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Jailed gang-leader mastermind behind assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate will head to trial with four oth
Jailed gang-leader mastermind behind assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate will head to trial with four others for murderVillavicencio
PUBLISHED: 17:16 EST, 29 February 2024 | UPDATED: 17:19 EST, 29 February 2024
The jailed gang member accused of masterminding the assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio will head to trial with four others over the murder, a court ruled.
Judge Irene Pesántez said Carlos Angulo, the imprisoned leader of a faction of the feared Los Lobos gang, and Laura Castillo will be tried as co-conspirators.
Alexandra Chimbo, Víctor Flores and Erick Ramírez will be put on trial as accomplices. They are accused of providing surveillance and planning the crime.
Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio seen above at a campaign rally at the T.W. Anderson school in northern Quito moments before he was assassinated August 9, 2023. A court announced Wednesday that five suspects, including the jailed leader of the Los Lobos gang, will go on trial
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The six suspects were arrested at a home they used as a hideout and later murdered in prison on October 6, 2023. Autopsies showed that each of the suspects were strangled.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13142767/Ecuadorian-presidential-candidate-assassination-trial-gang-prison.html