They found a former deputy security minister and former anti-drug prosecutor of Paraguay dead with two blows to the head

the corpse of Javier Ibarraformer Deputy Minister of Security e former Paraguayan drug prosecutorwas found this Friday with two blows to the head at his home in the city of San Lorenzo, according to local police.

“The body of former minister Javier Ibarra was found in the kitchen of his home. We have no information on previous reports of threats,” Commissioner César Silguero, head of Homicide, said at a press conference.

As he explained, the autopsy results confirm that the victim died from “two shots to the temple“.

“We always start from the worst case scenario, which is why, at this moment, it is being investigated as a homicide, before analyzing other elements. First of all we talk about 22 caliber bullets or similar. He was in the kitchen and the weapons were elsewhere. There are no indications of lock picking,” he concluded.

Despite the evidence, the prosecutor of the case, Gerardo Mosquera, has not ruled out any hypothesis: “Suicide cannot be ruled out. We have no disorder, no trace of violence. Nothing can be ruled out.”

Ibarra was Deputy Minister of Internal Security in the Ministry of the Interior in the government of Horacio Cartes (2013-2018).

Ibarra had denounced that he was “in the crosshairs” of several criminals

In 2016, Ibarra denounced that unknown They forced their vehicle to take three weapons of war belonging to the police station. He also accused the former drug chief at the time of organizing a campaign to have him removed. After the accident, he resigned and returned to the prosecutor’s office for another couple of years.

After leaving office, He denounced being “in the crosshairs” of several criminalsbut that he would assume no special security.

“There is a huge power struggle to control drug trafficking. Many people must be very concerned. In this power struggle, everyone knows where their shoes pinch,” Ibarra said in 2018, in one of his latest public statements before leaving the Public Prosecutor to devote himself to the profession of criminal lawyer.

A recent case: the murdered Paraguayan prosecutor and a reward of 5 million dollars

In Paraguay, the assassination last May of anti-drug prosecutor Marcelo Pecci on a Colombian Caribbean beach while enjoying their honeymoon.

That country’s police have caught the perpetrators of the event, and the US government announced on November 17 that it is offering a reward up to $5,000,000 for information on the perpetrators of the crime.

The Colombian justice sentenced the five perpetrators of the crime to 23 and a half years in prison, four of whom pleaded guilty.

Pecci, 45, prosecutor specializing in drug trafficking and money laundering, was filmed on May 10 on a beach on the island of Barú, near Cartagena, while spending his honeymoon with his wife, journalist Claudia Aguilera. The attack was carried out by goons who arrived on a jet ski.

The authorities They have not identified the masterminds responsible for the murderfor which the attackers received approximately $530,000.