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12-21-2009, 02:40 PM
Twenty properties, including plots, luxury villas, commercial malls, housing projects and apartments have been seized from Ricardo Diez Conde. Spaniard Diez Conde is described as having close links to an alleged network of international drug traffickers that used the country to launder billions of pesos. The seizures were carried out at the request of Spanish judge Baltazar Garzon in Madrid, as reported in Diario Libre.
The 20 properties seized from the fugitive are located in the municipality of Higuey. As reported, these include a villa located in Punta Cana with a surface area of 2,094m2 inside the Tortuga Bay project. Likewise, a 12,577 m2 parcel 67-B-181 of Cadastral District No. 11-3rd, as well as a commercial plaza called Coral Park, built on this same site. Also taken was a Cessna 402B airplane that is parked at the La Isabela International Airport in Santo Domingo.
Judge Garzon says that Diez Conde, who also possessed a Venezuelan passport in the name of Ruben Ramos Ortega, is also known as "the Emigrant". The judge said that the accused belongs to an organization that planned to bring cocaine from some point in South America into Spain, and then later launder the amount of money that came from the illegal sale of the drugs.
He said that they had also identified Madrid resident Oscar Eduardo Salazar Molina and some of his family members, as well some friends who worked for the accused, and so detected the group's social network.
In June 2007, Jose Belisario Pinieros Rodriguez and Alexandra Duran Marin were identified as the main leaders of the organization, whose role was to get the money out of Spain to South America through Spanish airports using a series of concealment methods. In his request for international cooperation sent to the Dominican Republic Prosecutor General, Garzon said that Belisario Pinieros and Duran Marin were arrested in Spain with 110 kgs of cocaine in July, hidden in wooden furniture that came from Venezuela.
He added that Salazar Molina and Pinieros Rodriguez had met with Jose Luis Diez Perez who handed over EUR20,000 to Pinieros who, in turn handed it over to Diez Conde. Ricardo Alvarez Barrera, a confidant of the fugitive, was detained after 69kgs of cocaine were found in the trunk of the car that he was driving, and they found 176 kilograms of the drug, hidden in excavating machines, EUR200,000 and a firearm inside a building he had been observed leaving. The Spanish judge says that during a series of recorded telephone conversations they mentioned several properties located in the Dominican Republic in which Conde Diez and Salazar Molina had invested money.
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The 20 properties seized from the fugitive are located in the municipality of Higuey. As reported, these include a villa located in Punta Cana with a surface area of 2,094m2 inside the Tortuga Bay project. Likewise, a 12,577 m2 parcel 67-B-181 of Cadastral District No. 11-3rd, as well as a commercial plaza called Coral Park, built on this same site. Also taken was a Cessna 402B airplane that is parked at the La Isabela International Airport in Santo Domingo.
Judge Garzon says that Diez Conde, who also possessed a Venezuelan passport in the name of Ruben Ramos Ortega, is also known as "the Emigrant". The judge said that the accused belongs to an organization that planned to bring cocaine from some point in South America into Spain, and then later launder the amount of money that came from the illegal sale of the drugs.
He said that they had also identified Madrid resident Oscar Eduardo Salazar Molina and some of his family members, as well some friends who worked for the accused, and so detected the group's social network.
In June 2007, Jose Belisario Pinieros Rodriguez and Alexandra Duran Marin were identified as the main leaders of the organization, whose role was to get the money out of Spain to South America through Spanish airports using a series of concealment methods. In his request for international cooperation sent to the Dominican Republic Prosecutor General, Garzon said that Belisario Pinieros and Duran Marin were arrested in Spain with 110 kgs of cocaine in July, hidden in wooden furniture that came from Venezuela.
He added that Salazar Molina and Pinieros Rodriguez had met with Jose Luis Diez Perez who handed over EUR20,000 to Pinieros who, in turn handed it over to Diez Conde. Ricardo Alvarez Barrera, a confidant of the fugitive, was detained after 69kgs of cocaine were found in the trunk of the car that he was driving, and they found 176 kilograms of the drug, hidden in excavating machines, EUR200,000 and a firearm inside a building he had been observed leaving. The Spanish judge says that during a series of recorded telephone conversations they mentioned several properties located in the Dominican Republic in which Conde Diez and Salazar Molina had invested money.
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