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Gustavo Shanahan, one of the most mentioned names a decade ago in the glamorous Rosario of business, finance and premium real estate developments, has been indicted since yesterday as a drug trafficker along with seven other men. Formally, he is imprisoned, but not in a common cell like the rest of the gang, but in his semi-floor apartment with a view of the river, on Brown and Presidente Roca. He will add to his bijouterie an electronic monitoring bracelet from the Federal Penitentiary Service. To send him to his house to serve preventive detention, Judge Marcelo Bailaque considered that when the police went to arrest him, the narco financier "accredited a lawful means of life." Four and a half kilos of cocaine, weapons, a drug kitchen, and cash for 34 million pesos and 30,500 dollars was the loot seized from this criminal organization that yesterday received criminal charges and preventive detention pending trial.

Bailaque, in charge of the Federal Court No. 4 of Rosario, prosecuted nine of the 13 people arrested between October 14 and 15, throughout 23 simultaneous raids. One of the places seized was Shanahan's office, on the 6th floor of España 889, downtown, where the gang exchanged their pesos for dollars at the blue price plus an extra percentage for the cost of risk. And also a modest house in Valparaíso at 2700, from where the cocaine that two Paraguayans cooked in an even poorer house was distributed, in Espinosa at 6200, in the Bolatti neighborhood.

Based on the investigations of the Federal Police, wiretaps and monitoring of those involved, in addition to the seizure of cocaine and marijuana in which several defendants were arrested, the judge ruled: "I have confirmed the suspicion that Julio Andrés Rodríguez Granthon, Alexis Ezequiel Manzo, Alfonso Sciortino, Juan Román González, Néstor Ciotti, Gustavo Shanahan, Gustavo Báez Aguilar and Richard Galeano Vázquez sell narcotic material; and that Rodríguez Granthon has the character of organizer, while the others perform different functions.

The latter is nicknamed by his name: Peruvian. He has been serving a sentence in the Federal Oral Court No. 2 of Rosario since last August, in the Marcos Paz prison, for another cause of drug trafficking, and is also being investigated in the murder of former councilor Eduardo Trasante. However, he continued to direct the drug trafficking structure from behind bars, even with telephone numbers from the Federal Penitentiary Service itself. He communicated with Facundo Pérez to order the business. He never called the merchandise by his name but by the brands Sprite, Coca Cola and Manaus, according to marijuana and cocaine of this or that quality.

Facundo Pérez fell at his mother's house, Lima at 2800, just around the corner from the distribution point, at Valparaíso 2696. According to the investigation, from there the drug was supplied to the final sellers, at a rate of half a kilo per week, for each point of sale. Just as he distributed, the collection was concentrated there, which departed for the washing cave. Marcos Díaz was responsible for this carry and bring of bags with money.

This Díaz, with Pérez and Rodríguez Granthon, were for Bailaque the organizers of the narco structure. Meanwhile, Shanahan and Néstor Ciotti were located in the currency exchange instance, from the pesos collected by drug dealing to the dollars sold in black. The magistrate understood, according to his opinion, that it is proven that Shanahan changed the bills of the drug organization so that he could buy the drug in Bolivia and continue the illicit activity. He took it for granted that the band had a certain degree of organization and division of roles, even in the oiled process of exchanging pesos for dollars to provide feedback for the purchase of pasta base, cooking, distributing and continuing to sell.

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Of the rest of the gang, the judge assigned them different minor roles, except for Galeano Vázquez and Báez Aguilar, the cocaine cooks. There are among those investigated two women and a brother of Pérez who for now are free of criminal charges. He placed an embargo of 6.48 million pesos on each one.

The resolution signed by Bailaque describes a series of scenes transcribed by undercover federal agents who had been monitoring the defendants. Although he considers that there was a detected operation of this organization since April, the examples that appear in the imputation document occurred between August and last September: a delivery in Parque Independencia, another in Corrientes 1616, another in Maipú 2021, some in Alvear 862, a couple more at Ovidio Lagos 426, and visits with empty bags that came out full from the Shanahan cave, in Spain and Rioja, and from Néstor Ciotti's house, at Matheu 990.

The cause was precipitated in early October, when an undercover PFA agent was guarding the Villa Banana bunker and was discovered. They shot him down and that sped up the simultaneous raids that sealed Shanahan's fall.

This is the second time this man has hit rock bottom. In 2013, the Justice declared him bankrupt, at the request of a $25,000 promissory note executed by the current president of the Stock Exchange, Daniel Nassini. Until then, the show business press showed him as an active member of that show business. From being a minority shareholder, in 2010 he bought the entire Puerto Rosario Terminal package from Guillermo Salazar Boero, and served the Vicentin group with the landing to take that business into their hands. But before leaving, Shanahan was splashed by the revelation of corruption and money laundering maneuvers involving the former president of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Jordi Pujol, when he admitted having contributed 12 million dollars in black in the Port of Rosario.

Three years earlier, during the administration of Miguel Lifschitz, Shanahan obtained the OK from the Municipality of Rosario for a top development: the Los Pasos complex of private neighborhoods, behind the Carlos Pellegrini country estate and the Jockey Club. By the time he sold his shares of the port to Vicentin, Shanahan was also stumbling over the funding of Los Pasos and the legal action of his investors who saw neither progress in real estate development nor money. Today, from his balcony on the central coast, he will be able to repeat a thousand times those adventures that have come back to him like déjà vu.