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05-06-2008, 05:40 PM
Saturday's El Caribe reports that the District Attorney established bail of RD$5 million for pilot Luis Miguel Ovalles Tejeda, but decided that the plane's owner, Rafael Alberto Luciano Corominas and plane passenger Juan Jose Martin Gomez should be registered only as witnesses in the case. District Attorney Perfecto Acosta said that Ovalles Tejeda has taken full responsibility for attempting to covertly introduce US$569,000 in cash into the DR on board a private plane that flew in from Aguadilla in Puerto Rico without registering a flight plan. Acosta said they had three months to investigate the case, but in the meantime decided that only Ovalles needed to post bail of RD$5 million.
Nuria Piera denounced on her radio talk show that Ovalles has been tied to drug operations in the past. An Internet link shows a pilot named Ovalles was detained at Miami International Airport on 21 March 2001, in the company of pilot Rafael De la Cruz after a drug dog alert, with US$167,000 in currency seized. Pilot de la Cruz was subsequently caught attempting to smuggle 455 kilograms of cocaine from the DR to Fort Lauderdale on a Caribair flight on 7 August 2002.
District Attorney Acosta explained that in the US$569,000 case, they decided to deal with it as strictly money contraband.
Rafael Alberto Luciano Corominas is the son of Supreme Court of Justice judge Rafael Luciano Pichardo.
Meanwhile, the Central Electoral Board suspended Luciano Corominas from his work at the Civil Registry Office in Boca Chica, until the investigation concludes.
See http://www.law.mercer.edu/academics/coursepages/lw2final/Case2.pdf
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Nuria Piera denounced on her radio talk show that Ovalles has been tied to drug operations in the past. An Internet link shows a pilot named Ovalles was detained at Miami International Airport on 21 March 2001, in the company of pilot Rafael De la Cruz after a drug dog alert, with US$167,000 in currency seized. Pilot de la Cruz was subsequently caught attempting to smuggle 455 kilograms of cocaine from the DR to Fort Lauderdale on a Caribair flight on 7 August 2002.
District Attorney Acosta explained that in the US$569,000 case, they decided to deal with it as strictly money contraband.
Rafael Alberto Luciano Corominas is the son of Supreme Court of Justice judge Rafael Luciano Pichardo.
Meanwhile, the Central Electoral Board suspended Luciano Corominas from his work at the Civil Registry Office in Boca Chica, until the investigation concludes.
See http://www.law.mercer.edu/academics/coursepages/lw2final/Case2.pdf
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#11)