The Peruvian government has approved the extradition to Argentina of its Tony Janzen Valverde Victoriano, the alleged mastermind of a triple femicide in Greater Buenos Aires last September.
The news, confirmed by prosecutors in the case on Tuesday, means that Valverde, nicknamed ‘Pequeño J’ will face trial in Argentina.
The 20-year-old has been detained in a Lima jail since last October and will be "tried for the crime of first-degree murder," prosecutors indicated in a statement.
"The wanted man is to answer for three crimes against three women. The crime was apparently committed with the complicity of two or more persons, via extreme cruelty, malice and gender violence," read the communiqué.
Argentina’s Prosecutor’s Office said that Valverde will be extradited in the next few days to Argentina.
The move was formalised via Resolución Suprema Nº 041-2026-JUS, signed by Peruvian President José Enrique Jerí Oré and published last January 30 in Lima.
Valverde has been singled out as the alleged mastermind of the murders of Morena Verdi and Brenda del Castillo, cousins both aged 20, and 15-year-old Lara Gutiérrez, in a case prosecutors have linked to drug-trafficking.
The brutal murders of the trio shocked Argentina, with thousands of people demonstrating on the streets to demand justice.
The file accuses Valverde of "first-degree murder with the premeditated presence of two or more persons with extreme cruelty, malice and gender violence reiterated on three occasions."
The corpses of the three women were buried in the backyard of a house in the southern outskirts of Buenos Aires and found on September 24, five days after their disappearance.
The young women were tortured and butchered during a live transmission carried via social media for a closed group of 45 users, in what the authorities believe was a punishment for a presumed theft of drugs.
Valverde is suspected of heading a ring of drug-traffickers in the Zavaleta neighbourhood in southern Greater Buenos Aires. He was arrested on September 30, 2025, in the district of Pucusana in southern Lima.
That same day, a presumed Argentine accomplice, 28-year-old Matías Ozorio was arrested in northern Lima and deported to his native country.
A further seven people were also detained in Argentina in connection with the case.
– TIMES/NA/AFP
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