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03-26-2009, 06:20 PM
National District prosecutor Alejandro Moscoso Segarra confirmed yesterday that an agreement with the New York prosecutor is still in effect and as part of it, relatives of former captain Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo who is on trial in the US for drug trafficking will be leaving the country within a few hours. Although he seemed to be in disagreement with the arguments of the National District Appeals Court Second Penal Chamber judges who described the plea-bargain as "apocryphal", Moscoso Segarra pointed out that "the agreement exists, it was made and it will continue... It will be carried out just as we agreed with the authorities of the Southern District of New York prosecutor's office".
The prosecutor said that in the case of Quirino's wife, Belkis Elizabeth Ubri de Paulino, the best thing for the Justice Department would be to withdraw the charges in order to comply with the agreement. He told Diario Libre reporters that after the Court of Appeals annulled the process, "the case starts from zero, and they put the ball in our court and we are going to decide how we hit it."
Moscoso Segarra confirmed that there had been a misinterpretation on the part of the second grade Tribunal since the agreement had been between prosecutor and prosecutor. "We informed the court of the importance of the agreement but it wasn't as if they were going to appreciate that, and I invite them to read Article 7 of the Vienna Convention," he said. Nevertheless, he pointed out that Quirino's relatives would be leaving the country in the next few hours, and the extraditions will continue to be issued as needed.
The authorities are in the process of lifting travel impediments, obtaining tickets and other formalities prior to the trip. At the same time, he said that if the negotiations are not completed, future judicial cooperation between the Dominican Republic and the United States could be prejudiced. On the question of the extradition request for Ernesto Bienvenido Guevara, he said that this was the responsibility of the Attorney General of the Republic, Radhames Jimenez Pena.
Relatives who are due to leave inlcude Belkis Elizabeth Ubri Medrano, Quirilio Paulino Castillo, Zaira Castillo Ramirez, Luis Marmolejos, Felicita Medrano, Elba Feliz Matos, Ricardo Encarnacion Castillo, Anderson Paulino and Diomaris Marmolejos.
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The prosecutor said that in the case of Quirino's wife, Belkis Elizabeth Ubri de Paulino, the best thing for the Justice Department would be to withdraw the charges in order to comply with the agreement. He told Diario Libre reporters that after the Court of Appeals annulled the process, "the case starts from zero, and they put the ball in our court and we are going to decide how we hit it."
Moscoso Segarra confirmed that there had been a misinterpretation on the part of the second grade Tribunal since the agreement had been between prosecutor and prosecutor. "We informed the court of the importance of the agreement but it wasn't as if they were going to appreciate that, and I invite them to read Article 7 of the Vienna Convention," he said. Nevertheless, he pointed out that Quirino's relatives would be leaving the country in the next few hours, and the extraditions will continue to be issued as needed.
The authorities are in the process of lifting travel impediments, obtaining tickets and other formalities prior to the trip. At the same time, he said that if the negotiations are not completed, future judicial cooperation between the Dominican Republic and the United States could be prejudiced. On the question of the extradition request for Ernesto Bienvenido Guevara, he said that this was the responsibility of the Attorney General of the Republic, Radhames Jimenez Pena.
Relatives who are due to leave inlcude Belkis Elizabeth Ubri Medrano, Quirilio Paulino Castillo, Zaira Castillo Ramirez, Luis Marmolejos, Felicita Medrano, Elba Feliz Matos, Ricardo Encarnacion Castillo, Anderson Paulino and Diomaris Marmolejos.
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