Argentine businessman Sergio Fontanella The Andean National Police confirmed to EFE that he was assassinated this Monday in Iquitos, Peru, the capital of the Loreto department of the Amazon. Security cameras of a business near the restaurant where Fontanella watched the Qatar 2022 playoff game between Peru and Australia captured those moments. two men with their faces covered and on a motorcycle They shot the Argentinean.
Several witnesses to the crime took the businessman into a motorcycle taxi to seek medical care, but they were unable to save his life. According to local media reports, the perpetrators of the crime were later arrested.
Fontanella was in jail for a drug money laundering case involving Alberto Fujimori’s former presidential adviser, Vladimiro Montesinos, although he was finally acquitted in 2018, according to local media. In 2007, the Prosecutor’s Office stated that the defendants had used at least 30 shipping companies in the jungle cities of Iquitos and Pucallpa since 1997. laundering drug proceeds. The Argentine who was killed was known in the region as the owner of several boat companies in the aforementioned Amazon towns.