The Federal Court No. 1 of Corrientes, at the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office, expanded the charges against 13 individuals linked to the transnational criminal organization 'Tren de Aragua.' The alleged leader of the organization was already detained in the Ezeiza prison, but the other 12 accused were arrested in a series of raids carried out in homes in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, the Buenos Aires parties of Ezeiza and La Plata, and in the capital of Corrientes. The 13 accused, 11 of Venezuelan nationality, one Colombian, and one Argentine, were already under preventive detention for the crimes of money laundering, and nine of them for terrorism financing. The Argentine News Agency (NA) learned that at the end of December 2025, the Federal Chamber of Corrientes confirmed the charges exclusively for money laundering and terrorism financing. Now, the substitute federal judge Gustavo Del Corazón de Jesús Fresneda applied the figure of an illicit association in its 'criminal organization' modality, which provides for a sentence of 8 to 20 years in prison. From the Fiscales portal, it is highlighted that the main accused is the Venezuelan Guillermo Rafael Boscán Bracho, leader of the so-called 'Banda del Yiyi'—linked to Tren de Aragua—, who had an international arrest warrant and was arrested on October 2, 2023, by INTERPOL of the Federal Police (PFA) in the province of Corrientes. He had entered the country from Colombia on June 22, 2019, under a false identity and, at the time of his arrest, lived in a gated community in the city of Corrientes. His arrest gave rise to an investigation driven by the Federal Prosecutor's Office No. 1 of Corrientes, the Specialized Federal Unit in Organized Crime (UFECO) and the Prosecutor's Office for Economic Crime and Money Laundering (PROCELAC), which allowed the dismantling of the alleged criminal structure with transnational ramifications now being prosecuted. According to the investigation, the organization operated through two cells and would have deployed multiple money laundering maneuvers and financing of the organization's activities abroad. Currently, he is detained under the 'high-risk' prisoner regime in the Federal Penitentiary Complex 1 of Ezeiza. The other 12 prosecuted individuals—identified by their initials—are E.D.U.B., A.J.B.P., D.A.B.C., E.Y.C.S., J.A.L.G., M.A.B.C., A.M.D.C., M.C.D.C, M.D.V.C., M.T.D.C., F.J.D.C. Even so, in recent weeks, representatives of the MPF requested the expansion of the accusations. The Bracho case had an international arrest warrant for a series of crimes and his links to Tren de Aragua.
