Alfredo Yabrán

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Alfredo Enrique Nallib Yabrán (born November 1, 1944 in Larroque ; died May 20, 1998 at the Estancia San Ignacio near Gualeguaychú , both places in Argentina 's Entre Ríos province ) was an Argentinian entrepreneur . He became known through his dispute with Argentina's Minister of Economic Affairs, Domingo Cavallo, and his involvement in the murder of reporter José Luis Cabezas .

Life

Career advancement

Born in 1944 in the eastern Argentine province of Entre Ríos, Alfredo Yabrán moved to the Argentine capital Buenos Aires in the early 1960s . There he worked as an entrepreneur in the security and banking industries . As early as the 1970s he was also one of the main shareholders of the postal company Organización Coordinadora Argentina SA , which earned him the nickname "El Cartero" ( Spanish for "The Postman "). Towards the end of President Raúl Alfonsín's term of office around 1989, he started working for the Argentine airport security service.

Dispute with Domingo Cavallo

In a speech to the Argentine Congress , the then Peronist Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo (PJ) accused Yabrán of being “a kind of mafioso ” and of enjoying the protection of politicians and lawyers in this regard. The core of the allegations was that Yabrán was using his legal network of transport and security companies to camouflage or operate his illegal drug and arms trafficking or to carry out money laundering .

Yabrán himself stated that he owns only a few companies of minor importance, but was accused by Cavallo of running more and larger companies through straw men , including the postal company Oca and the logistics company Villalonga Furlong . These operations were then sold to the Holding Grupo Exxel for US $ 605 million . Exxel denies that the seller was Yabrán.

Cabezas murder and suicide

Yabrán did not appear in public and only communicated through press spokesman , so that despite his fame in the media, no photos of him were circulated. It was not until February 1996 that the reporter José Luis Cabezas, who worked in disguise for the magazine Noticias , managed to photograph the entrepreneur on the beach at Pinamar in the province of Buenos Aires . On March 3, 1996, the photos were published in Noticias ; on January 15, 1997, when Cabezas was again in Pinamar, he was kidnapped and shot.

After Cabezas' death, people from Yabrán's personal environment were suspected of being involved in the murder. As a result, Yabrán felt compelled to appear in public for the first time and to deny having instigated the murder out of anger over the exposure by Cabezas. On May 15, 1998, an arrest warrant was issued for Yabrán. He then went into hiding, until five days later he was found on his estate near Gualeguaychú. Cornered by the police , he committed suicide with a shot from his shotgun .

After Yabrán's death

family

As of January 2009, the survivors of Yabráns were living in seclusion in Uruguay's capital Montevideo and should have total assets of around US $ 1 billion. There the family runs an investment company in the World Trade Center Montevideo .

Yabrán in popular culture

The Yabrán case found its way into popular culture in Argentina. Since his death, the modern legend has been circulating in Argentina that he only staged his suicide to avoid arrest and to go into hiding. T-shirts sold in Argentina had the slogan "Yabrán it's alive" ( sic ; incorrect English for "Yabrán [es] is alive"). In 2008 the television series Vidas Robadas (Spanish for "Stolen Lives") started with clear parallels to this legend.

This is based on the false assumption that the barrel and arm length made the shotgun unusable for the fatal headshot , and on the fact that Yabrán's face was destroyed beyond recognition by the shot. There is no sound evidence of the alleged escape or murder of Yabrán; a transfer attributed to Yabrán in the US in 2002 is viewed by investigative authorities as a transfer fraud with forged signature .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d ¿Quién era Yabrán? , Taringa! , 2011
  2. ↑ Raul Kollmann: La única certeza es la muerte . Página / 12 , May 21, 1998
  3. ↑ Cómo viven los Yabrán a 12 años del crimen de Cabezas. Perfil on January 24, 2009
  4. ↑ Yabrán: ¿Está vivo o muerto? , Taringa !, year 2008
  5. ↑ El fantasma Yabrán . Detailed overview of the related conspiracy theories on Página / 12 , May 16, 1999
personal data
SURNAME Yabrán, Alfredo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nallib Yabrán, Alfredo Enrique
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Larroque
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1998
Place of death at Gualeguaychú