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01-05-2010, 03:40 PM
German Miranda Villalona, director of the Anti-laundering Unit at the Prosecutor General's Office has warned that drug trafficking has permeated all the state's security and intelligence organizations. Senator Wilton Guerrero initially denounced the situation 2 years ago, in the wake of the Paya killings. Now Miranda Villalona is accusing the authorities of complicity that enabled the escape of the Benitez brothers, Oscar, Luis, Carlos and Jose Benitez who invested heavily in the Punta Cana region, and who are being sought for money laundering in a Medicare scam, the case against Spaniard Ricardo Diaz Conde who is being sought for capture on the orders of Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon for drug trafficking, and that of Puerto Rican drug trafficker Jose Figueroa Agosto, as reported in El Caribe. Miranda Villalona also said that all political parties were permeated by drug trafficking. He called on the intelligence organizations to join forces and for a purge of security organizations.
El Caribe refers also to statements by Marino Vinicio Castillo (Vincho), president of the government Commission for Ethics and the Fight against Corruption who said that 30% of those who aspired to electoral posts in the municipal and congressional elections of May 2010 have links to drug trafficking.
Senator Wilton Guerrero, interviewed on the El Dia show on Channel 11, reiterated over the holidays that military sectors that he did not identify tried to impede the release of the identity of military officers involved in the murder of seven drug traffickers in Paya, Bani. He repeated his accusation that high-ranking government figures are at the service of drug traffickers. Guerrero, nevertheless, praised the work of the new director of the National Drug Control Department (DNCD), as reported in El Caribe.
As reported in Hoy, Guerrero said on the TV show that in the case of Puerto Rican drug trafficker Jose Figueroa Agosto not only are "big fish" involved, but also "sharks." He called on the public to press for the military figures and civilians who are involved to be unmasked, as in the case of what happened following the Paya murders, in which he said that the attribution of blame was only achieved by "pulling teeth". Guerrero said that Figueroa Agosto used to receive 2 airplanes loaded with cocaine every week and these represented revenues of US$2 million each, resources with which he said he secured the support of the military. Guerrero said that while Figueroa Agosto is a fugitive from justice, his network continues to operate because it has wide-ranging ramifications. He said that Figueroa Agosto was operating in the east, but when that area "heated up" he moved the operations to Samana and Puerto Plata.
"That is, in the same way as the Paya network has not been dismantled, neither has this one. It has received several blows, but they continue because there is complicity at a number of levels that is important to unravel," he said on El Dia, as reported in Hoy.
Guerrero said that it is not a secret for anyone that high-ranking officers of the Navy traveled to Colombia to make transactions with Colombian capos, or that DNCD agents met with them at the DNCD offices in Bani.
"We have been advocating that the authorities work tenaciously to get to the last person, but this can only happen by unmasking the civilian and military heads that are involved in this case," said Guerrero.
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El Caribe refers also to statements by Marino Vinicio Castillo (Vincho), president of the government Commission for Ethics and the Fight against Corruption who said that 30% of those who aspired to electoral posts in the municipal and congressional elections of May 2010 have links to drug trafficking.
Senator Wilton Guerrero, interviewed on the El Dia show on Channel 11, reiterated over the holidays that military sectors that he did not identify tried to impede the release of the identity of military officers involved in the murder of seven drug traffickers in Paya, Bani. He repeated his accusation that high-ranking government figures are at the service of drug traffickers. Guerrero, nevertheless, praised the work of the new director of the National Drug Control Department (DNCD), as reported in El Caribe.
As reported in Hoy, Guerrero said on the TV show that in the case of Puerto Rican drug trafficker Jose Figueroa Agosto not only are "big fish" involved, but also "sharks." He called on the public to press for the military figures and civilians who are involved to be unmasked, as in the case of what happened following the Paya murders, in which he said that the attribution of blame was only achieved by "pulling teeth". Guerrero said that Figueroa Agosto used to receive 2 airplanes loaded with cocaine every week and these represented revenues of US$2 million each, resources with which he said he secured the support of the military. Guerrero said that while Figueroa Agosto is a fugitive from justice, his network continues to operate because it has wide-ranging ramifications. He said that Figueroa Agosto was operating in the east, but when that area "heated up" he moved the operations to Samana and Puerto Plata.
"That is, in the same way as the Paya network has not been dismantled, neither has this one. It has received several blows, but they continue because there is complicity at a number of levels that is important to unravel," he said on El Dia, as reported in Hoy.
Guerrero said that it is not a secret for anyone that high-ranking officers of the Navy traveled to Colombia to make transactions with Colombian capos, or that DNCD agents met with them at the DNCD offices in Bani.
"We have been advocating that the authorities work tenaciously to get to the last person, but this can only happen by unmasking the civilian and military heads that are involved in this case," said Guerrero.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)