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03-09-2010, 06:00 PM
News sources are commenting that the US has requested in extradition some 10 Dominican retired generals for their ties to drug trafficking, and specifically the case being heard by Judge Kimba Wood at the New York South District Court regarding former army captain Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo.
Among these are retired general Rafael Bencosme Candelier (who serves as director of the Metropolitan Transport Authority), Major General Manuel Florentino Florentino, who is the director of the Border Development (Desarrollo Fronterizo). In 2004 when Army captain Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo was arrested, Florentino was the director of the National Department of Investigations. Also on the list is Retired General Virgilio Sierra Perez, a former chief of the Air Force and Navy Captain Alexander Soto Hatton.
At the time a captain in the Dominican army, Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo was arrested in a joint Dominican and US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the National Drug Control Department operation on 18 December 2004, moments after a truck loaded with 1,387 kilos of cocaine was seized. He was subsequently extradited to the US. The confiscated cocaine had an estimated value of approximately US$26 million.
Case investigator Angel Martinez, interviewed on the Huchi Lora radio talk show on CDN, said that the US Congress will consult with five Dominican active generals on the situation of Dominican military on ties within the military and drug trafficking. Martinez said that nine of the retired generals for whom there is an extradition request made to President Leonel Fernandez are part of the 31 that President Leonel Fernandez placed in retirement last week. Martinez said that 147 military are being investigated in the case of Quirino.
Martinez said that the retired police general and director of the Department of Prisons, General Manuel Perez Sanchez will be requested by the US Congress to explain the reason why hundreds of calls linked to drug trafficking operations are being carried out from Dominican jails.
The online portal, 7dias.com.do also has other details on the military suspect in the Quirino Paulino Castillo case.
See http://www.7dias.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=70511
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Among these are retired general Rafael Bencosme Candelier (who serves as director of the Metropolitan Transport Authority), Major General Manuel Florentino Florentino, who is the director of the Border Development (Desarrollo Fronterizo). In 2004 when Army captain Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo was arrested, Florentino was the director of the National Department of Investigations. Also on the list is Retired General Virgilio Sierra Perez, a former chief of the Air Force and Navy Captain Alexander Soto Hatton.
At the time a captain in the Dominican army, Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo was arrested in a joint Dominican and US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the National Drug Control Department operation on 18 December 2004, moments after a truck loaded with 1,387 kilos of cocaine was seized. He was subsequently extradited to the US. The confiscated cocaine had an estimated value of approximately US$26 million.
Case investigator Angel Martinez, interviewed on the Huchi Lora radio talk show on CDN, said that the US Congress will consult with five Dominican active generals on the situation of Dominican military on ties within the military and drug trafficking. Martinez said that nine of the retired generals for whom there is an extradition request made to President Leonel Fernandez are part of the 31 that President Leonel Fernandez placed in retirement last week. Martinez said that 147 military are being investigated in the case of Quirino.
Martinez said that the retired police general and director of the Department of Prisons, General Manuel Perez Sanchez will be requested by the US Congress to explain the reason why hundreds of calls linked to drug trafficking operations are being carried out from Dominican jails.
The online portal, 7dias.com.do also has other details on the military suspect in the Quirino Paulino Castillo case.
See http://www.7dias.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=70511
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)