They released “Ojito”, the drug dealer who ratted on the Santa Fe Police: the Justice considered that he studied in prison

The Rosario drug trafficker Ignacio Mario “Ojito” Actis Caporale, who was sentenced on March 11 last year to 9 years and 6 months in prison, was released under the parole regime. The decision taken by Federal Oral Court No. 3 was due to the fact that the sentence is not final, that he has been detained since December 18, 2016 and to “educational stimuli”, since he conducted studies during the time of confinement.

The fall of Actis Caporale made a noise in Santa Fe in December 2016, when the Airport Security Police arrested him at the Buenos Aires racetrack, as he was running as a pilot under the pseudonym “Alex Aqua”.

“Ojito” was on the run as a member of an organization engaged in the purchase, sale and distribution of marijuana, cocaine, lysergic acid (LSD) and methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA or ecstasy). According to the investigation of the Federal Justice of Rosario and the Procunar, it operated in Santa Fe, in some parts of the City of Buenos Aires and had international ties.

Once he was arrested, a senior police chief began asking for clues to give interviews in the Rosario media, as the only one who had stopped Actis Caporale in his early days as a drug dealer in Pringles square, in front of the Rosario Stock Exchange located in the microcenter of Rosario. That official was Alejandro Druetta, former head of Dangerous Drugs of Venado Tuerto and Villa Constitución and, at that time, head of Counterintelligence of the Investigative Police (PDI): he was later convicted as head of “Ojito” in the criminal structure under investigation.

“Nacho had the peculiarity of being nice, incoming. He's smart to talk. I stopped him ten years ago at Pringles Square. He was a good kid, from an upper-middle class environment who sold ecstasy and LSD for electronic parties. He loved the exhibition, let them follow him. He's a bold guy,” Druetta said on December 19, 2016 during a radio interview.

Actis Caporale himself, between 2018 and 2019, asked to take advantage of the figure of accused collaborator and provided information to federal prosecutor Claudio Kishimoto and the Procunar on the upper echelons of his band. He stated at the time, with data that were later accredited, that he actually worked for the Santa Fe Police. He specified two names: Druetta and Juan “Tiburón” Delmastro.

The extension of “Ojito” consisted of giving days, contexts and data on police procedures that were starring Druetta and Delmastro that were considered “positive”, with arrests and drug abduction. Coincidentally, those arrested were the ones who bought the drug from “Nacho”.

In summary, and as stated in the federal trial before TOF 3 in Rosario, Actis Caporale gave information to Druetta and Delmastro about whom he sold narcotics to and those agents then made arrests with drug seizures in proceedings based on anonymous daters or street information. Thus, drug traffickers benefited because the commercialization was carried out, and the agents grew in “prestige” and gained promotions.

One of the reserved testimonies given in the investigation of the case went so far as to point out that “Druetta was the one who delivered the drug and often said who it should be sold to. He also asked to be handed over to people who bought them for him after they were arrested and with those procedures he would move up in his police career.”

Federico Reynares Solari, the prosecutor who indicted Druetta, Delmastro and “Ojito” in the federal trial, said on Radio 2 on February 15 last year: “There were structures in the Santa Fe Police, a state regulation of drug trafficking. Letting one another sell is not an involvement in drug trafficking.”

The band that was convicted on March 11 last year ran from July 5, 2007 to September 26, 2012. Druetta received 10 years in prison as a necessary participant in the crime of drug trafficking, while the Delmastro police officer was given 7 years for the same legal qualification.

A curious fact was that “Tiburón” Delmastro, when he was convicted of being part of the same narco structure together with Druetta and Actis Caporale, was already serving a sentence of 6 years and 6 months in prison as a member of the Los Monos gang.

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