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Hello,

I was wondering if any linguists or Spanish native speakers could help me understand a sentence in a book I'm reading, "Vaya, para no pasar nunca nada, se concentra la creatividad criminal", from the passage below:

"--Sí, supongo que por eso lo habrán enviado a usted. El cadáver se encontró atado por los pies con un cíngulo , que es un tipo de cinturón que llevan los nazarenos en la Semana Santa, a la viga más alta de la cúpula de la basílica de la Macarena .

--Vaya, para no pasar nunca nada, se concentra la creatividad criminal...

--Sí, y eso no es todo"

It's from the book El asesino de la regañá by Julio Muñoz Gijón. In this part a police officer is telling a detective who is investigating a strange murder what he knows about the circumstances of the victim's death. He explains the strange circumstances of the murder to the detective and then the detective replies with this phrase. I get the jist that the detective is making a somewhat dry remark in response to how elaborate and strange the murder is, and I understand the literal meaning of the words. But a literal translation into English makes no sense here, so I was wondering if he is maybe using an idiom or a saying that I am not familiar with. "para no pasar nunca nada" in particular is quite difficult to understand.

If anybody could share their understanding of that phrase, I would be hugely grateful.

Thanks so much.