2024-03-25 00:46:24
CASE
The State Attorney General, Diana Salazar, has initiated a criminal investigation against journalist Andersson Boscán for his possible involvement in the crime of public action. This measure has been taken after the discovery of chats in the Threema application, found on the cell phone of drug trafficker Leandro Norero, known as “Patrón”, who was murdered on October 3, 2022 in the Cotopaxi prison.
The chats suggest a close collaboration between Boscán and Norero, focused on topics such as support on social networks and obtaining inside information from public companies. In one of the conversations dated July 30, 2022, the journalist addresses Norero with a “How are you, brother?”, to which Norero responds with a “Hahaha, how are we doing?”
Given these findings, the Prosecutor’s Office has ordered the obtaining of certified copies of a Forensic Computer Expert Technical Report to deepen the investigation into Boscán and the events described in the Threema conversations.
In response to the investigation, Boscán expressed his agreement through the X platform, noting that he has already provided relevant explanations. “I am glad that the Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the 34 pages of chats that belong to me in a file of 50 thousand, far from Metastasis and its crimes associated with organized crime. Of course, I have already given up and will continue to give explanations,” he wrote.
The Prosecutor’s Office, in accordance with constitutional principles, has sent the pertinent documentation to the General Coordination of Access to Criminal Justice to begin the corresponding investigation, after the corresponding draw of the responsible unit.
Boscán and Norero Chats
Since December 2023, when the Metastasis case came to light, the State Attorney General’s Office published the excerpts of the conversations between Norero and different people.
In the extraction expertise there is one in which Norero talks with a user called “SNTURDDZ”, who is identified by the entity as the journalist Andersson Boscán, while the alias Patrón was “Owner”.
The central topic of a conversation was about “support on social networks and information from public companies by Norero.” The user identified as Boscán greets Norero and informs him that he is “fighting with politicians and investigating customs and Petroecuador.”
Owner: Those politicians are relaxing (…) Let me know if you need anything and activate eyes and ears everywhere.
SNTURDDZ: If your people know something about customs, luxury. I am behind the political part: Carola Ríos, Eljuri, Minister Fabián Pozo. Hence the smuggling and drugs part does not interest me.
In another excerpt in which the Prosecutor’s Office anticipates that the issue of “Norero’s habeas corpus” is addressed, the alleged drug trafficker indicates that he is leaving for a hearing. The date of these messages is August 18 of last year.
Owner: Yes “ñño”, that happened to you right now I’m going to the exit to the habeas hearing hahahaha but then they publish they deny the hc to boss norero.
SNTURDDZ: Good luck.
Owner: Hahaha I already know what the resolution is hahahaha denied hahaha
Owner: -Send the link of a tweet by murdered former legislator Fernando Villavicencio-
SNTURDDZ: Fits perfectly (…) But with video and audio and all the toys.
To access the complete conversation published by the Prosecutor’s Office and review the rest of the message exchanges with other alleged parties involved in the case, click on this link.
When searching Norero’s phones, the Prosecutor’s Office found “evidence” of a network of influence and bribery made up of judicial officials of the National Court of Justice and provincial courts of Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Manabí, Cotopaxi and Guayas, in exchange for benefits. judicial.
The ‘Metastasis’ case uncovered an alleged large plot of organized crime in the judicial, police and prison functions, for which the former president of the Judiciary Council, Wilman Terán, was sent to prison, who at the time of the events investigated was He served as a national judge, as did judges, prosecutors, officials of the Judiciary Council and the SNAI, freely practicing lawyers and others.