluna arrived at the sector, who along with two other subjects got out of a white van in front of the company carrying a ladder, with which they climbed to a post located on the public road, from which they cut the optical fiber linked to the internet service that connected with the Esertval alarm system, to later leave the place.
Hours later, around 00.45 am, Jesús Bravo left with the excuse of buying cigarettes, and upon returning to the company, “in accordance with what was planned within the illicit association,” says the prosecutor in his letter, He was approached by two subjects: Manuel Díaz, Pablo Cordero, who allegedly intimidated him into entering the compound violently.
Already inside the company was Eduardo Moya, fulfilling his duties as a watchman and also in concert, he proceeded to open the interior door, to continue simulating a robbery with violence, for which reason they beat the guards and handcuffed them. “Once the vigilantes were supposedly reduced and all the security barriers had been overcome, the other defendants arrived at the company in the PPU JCSL-64, van, Peugeot brand, Boxer model, white, year 2016 and the Kia Frontier model truck, white color, which did not carry PPU, entering and making a hole in the vault where the approximately $ 16 billion were in custody. It took them approximately three hours to load all the money, using supermarket trolleys to transport them to the aforementioned vehicles ”.
Three years have passed since the robbery, where the life of the assailants did not change much around the millionaire loot. Three members of the gang were arrested this year by Carabineros for other robberies, and the rest continued to move in the underworld, police sources say. Of course, they invested their money.
The business of the robbers turned towards the purchase of high-end cars and properties. In total, together they accumulated more than 100 vehicles and 37 properties, in addition to the constitution of false companies to triangulate the money, so the Public Ministry also investigates them for the crime of money laundering.
For example, according to the records of the prosecution, delivered to the court of guarantee, the defendant Leandro Alvarado, created two companies. “Transporte Berbey Spa2”, created on June 11, 2019, for road freight transport; and “Prime Spa Mesh”, created on October 11, 2019, protective mesh for terraces.
Domingo Lillo, alias “el mingo”, dedicated himself to buying cars. The last, a Toyota RAV 4, gold, at $ 9.7 million, which were paid in cash with bills of $ 20,000 and $ 10,000 pesos, in the name of his partner. The defendant did not appear directly in the sale, who was represented by his lawyer, who, according to the statement of the seller, asked that the price indicated in the contract be only $ 5 million pesos.
In addition, OS-9 identified a company that the accused Claudio Pino maintains with Pablo Cordero, in which the former has a 25% stake. The first bought houses for over $ 100 million, always giving the 10% foot in cash. Meanwhile, Cordero, through his partner, according to the prosecution, formed two real estate companies.
In yesterday’s arrests, $ 20 million in cash was also seized, in addition to the documents of the companies created by the assailants. It is hoped that more information will come from there to track the rest of the millionaire loot.
