The former candidate for Miss Ecuador Landy Parragawho was mentioned in a case investigating an alleged plot of judicial, police and prison corruption, she was murdered this sunday while in a restaurant.
In a video that circulates on social networks you can see the moment in which a subject enters the restaurant and He repeatedly shoots Párraga, 23 years old.
Landy Párraga, model and former beauty queen candidate, was murdered inside the restaurant located in a shopping center located in the city of Quevedo.
The woman had finished eating breakfast when hitmen approached her and shot her several times. He was with his partner, who was also attacked by the criminals. Everything was recorded by the establishment’s security cameras.
Relations with a drug lord
The name of Párraga hHe had been related to the alleged drug trafficker and money launderer Leandro Norero and the case ‘Metastasis’ about an alleged corruption network in favor of criminal structures evidenced after accessing the information contained in Norero’s cell phone, killed in 2022 in the prison of the city of Latacunga.
The former beauty queen was gunned down in the tropical province of Los Ríos, where he had gone for a social event.
The ‘Metastasis’ case came to light at the end of 2023 with a large operation in which 39 people were arrested, including the then president of the Judiciary Council Wilman Terán, who is currently in provisional prison.
In the case, which already has more than fifty people prosecuted, Several conversations from seized cell phones were revealed in which The name of Párraga appears on several occasions.
On July 13, 2022, Norero was talking to Helive Angulo, alias ‘Estimado’, one of his trusted men. Norero was being investigated for money laundering and Angulo had infiltrators in the police team behind the case, noted the digital media Primicias.
‘Dear’ told Norero that The police had asked him about Landy Párraga and the inmate asked him that “for nothing in the world does the woman’s name have to appear (sic).”
According to ‘Dear’, Párraga had an importer and the police had to check it due to a request from the Prosecutor’s Office. Norero responded that that importer was not from Landy Párraga.
From the conversations it emerges that ‘El Patrón’, as Norero was called, she insisted on avoiding being linked to him and that the name of the former candidate for Miss Ecuador reached the ears of his wife.
According to the Ecuadorian Police, Norero was in charge from the Latacunga prison, in the Andean province of Cotopaxito finance and sponsor Los Lobos, Los Tiguerones and the Chone Killers, among other criminal gangs that sought to displace the hegemony of Los Choneros, the oldest and largest group operating in the country.
Also from the ‘Metastasis’ case the ‘Purge’ case is derived, where currently there are a dozen defendants for an alleged plot of judicial corruption within the Court of Justice of the coastal province of Guayas, which gave rulings favorable to the drug trafficker José Adolfo Macías Villamar (‘Fito’), the leader of the Choneros, whose escape from prison the authorities realized last January.
In the midst of a growing wave of violence while the authorities searched for ‘Fito’, the head of state, Daniel Noboa, declared last January the “internal armed conflict” against criminal gangs, which he began to call “terrorists.”
