Chetumal, Q.R. — Smuggling and trafficking of goods is the main line of investigation into the abduction of eight people. On Monday, the State Attorney General (FGE) shared their line of investigation in what they said was an abduction by a criminal group led by a Korean man.
Last week, a total of eight people from the state of Nayarit disappeared from a Chetumal hotel, reported FGE head Raciel López Salazar during the Security Cabinet press conference.
According to Salazar, the now-missing men arrived in Quintana Roo to work for a private company.
“They were actually hired to work in a clandestine cigar factory located behind a hotel, in a very strategic area. We are working to find these individuals and are investigating to clarify the facts.”
Salazar said “the hotel involved is owned by a Korean national who is allegedly associated with two other individuals involved in smuggling, so that is the line of investigation being pursued by the Prosecutor’s Office.”
He reported that wo men, a father and son, were found dead. Salazar said they were also involved in smuggling and were part of a criminal group and lived in the same hotel where the other eight disappeared.
“They lived in the hotel and had ties to the Korean,” Salazar stated Monday.
According to reports, the eight men were abducted from the Luna Caribe Hotel in Chetumal September 9 when an armed group broke in and forcibly removed them in broad daylight.
On September 12, the Nayarit Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that eight people had disappeared in Chetumal after last contact with their families on September 3. The eight men range in ages from 20 to 45 and are all from the state of Nayarit.
