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03-11-2010, 03:30 PM
Arturo del Tiempo Marques, one of the developers of the Torre Atiemar (Pedro Henriquez Urena & Mexico) and Torre Margot in Santo Domingo (Anacaona) is under arrest in Barcelona. Now local news sources indicate that the luxury high rise developer, who was arrested on 2 March as a suspect in a cocaine shipment to Spain, was a fugitive of Spainish justice for his past involvement in a EUR40 million fraud regarding a municipal farming and mining company, according to Diario Libre. Del Tiempo Marques is now in jail in Barcelona with one of his partners, Antonio Nunez Sebria for a shipment of 1,200 kilos of cocaine that arrived from the DR on 2 March.
President Leonel Fernandez himself had praised the investment of the Spaniard in the tower, when participating in October 2005 in the groundbreaking ceremony for the highw rise.
News portal 7dias.com.do asks whether at the time Del Tiempo's background was checked by government security and by the Banco de Reservas, the financier of the tower. A check carried out by the news portal showed the Spaniard did not have a substantial business background for the mega investment in the Atiemar or Margot towers promoted by Del Tiempo in the DR.
Yesterday, the drug advisor to the President, lawyer Marino (Vincho) Castillo told the press that he had reports that the father of the chief of the Police, Guillermo Guzman Acosta was the owner of an apartment at the tower. Earlier, 7dias.com.do had reported the chief of the police had an apartment at the tower. News reports now indicate that Guzman Acosta financed the apartment by selling a US$1.7 million apartment he owned at the Anacaona Avenue. Guzman Acosta is a former chief of the Police.
The Atiemar apartments' selling price was US$1.3 million, or approximately RD$46 million.
In a statement responding to questions as to why the Banco de Reservas took up the financing of the tower, the bank issued a statement saying that to approve a financing a client check is done and proof of economic solvency needs to be presented. 7dias.com.do had reported private banks rejected the financing.
http://www.presidencia.gob.do/app/article.aspx?id=2266
http://www.7dias.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=70740
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President Leonel Fernandez himself had praised the investment of the Spaniard in the tower, when participating in October 2005 in the groundbreaking ceremony for the highw rise.
News portal 7dias.com.do asks whether at the time Del Tiempo's background was checked by government security and by the Banco de Reservas, the financier of the tower. A check carried out by the news portal showed the Spaniard did not have a substantial business background for the mega investment in the Atiemar or Margot towers promoted by Del Tiempo in the DR.
Yesterday, the drug advisor to the President, lawyer Marino (Vincho) Castillo told the press that he had reports that the father of the chief of the Police, Guillermo Guzman Acosta was the owner of an apartment at the tower. Earlier, 7dias.com.do had reported the chief of the police had an apartment at the tower. News reports now indicate that Guzman Acosta financed the apartment by selling a US$1.7 million apartment he owned at the Anacaona Avenue. Guzman Acosta is a former chief of the Police.
The Atiemar apartments' selling price was US$1.3 million, or approximately RD$46 million.
In a statement responding to questions as to why the Banco de Reservas took up the financing of the tower, the bank issued a statement saying that to approve a financing a client check is done and proof of economic solvency needs to be presented. 7dias.com.do had reported private banks rejected the financing.
http://www.presidencia.gob.do/app/article.aspx?id=2266
http://www.7dias.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=70740
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#11)