Killed in a dollar purchase: who are the women arrested for the crime of the financier of Almagro

Two women were arrested on charges of the murder of Carlos Walter Molina (34), the financier who was found dead with a shot in the chest in November of the year spent in a department in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Almagro, where he had been summoned to carry out an operation to buy and sell dollars.

According to police sources to Infobae, the suspects were identified as Estefanía Vanesa Romero, 37, and Julieta Antonella Lacivitta, 30, a former employee of a hamburger shop and household appliance chain, beneficiary of various social plans and with a visit to the Federal Prison Service. Lacivitta, as this media outlet learned from court documents, agreed a six-month suspended sentence in June 2019 in a Buenos Aires court for petty theft, with a loot of some bottles of lubricant that he stole from a gas station on Córdoba Avenue.

Similarly, the investigation did not end with the arrests. According to what was revealed to this media outlet, a man still remains at large because of the crime, a partner of one of the detainees, who is also under suspicion of having participated in the act.

Romero was arrested in apartment 1-C on Calle Bonifacio in 1390, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Caballito. There, the members of the Homicide Division of the City Police, together with the tactical groups of the Metropolitan Special Operations Division (DOEM), who participated in the operation, seized two vehicle keys, two cell phones and a Peugeot 208 car.

For her part, Lacivitta was arrested in an apartment located on Julián Álvarez Street in Villa Crespo, where the Buenos Aires Police hijacked seven wallets, $800, three cell phones, four SUBE cards and several mobile phone SIM cards. The sources indicated that in order to reach the suspects, they carried out the tasks of intelligence, geolocation and wiretapping. In addition, there was viewing security cameras and social media analysis.

Molina was killed on November 20 last year after being summoned to department “C” on the 10th floor of a building located in the avenue Díaz Vélez at 3700, in the neighborhood of Almagro. Investigators were able to reconstruct at that time that the victim had been summoned by a woman to carry out a money transaction. The man, who for some years had owned a financial company, had arrived at the place aboard his car and left him parked a few meters from the building. Afterwards, he didn't give any signs again.

When he did not return home, his family filed the complaint by ascertaining his whereabouts. Then, personnel from the 5A Neighborhood Commissary of the City Police received an order from the Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor's Office No. 36, led by Marcelo Munilla Lacasa, to go to the place where the financier had been summoned.

Once inside the apartment, where there was only an armchair and a refrigerator, the officers found Molina dead with a shot in the chest: next to him was a scabbard and a projectile. “He had his wallet on him with his documents. In addition, in the car, 98 thousand pesos were found,” sources with access to the file entrusted to this media outlet. In his pocket, they also found another 34,000 pesos.

Molina worked as a customs broker, had a degree in Foreign Trade and for two years he had a financial company with several clients and taught courses on where and how to invest money. María Belén Pérez, Molina's partner, assured Telam that “he will not stop” until all the accused are detained and that he is now “stronger than ever” to do justice.

“We want justice to be done, for Justice to be able to finish its work and for all those responsible for Walter's murder to be arrested,” he said.

According to the autopsy operation, Molina died from the impact of a 9-millimeter bullet after being hit several times. Romero and Lacivitta are currently facing charges for the crime of simple homicide.

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