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GOYA, Corrientes (From a special correspondent).- The cell phones seized in the framework of the investigation into the disappearance of Loan Danilo Peña, which occurred 15 days ago, have already been sent to Buenos Aires to undergo an expert analysis that could be key to the progress of the case.
This was reported to THE NATION sources with access to the file. Among the mobile phones that will be analyzed by specialists from the Telephone Expertise Division of the Argentine Federal Police (PFA) are found seven devices hijacked in the houses of Catalina Peña and her daughter Laudelina, grandmother and aunt of the child.
The opening of cell phones will be done through what is called Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED) Premium, a technological support that allows you to recover, for example, deleted WhatsApp messages.
“It was authorized that the results be obtained in duplicate so that the second copy can be sent to the High Technology Cybercrime Research Center (Cicat), dependent on the Ministry of National Security, to link and relate all the information obtained. of the hijacked phones, having to respect the chain of custody and evidence protocols
digital forensics.
”, information from the sources consulted.
There are at least 12 cell phones that will be subjected to the expert opinion of PFA specialists, according to what was learned THE NATION.
The investigators’ intention is to reconstruct the incoming and outgoing calls of all the diners at the lunch that took place on Thursday the 13th of this month at the home of Catalina Peña, Loan’s grandmother. The boy disappeared shortly after eating.
Since the day before yesterday, the investigation into Loan’s disappearance has been delegated to the Attorney General of Goya, Mariano de Guzmán; and his colleagues Marcelo Colombo and Alejandra Mángano, officials in charge of the Office of Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Protex). Federal Judge Cristina Elizabeth Pozzer Penzo is involved in the case.
“We must point out that, from the evidence duly submitted, there were indicators that indicated the need to exhaust certain avenues of evidence and adopt those measures that allow ruling out as many criminal hypotheses as possible. Along these lines, and beyond the lack of determination of a specific federal criminal hypothesis in the case, from what was expressed by the declining jurisdiction it is undeniable that, within the framework of the investigation carried out, hypotheses related to organized crime, of a clearly federal nature, linked to the search for the whereabouts of Loan Peña, have gained strength. federal prosecutors maintained in the ruling where they accepted jurisdiction of the case.
At the moment, there are six detainees in the case, and it is being investigated as a case of human trafficking under the hypothesis that Loan was captured for exploitation purposes. But investigators are not ruling out any hypothesis.
