Policiales

With deception and disguise, they killed the owner of an exchange agency in Neuquén

Miguel "El Ruso" Auer was a 58-year-old agent murdered in 2022. This Tuesday, Jorge Falconi, Gabriel Castro, Jorge Sosa and Miguel Livello sit on the dock for the crime of "attempted robbery aggravated by the use of firearm in real competition with triple qualified homicide.

  • 23/10/2023 • 22:26

Starting this Tuesday, a popular jury is trying four men accused of shooting to death the owner of an exchange agency during an assault committed last year in the city of Neuquén, for which one of them, who was known, acted as a link. another, who pretended to be a client, while the remaining two disguised themselves in order to surprise him in his office, judicial sources reported. The fact that will be debated in the oral trial with juries is the murder of Miguel "El Ruso" Auer, a 58-year-old agent who had an office where he carried out money exchange operations in the area of Argentina Avenue and San Martín. The hearing will begin at 9 a.m. after the selection of jurors was carried out a week ago (twelve regulars and four substitutes, with equal numbers of men and women), in the Judicial City, with the participation of the chief prosecutor Juan Agustín García, along with the legal assistant Guadalupe Inaudi. Judicial sources informed Télam that the Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF) charged Jorge Falconi, Gabriel Castro, Jorge Sosa and Miguel Livello with the crime of "attempted robbery aggravated by the use of a firearm in a real competition with triple qualified homicide, for having been committed criminis causa, with the premeditated collaboration of two or more people and by use of a firearm", which provides for the penalty of life imprisonment. The first three defendants are considered co-authors, while the remaining one is a necessary participant. For the suspects to be declared guilty, at least eight votes of the twelve members of the popular jury are required and, if there are fewer, the verdict will be not guilty. According to sources, around 45 people were called as witnesses to answer questions from the prosecution and defense counsel. "An expert report established that my client is not the person who appears in the videos, he is innocent," lawyer Elio García told Télam, who together with his colleague Maximiliano Gómez represents Castro, the accused who for the prosecution pretended to be interested in a currency purchase and sale operation to gain access to the victim's office.