The crime of Valentino Blas Correas, the young man murdered in Córdoba by the police in 2020, has a new resolution before the accusation of the former minister of provincial security, Alfredo Mosquera, and 17 other troops. The measure was established this Wednesday by the Prosecutor of Instruction, Franco Mondino of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office of Córdoba, in the second cause who has this trigger-happy case.
More than a year after two police officers were sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder, and where other agents received sentences according to their degree of responsibility in the crime, this Wednesday it was established analyze cover-up maneuvers and resource management.
Among the accused are Alfredo Mosquera, former Minister of Security of Córdoba; his right hand, Lucas Mezzano and police chiefsamong them Gonzalo Cumplidoformer deputy director of Capital Security.
Mosquera is accused of the crime of ppresentation or offer of a gift, as author and Mezzano faces the same accusation but as a necessary participant. For its part, Compliance is accused of concealment due to failure to report aggravated by the functional quality, by the seriousness of the preceding act, by having been committed in the exercise of their duties and by the crime of admission of giftas author.
The curious thing about this second investigation is that the majority of the 15 police officers charged on this occasion They had already been sentenced in March 2023. It was on the sentencing day when judges Marcelo Jaime, Juan Manuel Ugarte and Mario Centeno ruled that a new investigation begins to establish what impact the officials and police had in the case.
On the point of gifts, it is worth noting that in the trial for Blas’s crime it was learned that Fulfilled received a Toyota Corolla car which was in the name of Mario Valverde, an administrative employee of the Security portfolio.
During his statement, Mosquera He had acknowledged that the former commissioner asked him for a vehicle two days after the homicide and added: “I found out that an official had two cars, one unused, and I tell him that I have to fulfill a personal favor for a few days.”.
The former deputy director of Capital Security South Zone had said in television statements that the delivery of the car took place “within the proposals” What Mosquera did to him about his continuity within the force “occupying a position of general coordinator between the Police and the Ministry”.
Also There are 15 other people charged, the majority are police officers and have already received their sentence in the first trial. In fact, Corporal Javier Alarcón, one of those who shot Blas, is accused of the crime of violating evidence as the author.
However, in this resolution of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office of the second shift They did not order the indictment of the former Police Chief, Liliana Zárate Belletti. The judges had resolved in March 2023 to begin an investigation against Zárate Belletti or personnel under her charge when she was director of Human Resources, that is, when Blas’ murder occurred on August 6, 2020. They intended to investigate her role. in supervising the training and training of police personnel.
Now, the 18 defendants in total must testify before prosecutor Mondino on July 2, 3 and 4.
Lawyer Alejandro Pérez Moreno, who represents the family of the murdered teenager, stated that “they are satisfied” with the measure taken by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor because “there is a complete investigation.” “The family’s expectations are that there will be a comprehensive investigation, which did not happen that dark night when the incident occurred,” he explained.
Regarding the situation of the former Police Chief, Liliana Zárate Belletti, who at the moment was not involved in this investigation, she stated: “From the beginning we knew that not everyone was going to be charged and we respect that it is not for now.” .
