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09-16-2009, 05:40 PM
Presidential drug trafficking advisor, lawyer Marino Vinicio (Vincho) Castillo says that the US should request more civilians and military figures in extradition as a way of helping Dominicans to fight drug trafficking. He said that the only thing the drug dealers feared was extradition.
"I maintain that the US needs to improve its extradition policies to step up the war against drugs. They need to request more extraditions of civilians and military personnel," he said, as reported in Hoy.
He pointed to the case of the leading Cali capos, now in jail in the US after being requested in extradition.
He said he was aware of the extradition request for the two Navy officers who are being sought by the Puerto Rican judicial authorities, but that it was apparent there were difficulties that were delaying the process.
A source has told Listin Diario that former Navy lieutenant Carlos Rosso Pena, who was fired in August 2008 for his ties to drug trafficking, and Navy Captain Miguel Antonio Suarez Silfa have been requested in extradition. The two are linked to the murder of seven Colombians in Paya. Rosso's whereabouts are unknown.
Suarez Silfa has voluntarily handed himself in to the US authorities in Puerto Rico. He is accused of picking up and transporting cocaine for delivery to Puerto Rico on a Dominican Navy coastguard boat. Suarez Silfa served as commander of the GC-107, the Luperon station, second in command of the Capella, in charge of the Navy post in Bayahibe, commander of Neyba, and the Las Americas International Airport VIP room. His father is a rear admiral in the Navy, according to Listin Diario.
Rosso was an officer assigned to the Intelligence Department of the Navy (M2), the Navy Military Police, the Armed Forces Intelligence Division (J2), as well as patroller on the Juan Alejandro Acosta ship.
Meanwhile, Armed Forces Chief Major General Pedro Rafael Pena Antonio said that more than 700 members of the Armed Forces have been fired for acts that link them to drug trafficking.
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"I maintain that the US needs to improve its extradition policies to step up the war against drugs. They need to request more extraditions of civilians and military personnel," he said, as reported in Hoy.
He pointed to the case of the leading Cali capos, now in jail in the US after being requested in extradition.
He said he was aware of the extradition request for the two Navy officers who are being sought by the Puerto Rican judicial authorities, but that it was apparent there were difficulties that were delaying the process.
A source has told Listin Diario that former Navy lieutenant Carlos Rosso Pena, who was fired in August 2008 for his ties to drug trafficking, and Navy Captain Miguel Antonio Suarez Silfa have been requested in extradition. The two are linked to the murder of seven Colombians in Paya. Rosso's whereabouts are unknown.
Suarez Silfa has voluntarily handed himself in to the US authorities in Puerto Rico. He is accused of picking up and transporting cocaine for delivery to Puerto Rico on a Dominican Navy coastguard boat. Suarez Silfa served as commander of the GC-107, the Luperon station, second in command of the Capella, in charge of the Navy post in Bayahibe, commander of Neyba, and the Las Americas International Airport VIP room. His father is a rear admiral in the Navy, according to Listin Diario.
Rosso was an officer assigned to the Intelligence Department of the Navy (M2), the Navy Military Police, the Armed Forces Intelligence Division (J2), as well as patroller on the Juan Alejandro Acosta ship.
Meanwhile, Armed Forces Chief Major General Pedro Rafael Pena Antonio said that more than 700 members of the Armed Forces have been fired for acts that link them to drug trafficking.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#11)