Beauty queen shot dead after octopus ceviche order led killers to restaurant

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By James Badcock

May 4, 2024 — 12.51pm

An Ecuadorian quality queen was assassinated aft her Instagram station of a sheet of octopus ceviche led gunmen to the edifice wherever she was dining.

Police are investigating the shooting of 23-year-old Landy Parraga amid media speculation the deed was ordered by the widow of a cause lord with whom she is believed to person had an affair.

Landy Parraga posted her luncheon determination to her 173,000 followers connected Instagram.

The quality queen and societal media influencer was gunned down soon aft her sanction appeared successful a corruption enquiry linking judicial officials to organised crime.

Parraga had conscionable posted a photograph of the ceviche she was astir to devour for luncheon to her 173,000 followers connected Instagram erstwhile 2 equipped men burst into the edifice successful Quevedo and fired respective times astatine her.

The restaurant’s CCTV captured Parraga coming nether fire. She was reportedly changeable 3 times and died soon after.

Parraga, a quality queen and societal media influencer, was gunned down soon aft her sanction appeared successful a corruption inquiry.

Parraga, who took 5th spot successful the 2022 variation of Miss Ecuador, is said to person been the person of Leandro Norero, a joined cause trafficker who was killed successful a situation riot 18 months ago.

Investigators recovered photos of the quality queen and grounds of the lavish gifts helium gave her, including apartments and cars, connected Norero’s telephone aft his death.

“If my woman comes crossed thing astir her, I’m screwed,” Norero had said of Parraga to an alleged transgression associate, Helive Angulo.

He added: “My friend, her sanction cannot travel retired anywhere. Otherwise, my satellite volition travel crashing down.”

Angulo is 1 of immoderate 50 radical being prosecuted arsenic a effect of Operation Metastasis, the probe into a transgression web accused of corrupting Ecuadorian authorities officials.

Among those charged are judges accused of granting pack leaders favourable rulings, constabulary officials suspected of tampering with grounds and delivering weapons to prisons, and the erstwhile manager of Ecuador’s situation authority, who is accused of giving peculiar attraction to a almighty cause trafficker.

The corruption lawsuit burst into the unfastened past December with dozens of arrests, conscionable weeks earlier Ecuador experienced an detonation of violence arsenic gangs took scores of situation guards and constabulary officers hostage.

President Daniel Noboa, who took bureau successful November, responded by utilizing exigency powers and sending successful the subject to woody with immoderate 22 gangs the authorities has declared to beryllium violent organisations.

Norero’s widow, Lina Romero, is accused of attempting to bribe judges and prosecutors and, according to Ecuadorian paper El Comercio, constabulary are investigating whether Parraga laundered wealth for Norero.

Landy Parraga was changeable erstwhile 2 equipped men burst into the edifice successful Quevedo and fired respective times astatine her.

The influencer, who amassed much than a cardinal followers connected TikTok, owned a sports covering statement and an importing business, which the authorities fishy whitethorn person been a beforehand for immoderate of Norero’s illicit activities.

Known arsenic “el Patron” (the Boss), Norero had a agelong past of pack unit and cause trafficking erstwhile helium was arrested successful May 2022. In the operation, constabulary seized respective bars of golden bullion and $US7 cardinal successful currency arsenic good arsenic firearms.

Norero had antecedently faked his decease to evade the authorities, being certified arsenic having succumbed to COVID-19 during the pandemic. In precocious 2022, the authorities said Norero had been killed successful prison, though his assemblage – severely burnt successful a occurrence caused by the riot – was ne'er identified.

According to the Spanish newspaper El País, President Noboa’s medication introduced a strategy of taking DNA samples from each prisoners for identification. But the authorities person present reportedly stopped this for fearfulness the samples could beryllium utilized to implicate prisoners successful different crimes.

The Telegraph, London

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