[DR1] Bail for two in Quirino case

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The New York Southern District Federal Court granted bail to two men accused in the Quirino Ernesto Paulino money laundering and drug trafficking case as reported to Diario Libre by attorney Stanislao Germen, who represented currency exchange agent Abel Burdiez and his employee Richard Peca Mejia, both from Moca. Another of the accused, Ramon Perez Ferreras, pled guilty last week to charges of money laundering. Germen said his defendants paid a bond of US$250,000 each guaranteed in kind by relatives who put forth property and goods, including a house. The two Dominicans must stay in New York and report weekly to officers of the Federal Probations Department which will be monitoring their activities and movements. On his part, Perez Ferreras will be sentenced on 16 August and could face between 10 to 15 years mandatory term in prison according to the Rockefeller laws against drugs in New York State.

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