A businessman from Córdoba was murdered by two hit men this Monday afternoon in Peru, watching the local team’s game against Australia for a place at the Qatar 2022 World Cup. This is Sergio Fontanella, who was recently acquitted of money laundering and drug trafficking charges.

The murder took place in a restaurant in the port city of Iquitos and was filmed by security cameras in the area.

In the video of the attack, which went viral, you can see how two men on motorcycles stop briefly in front of the door of the premises where Fontanella was and then one of them, without getting out of the vehicle, shoot him several times to Argentina before fleeing immediately.

Other people who were on the scene also filmed the minutes after the attack, in which you can see how Fontanella is lifted from the ground, seriously injured, to be transferred to the hospital. by mototaxialready with the presence of the police on the spot.

According to the site Loreto at the minutethe injured he was taken to a local clinicfrom which his death was reported shortly after.

The two attackers who, according to various local media, they would be of Colombian nationality, they were arrested a few minutes after the attack. In one of the videos captured by the witnesses, both can be seen handcuffed by the police.

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Fontanella had beenor arrested in Buenos Aires in 2011 on an accusation that weighed on him in Peru of money laundering and drug trafficking in the 1990s and early 2000s. When he was arrested, Fontanella had been a fugitive from Peruvian justice for four years. Despite this, he only spent two months in prison and was not deported.

Owner of a service company in Iquitos, Fontanella was also of Peruvian nationality.

Fontanella had been accused of drug trafficking in Mexico and Colombia through parcels from some of the companies he managed. According to the accusations, the money would have returned to enter Peru thanks to the approval given to it by the government of Alberto Fujimori, whose adviser Vladimiro Montesinos charged 10 or 15 percent withholding of that laundered money.

Total, was charged with money laundering of over $ 3.7 million and to have a close relationship with the dangerous drug trafficker Fernando “Melgarejo” Zevallos and with Vladimiro Montesinos, former adviser to Fujimori.

However, in 2018, after a case that had been going on for thirteen years, Fontanella was acquitted along with his former partner Daniel Yabbur, among other defendants, on charges of “money laundering from illicit drug trafficking”. For the Peruvian Court, the crimes were not proven and there was a “inadequate evaluation of testimonials”, among other considerations. In the same process, Montesinos was also acquitted.

Local media link the attack that ended his life a showdown from to quarrel he had with his former partners over some land and river boats that Fontanella was trying to recover.

In an interview with the media Grandstandfrom Río Terzo, in 2018 Fontanella assured that he would ask the Peruvian government I would return it 51 ships which were seized and handed over to the municipalities for their use; furthermore 18 cranesshovels, bulldozers, backhoe loaders, ports, departments and premises.

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