NewsWhore
01-06-2009, 01:11 PM
The State General Prosecutor's Office has announced that farms once owned by former military captain Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo would be turned into jails. Two jails will be built on the properties formerly owned by the extradited drug trafficker in the province of San Juan de la Maguana, covering a total area of 3,800 tareas. No details on the size of the facilities or whether they would be high, medium or low-security prisons. Though Quirino was extradited to the US for illegally trafficking drugs, the US and Dominican governments agreed that the DR government would receive all properties and assets formerly owned by Paulino Castillo. Not all is bad news for the Paulino family though. Diario Libre reported last week that the Dominican state will return RD$200 million in assets and all of Paulino's properties in Elias Pina to the family. Eighteen of Quirino's relatives will also be allowed to leave the DR to live in the US, as part of a plea deal made by Quirino. The family begins its departure on 15 January.
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