The case for the crime of businessman Fernando “Lechuga” Pérez Algaba had the news this Tuesday of two defendants arrested, after the Justice decided that they await trial in prison. In addition, a third person involved in the homicide would turn himself in in the next few hours.
According to police sources, The detainees are Fernando Gastón Martín Carrizo (34 years old), Luis Alberto Contreras (38), who participated in the murder of Pérez Algaba, the trader who was found dismembered in a suitcase in a stream in Lomas de Zamora.
For his part, Matías Ezequiel Gil, another of the accused, would surrender in the next few hours, according to the authorities.
As for those arrested this Tuesday, Carrizo was arrested in Hurlingham and Contreras in Ingeniero Budge, in the town where the businessman was found dismembered.
These two men are accused of the crimes of “triple aggravated homicide for being committed out of treachery, greed and for being premeditated with several people with the use of a firearm.”
The case is being processed in UFI Number 5, led by Dr. Marcelo Domínguez.
In addition to the two detainees and Gil, Maximiliano Pilepich and Nahuel Vargas, who were associates of the victim, Flavia Bomrad, Horacio Córdoba, a former commissioner of the City Police, and Blanca Cristaldo, will be tried for the crime.
What was the crime of Fernando Pérez Algaba like?
The eccentric 41-year-old businessman was found on July 23, 2023 dismembered and inside a suitcase in a stream of Ingeniero Budge, in the Lomas de Zamora district.
The place where Pérez Algaba was found, in Ingeniero Budge.Pérez Algaba, with a registered address in Castelar and another in Ituzaingó, lived in Miami until the beginning of this year and had recently arrived in Argentina, from Spain.
Everything was discovered in the King’s Creek, when a group of boys playing ball found an abandoned suitcase. Inside, there were two arms and two legs.
The fingerprints of the human remains that the Scientific Police were able to collect were key to identifying him. The tattoos on his extremities confirmed that he was Pérez Algaba, reported the Diario Conurbano portal.
Furthermore, on Monday, when drainage tasks were being carried out in the stream, the torso was found, which had two bullet wounds. All parties had tattoos.
The next day, they found the victim’s head inside a backpack in the same stream.
Who was “Lechuga” Pérez Algaba
The eccentric businessman was a trader and was even a pilot for the TC Regional. In 2022, a video had gone viral in which he attacked a traffic agent in Mar del Plata. Previously, aboard a Mercedes Benz, he had refused to take a breathalyzer test.
Fernando “Lechuga” Pérez Algaba (41) was murdered and dismembered.For this fact, he was charged with “resistance to authority” and his driver’s license was preventively suspended. He also had a large number of fines for speeding.
He claimed to have worked as a Forex and cryptocurrency trader in Buenos Aires. With that experience, he founded his own car rental company and a jet ski company in Miami, Florida. “Enjoy Rental Car” or “Enjoy a rental car”, he named it. It offered its service to both tourists and local residents.
