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 News from Around the Americas | January 2007 
Former Spy Runs Brothels
 El Universal
| | Former intelligence operative from Argentina runs prostitution network in Mexico, paper says. |
Cancún - A Mexico City newspaper reported Thursday that Raúl Luis Martins Coggiola, who worked as an intelligence operative for Argentina´s former military regime, controls a prostitution network in the Caribbean resort cities of Cancún and Playa del Carmen.
The daily Reforma cited statements made by former Martins attorney Claudio Lifschitz in Buenos Aires that linked the former spy with a sexual services network for businessmen, politicians and drug traffickers along the Caribbean coast.
Although in recent months the case appeared in the local press with the focus on the alleged protection that the Argentine received from former Quintana Roo Gov. Joaquín Hendricks, the newspaper reported that current Gov. Félix González continues protecting Martins.
The Argentine runs two nightspots, The One in Cancún and Maxims in Playa del Carmen, the latter of which has been closed since the end of December, EFE determined.
Reforma also reported, citing a former lawyer, that Martins spied for 13 years on opponents of the Argentine dictatorship while employed by the SIDE intelligence agency.
The newspaper detailed that Martins fled the Argentine judiciary, coming to Mexico in 2002. He had controlled several prostitution networks in Buenos Aires before heading north.
Martins´ immigration authorization has reportedly expired and he maintains a close relationship with the head of the Attorney General´s Office in Cancún, Pedro Ramírez, and with businessman Isaac Hamui.
Hamui is the owner of the Mahauhal cruise ship dock and the Cancún Convention Center.
Lifschitz also said that if the Mexican justice system guarantees his security, he could come to Mexico to verify his statements. |
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