[DR1] Baez questioned by DA Department

[NewsWhore]

Former banker and president of collapsed Banco Intercontinental (BANINTER), Ramon Baez Figueroa, spent 40 minutes at the District Attorney's Department on Thursday afternoon after being summoned to meet with the Coordinating Prosecutor of the Drug Trafficking and Abuse Department accredited with the National Drug Control Department, Gustavo Santos Cool, and assistant investigating prosecutors Francisco Polanco and Luis Gonzales Reyes, who listened to his version of an undisclosed investigation. A report by Clave Digital indicates that according to a source close to Baez the conversation was linked to investigations under way by the Justice Department in relation to US$10 million that TV journalist Guillermo Gomez had deposited in Baninter and Trust, and which the Central Bank exchanged locally for investment certificates in pesos. The District Attorney's Department is tracking alleged asset laundering activity. After the meeting, Baez and his attorney Juarez Castillo Seman declined to comment on the reasons for the meeting. Afterwards, District Attorney Hernandez Peguero explained that Baez had been summoned to hold a conversation in relation to a case under investigation, which could not yet be disclosed. The DA did specify that it had nothing to do with the BANINTER case.

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