Efe Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Updated Friday, January 19, 2024-09:48

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The Police arrested in Córdoba (western Argentina) several relatives of the Ecuadorian drug trafficker José Adolfo

Fito

Macías, a fugitive from justice and who is considered one of those responsible for the wave of violence that Ecuador is experiencing, according to security sources cited by local media.

Those arrested in the operation carried out on Thursday night (Argentina time) had

rented a house in Valle del Golf

, a private neighborhood in Malagueño, on the outskirts of Córdoba, and paid in cash with dollars, according to the newspaper La

Voice of the Interior

, which cites as a source Alberto Bietti, director of Criminal Intelligence of the Córdoba police, who was in charge of the investigation together with the Anti-Drug Police Force.

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Although

the identity or number of those detained has not been officially reported

, local media indicate that there are eight and among them are

Fito

Macias

' wife

, Inda Mariela Peñarrieta Tuarez, and three of his children.