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01-28-2009, 06:10 PM
General Prosecutor Radhames Jimenez Pena said that 21 assets confiscated from former army colonel Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo and transferred to the Dominican government after deals between the DR and the US judiciary will be assigned to initiatives aimed at improving judicial prosecution. General Prosecution Office Resolution 01 says the resources generated by the assets would also be used to develop the new jail model currently being implemented by state prosecutors. Jimenez made the announcement to clarify who would be getting the assets.
In an interview with Huchi Lora for his afternoon CDN talk show, Mabel Feliz Baez of the National Drugs Council said that this is the first time that assets have been confiscated from a known drug dealer. She said that the confiscations coincide with the fact that this case was heard in New York and not by a Dominican court. In other cases, while drug dealers have been sent to jail, their assets have had to be returned when in all but one known case they have secured favorable sentences from the Dominican judiciary. She confirmed that even notorious convicted drug dealer Florian Feliz has not had his assets confiscated.
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In an interview with Huchi Lora for his afternoon CDN talk show, Mabel Feliz Baez of the National Drugs Council said that this is the first time that assets have been confiscated from a known drug dealer. She said that the confiscations coincide with the fact that this case was heard in New York and not by a Dominican court. In other cases, while drug dealers have been sent to jail, their assets have had to be returned when in all but one known case they have secured favorable sentences from the Dominican judiciary. She confirmed that even notorious convicted drug dealer Florian Feliz has not had his assets confiscated.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#14)