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‘Why won’t you give me one of those lottery jobs?’: Judge’s ‘sensitive’ remark to sister of alias Diablo

From La Nación · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

At a glance

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  • The Judicial Investigation Police recorded a conversation involving Pococí criminal judge Valverde López and the sister of suspected drug trafficker Alejandro Arias Monge, alias Diablo.
  • According to the police, the judge allegedly asked her to give him a position selling lottery tickets.
  • Authorities said Diablo’s organization had entered the illegal lottery trade.

A recorded conversation has placed a Pococí criminal judge at the center of an allegation involving a suspected drug trafficker’s family. The Judicial Investigation Police, known by its Spanish acronym OIJ, says the judge appeared to hint that the trafficker’s sister should give him a lottery-sales position.

The judge, identified by the surnames Valverde López, worked at the Pococí courts. The reported exchange is presented in the headline as a supposedly “sensitive” remark: “Why won’t you give me one of those lottery jobs?”

The woman is the sister of Alejandro Arias Monge, known as Diablo and described as a suspected drug trafficker. The OIJ says Diablo’s organization had moved into the illegal sale of lottery tickets, adding a criminal-business context to the recorded conversation.

Why won’t you give me one of those lottery jobs?

· Judge Valverde LópezThe headline attributes the remark to a conversation that the OIJ reportedly recorded with the sister of suspected drug trafficker Alejandro Arias Monge, alias Diablo.
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Originally published by La Nación in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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