Two brothers they were condemned yesterday Wednesday to serve 25 years and six months in prison each for planning the murder of a Paraguayan prosecutor specializing in the fight against drug trafficking, Colombian prosecutors announced.

A judge in Cartagena (north) sentenced Andres and Ramon Perez Oyos “for their participation in planning, financing and supplying” a group of executioners who killed the prosecutor, according to a document distributed to the media by the prosecution.

Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pesci was murdered on May 10, 2022, in front of his pregnant wife, Colombian journalist Claudia Aguilera, on the Colombian island of Varu, where they were spending their honeymoon, a short distance from the tourist port of Cartagena, off the coast of Colombia in the Caribbean.

The moral authors they paid the executors $340,000, according to the judgment against them.

The prosecutor was specialized in cases of drug trafficking, organized crime, money laundering and terrorist financing.

In June, Colombian justice sentenced four other people to serve 23 years and six months in prison for the same case.

Marcello Pesci had become known for his involvement in research that landed famous Brazilian soccer player Ronaldinho in prison for six months (March-August 2020), for entering Paraguay with forged documents.