Daniel Noboa: The drug trafficker Pipo accuses the president of Ecuador of ordering the murder of Fernando Villavicencio in 2023

Chavarría made these statements in the offices of the Zaragoza Prosecutor’s Office (Spain), in an appearance requested by the Ecuadorian Prosecutor’s Office, which the drug trafficker attended accompanied by his lawyer and guarded by three Spanish police officers and four members of the special police forces.

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According to sources from Pipo’s defense, who is waiting in the prison of Zuera the resolution of the extradition process initiated by Ecuadorthe detainee answered the questions of the prosecutor of the International Cooperation Unit and his lawyer, but refused to answer the three questions sent by the public ministry of the Andean country.

The detainee stated that a person close to John ReimbergMinister of the Interior of his country, had told him that the crime was ordered by the current Ecuadorian president, Daniel Noboadue to the fear that Villavicencio would win the elections.

According to the drug trafficker, imprisoned in Spainclaimed from Ecuador as the leader of one of the most dangerous drug trafficking groups in South America and implicated in more than four hundred murders, the intention of both Noboa and Reimberg is “cheat” to the Spanish authorities so that they agree to extradite him to Ecuador or the United States.

He considered that his extradition to Ecuador would mean his death and that if he were finally to USAwhich has initiated a process to claim him for drug trafficking, the intention of his authorities is for him to testify against the former president Rafael Correawhom he has denied knowing.

Chavarría also said that Reimberg threatened him through an emissary when he was detained in Málaga and that in the room where he received the threats there were security cameras that could be consulted.

He added that the intention of the minister and Noboa is “take it out of circulation“, seeing him as a competitor in the drug trafficking market, where, he said, the president “is playing an important role”.

He added that the only reason why he has agreed to testify today is because he has full confidence in the Spanish authorities and that they will not allow the recording of his statement today at the Prosecutor’s Office to disappear, where he accuses Noboa of the murder of Villavicencio.

Recently, the Ecuadorian Prosecutor’s Office charged Stocking cap as an alleged participant in the planning of the murder, which, according to the Public Ministryhas as its alleged intellectual authors a group of businessmen linked to corruption schemes that Villavicencio and the former Correísta minister were pursuing. Jose Serrano.

The presidential candidate, known for his denunciations of corruption cases against the Correa Government and for unmasking criminal organizations, was shot dead on August 9, 2023 at the exit of a rally in the north of Quito by a group of seven Colombian hitmen.

So far there are only five convicted as perpetrators of the murder, since most were murdered in prison before they testified before the authorities.

Pipo was arrested in November 2025 at the Malaga airport, the same day that a key referendum for Noboa was being held in Ecuador.

The detainee had lived until that moment between Dubai and the Sunshine Coastfrom where he managed his organization dedicated to drug trafficking, illegal gold mining and extortion, hidden behind seven different identities and after falsifying his death in Ecuador during the pandemic and undergoing several cosmetic operations on his face to try to make his identification difficult.