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11-11-2008, 03:10 PM
Caribair president Rafael Rosado has distanced his company from any drug trafficking activities. As reported in Listin Diario on Sunday, 9 November, Rosado said that pilot Antonio Maria Melo, who he claimed was a Police lieutenant, is not a fugitive from justice as reported earlier. He said that the pilot had been booked to fly Navy officer Edward Mayobanex Rodriguez Montero to the Turks & Caicos, not the Bahamas as also erroneously reported. Rodriguez Montero is accused of the murder of seven Colombians in a drug-related killing in Paya, Bani last August. Rodriguez was sent to preventive jail for 18 months while the case against him is heard in court.
He said that the pilot did not have information on the passengers' identity. He said that Rodriguez Montero was arrested in the parking lot at Puerto Plata airport and did not get to check in for the flight. Rosado said that as soon as he was notified of the case, he visited the chief of the Police Major General Rafael Guillermo Guzman Fermin and adjunct prosecutors Francisco Polanco and Fabian Melo to offer his cooperation. Rosado said that the flight was contracted at La Isabela Airport (AILI) in Santo Domingo province, headquarters of the airline, by a person named as Santos, who paid for the transportation of three Spanish citizens. He said that the names and identities provided later turned out to be false.
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He said that the pilot did not have information on the passengers' identity. He said that Rodriguez Montero was arrested in the parking lot at Puerto Plata airport and did not get to check in for the flight. Rosado said that as soon as he was notified of the case, he visited the chief of the Police Major General Rafael Guillermo Guzman Fermin and adjunct prosecutors Francisco Polanco and Fabian Melo to offer his cooperation. Rosado said that the flight was contracted at La Isabela Airport (AILI) in Santo Domingo province, headquarters of the airline, by a person named as Santos, who paid for the transportation of three Spanish citizens. He said that the names and identities provided later turned out to be false.
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