The Department of Prisons has released Colombian German Eduardo Duque Garcia, alleged partner of Arturo del Tiempo, after judge Nathali Nova Soto authorized his release on RD$5 million bail. Duque Garcia was the only person under arrest in the case against Arturo del Tiempo. Del Tiempo was arrested in Spain and accused of smuggling 1,200 kilos of cocaine, confiscated in Valencia on 2 March 2010. An earlier shipment discovered in the DR in November had gone unpenalized. Del Tiempo is the promoter of the Torre Atiemar, a luxury high-rise apartment building, for whose construction President Leonel Fernandez himself broke ground, and the chief of the Police Major General Rafael Guzman admitted that his father is an owner of an apartment.
District Prosecutor Alejandro Moscoso Segarra said that his department appealed the decision.

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