Protected witness says that they killed Villavicencio because he was going to become President – 2024-03-02 23:37:04

The protected witness of the Prosecutor’s Office who in October 2023 gave advanced testimony in the process investigating the murder of the then presidential candidate Fernando Villavicenciowhich occurred on August 9, 2023, has said, in that testimony, that they killed the Construye candidate, because “I was going to become President”, As revealed, the Plan V site.

“Because if they were going to get to the Presidency and they were going to change the sentencing codes, many were going to get there”the witness responded to the question: “Why did the organization want to kill Mr. Villavicencio?”.

Plan V has transcribed a part of the anticipated testimony of the protected witness that the Prosecutor’s Office has read during the preparatory hearing for the trial against the six surviving detainees, of the thirteen initially captured by the National Police after the murder of Villavicencio.

The hearing took place on February 27 at the North Judicial Complex of Quito.

«We worked for a leader who is in the Latacunga prison. We distributed drugs (...) They sent us to see El Cura. He told me that there was a big camel and that they were going to tell me about it. A few days before, on August 5, she contacted me and asked me if he wanted to get me in. I indicated no, because I found out that he was a political person, which I do not agree with. And soon two more people arrived, two generals. There was me and The Old Man, we were talking and they told me who he was and one of the generals approached.

Who is Chino Onda?

According to the Prosecutor’s Office, “The Priest” was José Leonardo Montaño Painting, one of the seven captured after the murder of Villaviencio, and who were later murdered, he in El Inca prison. In a statement issued on the afternoon of this Wednesday, February 28, the Prosecutor’s Office has also specified that the term “generals” is used by that criminal group to refer to the leaders of the organization.

From the testimony it appears that the protected witness is the husband of Laura Dayanara Castillo Velincaptured a month after the murder, and who has been accused by the Prosecutor’s Office as the direct perpetrator of the crime.

After the initial refusal of the protected witness, another person detained in the Latacunga prison, who is with “El Invisible” (that is Carlos Edwin Angulo Laranow accused of being the direct perpetrator of the crime) contacted the protected witness and his partner, Laura, and have informed them «that other people who are more daring are going to enter and who are sent by El Chino, who is in Latacunga, El Chino wanted to take the credit for this death. He told me that I had to do it, I doubted it, yes, I agree. They did not want to tell us how much it cost and which person. “They showed the photograph and then deleted it since they were on a video call.”

It is not clear who El Chino is, since other moments of the story he is described as El Chino Onda, and it is known that he is one of the leaders of Los Invisibles, and that he is held in the Latacunga prison, or at least he was. August 8, when the murder of Villavicencio was ordered.

“You are a fool”

«…On the 7th and 8th they called at 4 in the afternoon that we had to be active on the 7th. At that point, on the 8th, a meeting was held, they sent to say that due to financial issues that more groups were going to enter, this is the group of The Invisible, by Carlos Angulo, (that is to say) the Colombians.

«I argued with my wife because I didn’t want to participate, She told me that if we didn’t do it, they were going to kill us and that they were going to kill the guy who was in Latacunga.. On the 8th they called us to a new meeting in Quitumbe, where everyone who was there met. They sent us to see a Venezuelan from Calderón. I argued with my wife and she told me that they are going to be in a meeting, that it is time to give money to the boys, we stayed to eat, then the meeting was over and that we should pick up Párraga (Erick Marcelo RP) and the Venezuelan, who leaves on brother, my wife and me come in, we say hello and they let us down.

The Prosecutor’s Office says that Párraga is Erick Marcelo Ramírez Párraga. It is not clear who the “Venezuelan” is.

The protected witness says that El Chino and El Invisible ordered them hold a meeting of gunmen, tank the motorcycles and the motorcycle that I was riding was missing, I went to see that motorcycle. That meeting took place on August 8, one day before the murder.

«My wife was in the white Kia with Párraga and I argued with my wife because she told me to drive the motorcycle, she took 300 and 180 dollars, raised her hand at me and left, he told me you are ahuevado. “She got off with him and I got off on the other side, to another sector.”says the protected witness.