Quirino's wife gets off

[NewsWhore]

It became evident that the plea bargain that former Army Captain Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo worked out with the federal authorities in the United States included the dropping of charges against his wife Belkis Eliabeth Ubri in the Dominican courts. Yesterday, the Appeals Court for the National District withdrew all charges of money laundering that were pending against Ubri. While not pronouncing sentence, which was put off until 24 March, magistrate Carmen Alardo, prosecutor for the Appeals Court, did say that the decision was in response to the arrangement between the National District authorities and the Southern District Court of New York. The agreement calls for withdrawal of the money laundering charges. She said that "...as a result, the Justice Department will no longer seek to press charges since there are no longer any charges pending against the accused." The magistrate did ask for a new trial for Pedro Julio Goico (Pepe) and Ernesto Bienvenido Guevara Diaz (Maconi) who had been released by the Third Collegiate Tribunal of the National District. Lawyer Feliz Damian Olivares, Ubri's defense attorney, called the court's decision "very correct, in view of the plea bargain..."

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