NewsWhore
09-15-2009, 05:50 PM
The seizure of US$4.6 million in cash from a Mercedes Benz SUV in a luxury apartment building in Santo Domingo last week is making waves. District Prosecutor Alejandro Moscoso Segarra says that Jose D. Figueroa Agosto, the man identified as the owner of the cash, must have been protected by high-ranking Dominicans. He said that otherwise there was no way of explaining how a fugitive from a Puerto Rican jail could have various aliases and be able to circulate freely in the country, as reported in Hoy.
Figueroa Agosto escaped from the Puerto Rican jail in 1999. In 2007, Puerto Rican authorities requested the assistance of the FBI after Interpol reports indicated he was living in the DR under a different identity.
There is also speculation about Sobeida Feliz, who is in custody as Figueroa's accomplice, and who purchased two apartments paying RD$43 million in cash. There are also questions about the identity of the person who declared Figueroa at the civil registry, allowing him to obtain a DR birth certificate.
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Figueroa Agosto escaped from the Puerto Rican jail in 1999. In 2007, Puerto Rican authorities requested the assistance of the FBI after Interpol reports indicated he was living in the DR under a different identity.
There is also speculation about Sobeida Feliz, who is in custody as Figueroa's accomplice, and who purchased two apartments paying RD$43 million in cash. There are also questions about the identity of the person who declared Figueroa at the civil registry, allowing him to obtain a DR birth certificate.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#11)