Government presents Evo's former anti-drug chief and requests information from the US Embassy

The former head of the Special Force to Fight Drug Trafficking (Felcn), in the management of the government of Evo Morales, Maximiliano Dávila, was presented by the Minister of Government, Eduardo Del Castillo, who sent the United States Embassy to request information. about the DEA complaint.

Handcuffed and escorted by two armed police officers, the former police chief was presented to the media. In this regard, Del Castillo stated that no authority will be covered up and detected if they are investigated by the police.

"With this we demonstrate that the investigations are being carried out to determine the links of this man with the investigations of illicit profits, which the Bolivian Police is carrying out. Other people could also be linked, always remembering that they are in a personal capacity and that the investigations determine the actions to be carried out," the authority said.

Dávila was apprehended on Saturday night in the border region of Villazón in Potosí, around 11:30 p.m., when he intended to cross the border into Argentina. On January 21, prosecutor Lupe Zabala issued an arrest warrant against the former police chief, he is being investigated for the crime of legitimizing illicit profits.

She explained that this Saturday Dávila was found in Cochabamba, traveled to Oruro, later to Potosí and followed alternate paths through the towns of Challapata, Uyuni Atocha, Tupiza and was apprehended in Villazón, five minutes from the border.

He noted that through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs he has requested "more information on the case denounced by the DEA" from the United States Embassy, ​​to contrast the information.

He explained that on this day four raids were carried out, one of them in the Barrio Lindo area in Santa Cruz where no kidnapping was carried out since other people would be living in the house; From the house located in the Chacarilla area of ​​the capital of Santa Cruz, computers, six cell phones, a USB memory, a Suzuki brand vehicle, among other materials, were seized.

The third and fourth raids in the area of ​​Zarco Calle Pasaje Gandarillas in the department of Cochabamba found a double-barreled shotgun, US$14,000, and a vehicle. Also four iPhone cell phones, two tablets, two laptops and several documents.

The former head of the anti-drug force declared this Saturday in his news bulletin he accepted his right to remain silent and the Prosecutor's Office analyzes the following procedural steps to define his legal situation.

Finally, Zabala announced that the investigations will reach her relatives and other people involved in the case.

According to the arrest substantiation report, the Public Ministry took into account the DEA report where it states that Dávila together with ex-major Omar Rojas Echeverría, called "Bolivian Pablo Escobar" are part of a network of drug traffickers between Peru, Colombia and Bolivia.

The investigation also mentions Bolivians Jorge Roca Suárez (Techo 'e Paja) and Alexander Rojas (former director of Felcn).