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11-02-2009, 03:30 PM
El Dia newspaper is denouncing the fact that although some of the DR's big drug capos are arrested and extradited to the US, they have been able to maneuver in justice to keep their vast fortunes in the DR intact. The late Florian Feliz and extradited Quirino Paulino Castillo, Ernesto Bienvenido Guevara Diaz, Carlos Rosso Pena and Miguel Antonio Suarez Silfa had their cases heard by the judiciary, but continued to enjoy their wealth. The newspaper report estimates that Quirino Paulino, Guevara Diaz and Rosso Pena managed to keep a total of RD$1.8 billion among themselves. The Dominican justice system has not ordered the confiscation of assets in any of those cases. Quirino accepted to deduct RD$520 million of a fortune that is estimated to exceed RD$1 billion, as reported in Hoy.
El Dia reports that the system also favored Ernesto Bienvenido Guevara Diaz (Maconi) because when he was extradited there was an "error" by the Penal Court of the Supreme Court of Justice and his goods were not confiscated. He is in jail in the US, but continues to enjoy his riches, estimated in hundreds of millions.
The newspaper writes that the state prosecutor is now seeking for the US to order the confiscation of Guevara Diaz's property, which could be possible in a framework of international judicial cooperation.
Furthermore, former Navy officer Carlos Rosso Pena signed his voluntary extradition and was sent to the US without anyone touching his enormous fortune, which according to anti-narcotics agents is estimated at more than US$25 million, openly amassed in front of his colleagues and even using Dominican navy ships, as reported in El Dia. In that case, efforts are under way for the US to order the confiscation of the assets, estimated at more than US$16 million. See http://www.listin.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=119566 and http://www.listin.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=119485
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El Dia reports that the system also favored Ernesto Bienvenido Guevara Diaz (Maconi) because when he was extradited there was an "error" by the Penal Court of the Supreme Court of Justice and his goods were not confiscated. He is in jail in the US, but continues to enjoy his riches, estimated in hundreds of millions.
The newspaper writes that the state prosecutor is now seeking for the US to order the confiscation of Guevara Diaz's property, which could be possible in a framework of international judicial cooperation.
Furthermore, former Navy officer Carlos Rosso Pena signed his voluntary extradition and was sent to the US without anyone touching his enormous fortune, which according to anti-narcotics agents is estimated at more than US$25 million, openly amassed in front of his colleagues and even using Dominican navy ships, as reported in El Dia. In that case, efforts are under way for the US to order the confiscation of the assets, estimated at more than US$16 million. See http://www.listin.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=119566 and http://www.listin.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=119485
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)