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01-09-2009, 03:10 PM
National District prosecutor Alejandro Moscoso Segarra has told Listin Diario journalists that another agreement will soon be reached with the United States judicial authorities for the seizure of assets from people implicated in the drug trafficking network that was supposedly headed by Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo (Quirino).
"We are awaiting this agreement, the next phase. Right now there is an agreement aimed at seizing these assets," said the prosecutor during the Listin breakfast meeting.
He said that about US$16 million worth of assets had been seized in the Quirino case, not the US$14 million that was mentioned initially, because the value of the assets was greater than initially thought.
Among those incriminated in the file are businessman Ramon Perez Ferreras, Juan Cruz Crisostomo, Richard Pena Mejia, money changer Jose Abel Burdiez, Faustino Perozo, Federico Miranda Hernandez, Jose Ortega de Leon, Marcos Taveras Jimenez, Luis Eduardo Cordero Rodriguez, Bladimir Garcia Jimenez, Fatima Henriquez Diaz, twin brothers Luis David and Jean Paul Ulloa and Juan Samuel Rodriguez Cordero, Eleuterio Guante and Colonel Nin Terrero.
Many of these people have made deals with the New York Southern District Federal Court prosecutors and received lighter sentences or were released in exchange for the information provided.
Moscoso Segarra said that although former Army captain Paulino Castillo was not the chief of the drug trafficking network that operated in the country for several years, he was still an important part of it. Moscoso said that Paulino Castillo was just a part of the cartel, but not the person who actually gave the orders.
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"We are awaiting this agreement, the next phase. Right now there is an agreement aimed at seizing these assets," said the prosecutor during the Listin breakfast meeting.
He said that about US$16 million worth of assets had been seized in the Quirino case, not the US$14 million that was mentioned initially, because the value of the assets was greater than initially thought.
Among those incriminated in the file are businessman Ramon Perez Ferreras, Juan Cruz Crisostomo, Richard Pena Mejia, money changer Jose Abel Burdiez, Faustino Perozo, Federico Miranda Hernandez, Jose Ortega de Leon, Marcos Taveras Jimenez, Luis Eduardo Cordero Rodriguez, Bladimir Garcia Jimenez, Fatima Henriquez Diaz, twin brothers Luis David and Jean Paul Ulloa and Juan Samuel Rodriguez Cordero, Eleuterio Guante and Colonel Nin Terrero.
Many of these people have made deals with the New York Southern District Federal Court prosecutors and received lighter sentences or were released in exchange for the information provided.
Moscoso Segarra said that although former Army captain Paulino Castillo was not the chief of the drug trafficking network that operated in the country for several years, he was still an important part of it. Moscoso said that Paulino Castillo was just a part of the cartel, but not the person who actually gave the orders.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#10)