Arrest of Marset in Santa Cruz: barefoot, handcuffed and offered one million dollars
Unseen footage shows the detention of Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastián Marset in Bolivia on 13 March. He was captured in a large-scale operation in the Las Palmas neighbourhood of Santa Cruz de la Sierra.
Unseen footage of Marset's capture in Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Ultimahora.com released unseen footage of the arrest of Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastián Marset, carried out on 13 March in the exclusive Las Palmas neighbourhood of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.
In one of the videos, Marset is seen being transferred to the rear of a police vehicle: shirtless, with his hands handcuffed behind his back and the tattoos covering his chest visible. In another recording, already dressed in a grey shirt and with his face covered, he enters the presidential hangar of Viru Viru airport barefoot.
According to Bolivian media outlet Visión 360, the arrest was the result of a large-scale joint operation deployed in Las Palmas, which mobilised around a hundred officers from elite tactical units. Marset had managed to evade international justice for years.
"I've already lost," the Uruguayan said at the moment the uniformed officers entered his bedroom, according to an account by Erick Correa, one of the police officers who participated in the operation. Correa is currently under investigation for alleged irregularities and theft of items from the residence.
According to the same testimony, Marset requested a mobile phone to make a bitcoin transfer and offered to deposit one million dollars into the account of one of the agents. The proposal was rejected. In response, the detainee said: "What would we have gained if we had handed him over to the DEA?", according to Correa's statement.
On the same day of his detention, Marset was transferred to the United States. A police chief who led the operation was subsequently detained in Bolivia, whilst Tatiana Marset was declared in absentia, although her defence argues that she is hospitalised.
Source: Google News BO — Crime