2024-05-04 09:47:41
At 2:00 p.m. on July 23, 2023, Agustín Intriago was murdered while visiting the 15 de Septiembre neighborhoodan activity that he carried out within his agenda as mayor of Manta.
This crime caused commotion throughout Ecuador, including Cristina Reyes, long-standing politician and current Andean parliamentarian.
That day he had a conversation with his former communications advisor, Mayra Salazar, now prosecuted for the Metastasis case for her links with Leandro Norero, and who through their conversations the Purga case emerged. that presents a network of corruption in the Provincial Court of Guayas.
In a WhatsApp chat published by the State Attorney General’s Office, it is observed that Reyes wondered, five hours after Intriago’s death, why they killed the mayor of Manta.
Salazar: Cris, I’m still surprised.
Reyes: it would be by contract
Kings: what will be is not fair
When in doubt, Salazar stated that Intriago worked with the criminal organization Los Choneros, and that he granted them contracts.
Salazar: He did work with Choneros
Salazar: he gave them contracts
Reyes: I had them in labor (sic)
Salazar: Sipi
Reyes: if you already put them in, that’s the risk
Salazar: But I don’t know if what happened is from the opposite group.
Reyes: what do you want more
Salazar: or they could also be the same
Through the conversations published within the Metastasis and Purge cases, The relationships that Salazar has with characters from the criminal world are observed.
By September 15, 2023, he textually assured Fabiola Gallardothen president of the Provincial Court of Guayas, who had just signed representation with alias Fitomain leader of Los Choneros.
Likewise, he stated on August 8, 2023, to a contact he had saved as “Joha”, that he wanted to make money participating in the drug trafficking business, with a person he knew from the Sinaloa Cartel, who in turn are linked to Los Choneros in Ecuador.
Agustín Intriago was also mentioned in the chats of the Metastasis case. Between Norero and Hélive Angulo, one of his lawyers, they spoke in August 2022 that the mayor of Manta supported them with worksand that one of the councilor candidates of his movement, for the February 2023 elections, it was put up by alias Fito.
For her part, Attorney General Diana Salazar pointed out at the charging hearing in the Metastasis case that Intriago collaborated with Norero to “coordinate and plan crimes against public administration.”
In a later television interview, Diana Salazar He pointed out that his murder occurred because he no longer had the protection of the drug trafficker.who was victimized in October 2022.