Triple crime
| Native name | Triple crimen |
|---|---|
| Date | August 13, 2008 |
| Location | General Rodríguez, Argentina |
| Type | Murder |
| Organised by | "La Morsa" (identity unknown) |
| Deaths | Sebastián Forza Damián Ferrón Leopoldo Bina |
| Suspect(s) |
Aníbal Fernández José Luis Salerno |
| Convicted |
Esteban Pérez Corradi Cristian Lanatta Martín Lanatta Víctor Schilacci Marcelo Schilacci |
The Triple crime (Spanish: Triple crimen) took place in General Rodríguez, Argentina, on August 13, 2008. It involves the torture and deaths of three pharmaceutical businessmen, Sebastián Forza, Damián Ferrón, and Leopoldo Bina, who had been reported missing on August 7, 2008 and were found dead the following August 13.
Three pharmaceutical businessmen, Sebastián Forza, Damián Ferrón, and Leopoldo Bina, had been reported missing on August 7, 2008. They met at a supermarket in Sarandí, Buenos Aires and were found dead in General Rodríguez the following August 13. They had been shot and partially buried, and their corpses showed evidence of recent torture.
Forza's widow said the deaths were a mafia message for other people, and that her husband had paid $250,000 for protection to a man known as "La Morsa" (Spanish: The Walrus). This is the pseudonym of a man who could not be identified, whom, she claimed, she had heard was a man with a moustache. She suspected he might be Esteban Pérez Corradi, a creditor of Forza's, because her late husband feared him.
The investigations in the following days revealed that the three men had ties with narcotics trafficking cartels. The drugstore of José Luis Salerno, a former associate of Ferrón's, was closed. Forza and Ferrón had a lab in Ingeniero Maschwitz that manufactured illegal drugs.
The import of ephedrine was restricted a month later, limiting it only to the labs that prepare legal drugs that contain it. It was also discovered that Forza financed the political campaign of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner during the 2007 general elections.
Cristian Lanatta, Martín Lanatta, Víctor Schilacci, and Marcelo Schilacci were detained and sentenced for the killings. Ibar Pérez Corradi remained at large for a longer time.
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