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08-12-2008, 06:20 PM
Senator Wilton Guerrero (PLD-Peravia) has been voicing his concerns about alleged complicity between drug traffickers and officials for four years and until now rarely has anyone listened. Guerrero says that accompanied by civic society members of his province, he met with officials on several occasions but nothing was ever done. As a result of last week's drug-massacre of seven men, officials are now investigating ties between drug dealers and local authorities. The Senator also claims there are 375 drug points in Bani and one is located only a few meters away from the Police station. Guerrero said that Bani Police chief General Hilario Gonzalez should be investigated for his supposed drug ties as well as former district prosecutor Victor Cordero and three other members of the Public Ministry. Cordero has responded to the accusations by saying he will sue Guerrero for defamation. Guerrero showed the media proof of the meetings he had had with the PLD party and government officers since 2004, where he urges officials to investigate drug dealing in his province. As reported in Hoy, he met four times with the prosecutor general, twice with the legal advisor to the Presidency and deposited copies of his claims in the secretary general and legal matters secretariats of the ruling PLD party. At the end of 2005, he said he met with then chief of the National Police, Major General Manuel de Jesus Perez Sanchez to explain the situation.
He even says that some of the men massacred last week had been seen riding around town in police vehicles, eating dinner and drinking whisky with police officers. During his press conference, Guerrero says that in the past four years he took these names, and proof, to on four separate times to Dominican Attorney General Radhames Jimenez Pena, who took no action in response nor investigated his claims. According to Guerrero, police in Bani are connected to a band of thieves in Azua known for "stealing" drug shipments.
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He even says that some of the men massacred last week had been seen riding around town in police vehicles, eating dinner and drinking whisky with police officers. During his press conference, Guerrero says that in the past four years he took these names, and proof, to on four separate times to Dominican Attorney General Radhames Jimenez Pena, who took no action in response nor investigated his claims. According to Guerrero, police in Bani are connected to a band of thieves in Azua known for "stealing" drug shipments.
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