Overview
- Valverde, who faced a videoconference indagatoria Tuesday before Judge Jorge Ernesto Rodríguez, denied involvement in the killings and refused to answer the prosecutor’s questions.
- After an Argentine Air Force flight with a technical stop in Asunción, he landed Monday night at El Palomar and was moved under heavy guard to the Marcos Paz federal prison.
- He is accused of aggravated homicide with gender‑based violence, premeditation, alevosía, and ensañamiento, plus related unlawful captivity charges, offenses that carry a potential life sentence under Argentine law.
- Investigators label him the alleged mastermind of the September 2025 torture and murders of Brenda del Castillo, Morena Verdi, and Lara Gutiérrez in Florencio Varela in what they describe as a narco reprisal, with more than a dozen people already identified in the case.
- He was captured in Peru on September 30, 2025, Peru authorized extradition on January 31, and INPE handed him to Interpol early Monday as families rallied for justice and the judge now weighs his procedural status in the coming days.