2023-12-27 17:13:24
The Aragón family appears as a fundamental piece in the alleged network used by Alejandro Arias Monge, alias Diablo, through money laundering in various businesses such as supermarkets, pharmacies, a soccer team and even the illegality of drop-by-drop loans.
But what relationship does Monge have with that family? According to judicial file 21-000115-0622-PE of the Colorado Case, the fugitive drug trafficker had a romantic relationship and fathered a daughter with Mariela Aragón Pérez, daughter of the owner of the businesses that Diablo apparently used to wash.
She is one of the people who was arrested last Monday in Operation Redemption, carried out by the Judicial Investigation Agency to dismantle the economic arm of the leader of the organization.
Her brother fell next to her Jose Orlando Aragon Perez, brother, alias Minion or Miño and his father Orlando Aragon Cruz, as suspected of lending their business to launder money from the crimes that Monge allegedly commits.
“In this case, reference must be made to the subject identified as José Orlando Aragón Pérez, known as “José Aragón or Minion Aragón”, who has already been mentioned paragraphs above, where it was reported the romantic relationship that his sister named Mariela Aragón Pérez had with Alejandro Arias Monge in the years from 2013 to 2017 approximately, as a result of said romantic relationship, they have a daughter in common,” details the judicial document held by CRHoy.com.
The judicial report states that this relationship placed this family in a privileged position at the top of the organization, especially because of José Orlando.
“(…) These acts have allowed them to open three grocery and liquor stores, Licorera and Supermercado Aragón.located in Guápiles, in the town of Astúa Pirie, Licorera and Supermercado Aragón located in the province of Puntarenas, Parrita, adjacent to Prefabricado Parrita and Súper y Licorera, Hermanos Aragón, located in Guápiles, Cariari.
These commercial establishments have presented an abrupt exponential growth, as a result of the illicit activity of money laundering that they are accused of, which was exposed through the telephone opening conceived around the seizure of the cell phone of Charlyn Jiménez Villalobos (girlfriend of Diablo), where It was possible to perceive a list of notes on the delivery and receipt of drugs, and a list of money debts was also perceived in which reference was made to José Orlando Aragón Pérez, which confirmed the role played by the members of the Aragón family throughout the insider of the criminal group“explains the document.
What is the soccer team?
The OIJ report delves into the businesses in which the Aragón family has ventured in recent years and which it is suspected of facilitating organized crime, highlighting the incursion into national football, according to the evidence that could be obtained in the interventions. telephone calls and investment analysis.
“(…) they provided an even clearer picture of the actions of the messenger, as well as the ways and system he has to carry out money movements quickly, this through the acquisition of movable and immovable property, loans of large amounts of money (called drop by drop loans), investments and sponsorships of soccer teams (Cariari Pococí Sports Association), collaboration in the crime of liquor smugglingthis through buying and selling them in Supermarkets, Liquor Stores and Distributors
associated with the Aragón Family.
Even on the AD Cariari shirt, Supermercados Aragón, a business owned by that family, appeared as one of the main sponsors.
In one of the communications intercepted from a subject named Guzmán Castro (alias Mocha) with José Orlando Aragón, the investigators were able to confirm that the businessmen were not only sponsors, but that they were very aware of the team’s results, they also talked about debts and money to move in AD Cariari.
“From the previous call between José Orlando and the identified subject “Mocha” the confidential information received at the beginning of the investigation can be confirmed, as it became more than clear that José “Minion” has a direct relationship with the Cariari Pococí Sports Association and that he is injecting capital into said soccer association, this being a typical and acquired behavior by criminal groups with the intention of mixing illicit money without calling the attention of the police forcesthis as has been contemplated in already completed investigations related to drug trafficking and related crimes, in this case in the crime of Money Laundering,” the official document states.
Earnings, lottery and loans
It is added that another of the conversations proves that the Aragón Family invested a large amount of money in the purchase and sale of livestock, which for the police is one of the strategies that criminal groups use to legitimize their money of dubious origin.
“(…) they are legitimizing their money, this is because the movements are almost untraceable, because in most cases it is purchased with cash and is subsequently reimbursed through legal means at different livestock auctions or livestock slaughterhouses such as for example El Arreo located in Alajuela, to mention one of the existing ones,” they mention.
Regarding Mariela, according to the agents in charge of presenting the report, it was possible to determine her link with the illicit business of selling clandestine chances“this is the product of the association with his former sister-in-law Gelen Arias Monge, a typology currently adapted by criminal groups to clean money from drug trafficking quickly and expeditiously.”
It was revealed that José Aragón was also involved in the business of lending money informally, in a drop-by-drop manner.
“(…) for this reason we ask ourselves the question of whether the Aragón Supermarket generates enough profits for Minion to lend those amounts of money or whether the confidential information received is confirmed where the Aragón Family was indicated as the main recipients of money from the criminal group led by Alejandro Arias Monge,” the investigators explain.
These people and 18 others are being investigated in the case for their closeness to Diablo and business alliances in their intentions to launder assets.
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