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Chile on alert over extortionate kidnappings by Tren de Aragua and its factions
Hassel Barrientos (Concepción, 50 years old), deputy prefect and head of the Special Antisecuestro Investigations Brigade (BIPE) of the Chilean Investigative Police (PDI), led the investigation that allowed the release, on April 29 and after a tense 180 hours, of the 84-year-old hardware businessman, Jorge Vera, kidnapped in Santiago. It is a case in which five people were quickly arrested. Of these, four are foreigners, linked to Tren de Aragua, and the fifth, arrested this Tuesday, is a Chilean who acted as a guard. In the same week, a Peruvian woman, also a merchant, was the victim of this same crime, committed by four criminals, two Chileans and two Venezuelans, who have already been captured.
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