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Police are investigating the shooting of 23-year-old Landy Párraga amid media speculation the hit was ordered by the widow of a drug lord with whom she is believed to have had an affair.

Párraga, who took fifth place in the 2022 edition of Miss Ecuador, is said to have been the lover of Leandro Norero, a married drug trafficker who was killed in a prison riot 18 months ago.

“If my wife comes across anything about her, I’m screwed,” Norero had said of Párraga to an alleged criminal associate, Helive Ángulo.

The influencer, who amassed more than a million followers on TikTok, owned a sports clothing label and a goods-importing business, which the authorities suspect may have been a front for some of Norero’s illicit activities.

Norero had previously faked his death to evade the authorities, being certified as having succumbed to Covid-19 during the pandemic

In late 2022, the authorities said Norero had been killed in prison, although his body – badly burnt in a fire caused by the riot – was never identified.

But the authorities have now reportedly stopped this for fear the samples could be used to implicate prisoners in other crimes.