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03-10-2010, 02:40 PM
The online news portal 7dias.com.do reports that the police chief owned an apartment in the 21-floor Torre Atiemar on Av. Pedro Henriquez Urena, La Esperilla neighborhood, now linked to a Spanish drug trafficker and money launderer. The portal also reveals that financing for the luxury high rise came from the Dominican government commercial bank, Banco de Reservas.
The government bank Banco de Reservas was responsible for 100% of financing of the Torre Atiemar, now said to belong to Spanish drug trafficker Arturo del Tiempo Marques. The bank accepted deposits in Switzerland as a guarantee for the loan.
President Leonel Fernandez was present in 2005 at the groundbreaking ceremony in for the construction. 7dias.com.do says that the building was thus financed with local savings, and was not an example of foreign investment, as President Fernandez had highlighted on the occasion of start of construction.
The news portal reports that private banks had rejected to finance the tower, after a background search showed ties of the Spaniard to Mario Conde, in jail for bank fraud in Spain.
7dias.com.do reports that Arturo del Tiempo Marques is in jail in Barcelona, while his son, Arturo del Tiempo Manzarbeitia, who is vice president of the Dominican construction company, is under arrest in Madrid. He was arrested as a suspect in the shipment of 1,200 kilos of cocaine that arrived from the DR to Spain. The freight container had the drugs hidden under marble that supposedly was a remnant of the construction of Atiemar Tower.
Torre Atiemar company vice president Tiempo Manzarbeitia and his sister Isabel left the country shortly after the shipment. Isabel was in charge of local relations, such as those with the Banco de Reservas, as reported in 7dias.com.do
In Santo Domingo, Tiempo Manzarbeitia lived in a tower at Av Bolivar facing the Conservatory Music, in the same building where the authorities had ssearched for fugitive drug baron Jose Figueroa Agosto and where they arrested a lawyer that subsequently was released.
The online portal says that most of those who purchased at the Torre Atiemar received financing from the Banco de Reservas through their real estate division. The building is 98% finished. Reportedly, Del Tiempo Marquez has 5 apartments, his son Arturo owns two and his daughter Isabel, one. It mentions that the other apartments were sold to known persons, including one of these to the chief of the Police.
Hoy newspaper reports that the authorities have been mute on the case.
http://www.7dias.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=70648
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The government bank Banco de Reservas was responsible for 100% of financing of the Torre Atiemar, now said to belong to Spanish drug trafficker Arturo del Tiempo Marques. The bank accepted deposits in Switzerland as a guarantee for the loan.
President Leonel Fernandez was present in 2005 at the groundbreaking ceremony in for the construction. 7dias.com.do says that the building was thus financed with local savings, and was not an example of foreign investment, as President Fernandez had highlighted on the occasion of start of construction.
The news portal reports that private banks had rejected to finance the tower, after a background search showed ties of the Spaniard to Mario Conde, in jail for bank fraud in Spain.
7dias.com.do reports that Arturo del Tiempo Marques is in jail in Barcelona, while his son, Arturo del Tiempo Manzarbeitia, who is vice president of the Dominican construction company, is under arrest in Madrid. He was arrested as a suspect in the shipment of 1,200 kilos of cocaine that arrived from the DR to Spain. The freight container had the drugs hidden under marble that supposedly was a remnant of the construction of Atiemar Tower.
Torre Atiemar company vice president Tiempo Manzarbeitia and his sister Isabel left the country shortly after the shipment. Isabel was in charge of local relations, such as those with the Banco de Reservas, as reported in 7dias.com.do
In Santo Domingo, Tiempo Manzarbeitia lived in a tower at Av Bolivar facing the Conservatory Music, in the same building where the authorities had ssearched for fugitive drug baron Jose Figueroa Agosto and where they arrested a lawyer that subsequently was released.
The online portal says that most of those who purchased at the Torre Atiemar received financing from the Banco de Reservas through their real estate division. The building is 98% finished. Reportedly, Del Tiempo Marquez has 5 apartments, his son Arturo owns two and his daughter Isabel, one. It mentions that the other apartments were sold to known persons, including one of these to the chief of the Police.
Hoy newspaper reports that the authorities have been mute on the case.
http://www.7dias.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=70648
http://www.z101fm.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12543... (http://www.z101fm.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12543:dncd-ni-confirma-ni-niega-custodie-otra-torre-de-arturo-del-tiempo&catid=39:policia-justicia&Itemid=156)
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