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12-16-2009, 04:30 PM
Mary Pelaez Frappier is denying that she has ties to drug trafficker Jose Figueroa Agosto. In a press conference, the lawyer for the daughter of murdered Dominican comedian Milton Pelaez complained that National District prosecutor Alejandro Moscoso acted in response to a recent court decision that returned a property in Arroyo Hondo, which is being linked to fugitive drug trafficker Jose Figueroa Agosto. The lawyer said that the prosecutor should have taken the case to the Court of Appeals and not to the press. Pelaez says that an apartment in Cabarete belongs to the Pelaez family and not to her personally, as reported in the Listin Diario.
Figueroa is a fugitive from justice for drug trafficking and money laundering charges. The National District prosecutor has accused Mary Pelaez of being a front for Figueroa Agosto.
In an interview in El Caribe, Mary Pelaez said that the house in Arroyo Hondo was never occupied. She did admit however that she knew Figueroa Agosto. She said that Figueroa frequented nightclubs and restaurants, but that she never engaged in a commercial transaction with him "and no one can prove that I received a peso from him." She also confirmed knowing Sobeida Felix's ex-husband Eddy Brito. She said they both worked together at the Vimenca remittance company until he moved on to manage an exchange house in Gaspar Hernandez. She said that based on that work relationship, in April this year she purchased the Arroyo Hondo home from Eddy Brito for more than RD$10 million. The home is located at Calle Transversal No. 16. The District prosecutor confiscated the house on 16 September.
She said the house did not have any legal issues when she made the purchase, as reported in El Caribe. She said that the apartment in Cabarete is a family property.
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Figueroa is a fugitive from justice for drug trafficking and money laundering charges. The National District prosecutor has accused Mary Pelaez of being a front for Figueroa Agosto.
In an interview in El Caribe, Mary Pelaez said that the house in Arroyo Hondo was never occupied. She did admit however that she knew Figueroa Agosto. She said that Figueroa frequented nightclubs and restaurants, but that she never engaged in a commercial transaction with him "and no one can prove that I received a peso from him." She also confirmed knowing Sobeida Felix's ex-husband Eddy Brito. She said they both worked together at the Vimenca remittance company until he moved on to manage an exchange house in Gaspar Hernandez. She said that based on that work relationship, in April this year she purchased the Arroyo Hondo home from Eddy Brito for more than RD$10 million. The home is located at Calle Transversal No. 16. The District prosecutor confiscated the house on 16 September.
She said the house did not have any legal issues when she made the purchase, as reported in El Caribe. She said that the apartment in Cabarete is a family property.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)