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06-29-2010, 06:10 PM
In a press conference described by former judge and journalist Carmen Imbert Brugal as "institutional violence," the former legal advisor to the government's Asset Laundering Committee's Financial Analysis Unit, Sonya Uribe said she had done nothing wrong in her dealings with Mary Pelaez, who is in jail for her ties to fugitive drug baron Jose David Figueroa Agosto. The press conference took place at the Hotel Embajador's meeting hall.
On Monday Prosecutor General Radhames Jimenez also played down Uribe's dealings with her neighbor Mary Pelaez, saying there was no incriminating evidence linking Uribe to Figueroa Agosto. He said that she had been dismissed from her post on an issue of ethics, but at the press conference Uribe said that she had resigned.
On Saturday 26 June, investigative TV journalist Nuria Piera screened a program with proof of Uribe's close ties to Pelaez. When questioned about her assets, Uribe revealed that she is able to pay a RD$57,000 mortgage on a new residence on her RD$60,000 legal advisor wage due to an additional US$5,000 monthly fee that she receives as a private lawyer. Piera presented evidence that shows conflicts of interest between Uribe's private practice and her government job.
On the TV show, Uribe admitted to owning a Volkwagen Touareg 2008 that had been seen entering a Cabarete luxury apartment complex with Jose David Figueroa Agosto.
Marino Vinicio Castillo, president of the government Ethics Council, confirmed that Uribe Moya had incurred ethical problems because she could not be an official of such a sensitive department and a private counsel at the same time.
On Tuesday Castillo said that the case of the legal counsel to the government's Asset Laundering Committee might be related to officials, whom he did not name, but who allegedly resisted the introduction of software from the US designed for detecting illicit activities.
According to Castillo, "There was resistance to the installation of software proposed by the US. Who didn't want it, it is very advanced, is it because of money laundering? Maybe that's where the answer about that woman's (Uribe) behavior may lie", he told reporters at the Presidential Palace, as reported on crimesite.com
On her show, Piera said the same documents she had been sent on the Sonya Uribe case had been sent to all government institutions and had been ignored. She thought the case was important enough to do something about Uribe's conflicts of interest.
Piera said that the Uribe affair shows that there are many areas in the Jose David Figueroa Agosto case that have not been investigated or revealed by the government crime or justice investigators. Sonya Uribe was the legal counsel in the government department in charge of analyzing financial operations of operations with red flags. Piera said that someone in Uribe's post should be above suspicion. She said she made the case public to encourage the authorities to provide explanations. Uribe had worked in the post of legal counsel at the government's Asset Laundering Committee's Financial Analysis Unit since October 2008. Uribe herself explained on the Nuria Piera TV show that her unit dealt with suspicious operations in the financial and non-financial sector.
Piera said Uribe had been involved in dealings that were incompatible with her post.
See www.nuria.com.do/casos.php (http://www.nuria.com.do/casos.php)
http://www.crimesite.com/index.php/blog/item/4837-anti-money-laundering-software... (http://www.crimesite.com/index.php/blog/item/4837-anti-money-laundering-software-may-have-sparked-officials-discreet-dismissal)
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On Monday Prosecutor General Radhames Jimenez also played down Uribe's dealings with her neighbor Mary Pelaez, saying there was no incriminating evidence linking Uribe to Figueroa Agosto. He said that she had been dismissed from her post on an issue of ethics, but at the press conference Uribe said that she had resigned.
On Saturday 26 June, investigative TV journalist Nuria Piera screened a program with proof of Uribe's close ties to Pelaez. When questioned about her assets, Uribe revealed that she is able to pay a RD$57,000 mortgage on a new residence on her RD$60,000 legal advisor wage due to an additional US$5,000 monthly fee that she receives as a private lawyer. Piera presented evidence that shows conflicts of interest between Uribe's private practice and her government job.
On the TV show, Uribe admitted to owning a Volkwagen Touareg 2008 that had been seen entering a Cabarete luxury apartment complex with Jose David Figueroa Agosto.
Marino Vinicio Castillo, president of the government Ethics Council, confirmed that Uribe Moya had incurred ethical problems because she could not be an official of such a sensitive department and a private counsel at the same time.
On Tuesday Castillo said that the case of the legal counsel to the government's Asset Laundering Committee might be related to officials, whom he did not name, but who allegedly resisted the introduction of software from the US designed for detecting illicit activities.
According to Castillo, "There was resistance to the installation of software proposed by the US. Who didn't want it, it is very advanced, is it because of money laundering? Maybe that's where the answer about that woman's (Uribe) behavior may lie", he told reporters at the Presidential Palace, as reported on crimesite.com
On her show, Piera said the same documents she had been sent on the Sonya Uribe case had been sent to all government institutions and had been ignored. She thought the case was important enough to do something about Uribe's conflicts of interest.
Piera said that the Uribe affair shows that there are many areas in the Jose David Figueroa Agosto case that have not been investigated or revealed by the government crime or justice investigators. Sonya Uribe was the legal counsel in the government department in charge of analyzing financial operations of operations with red flags. Piera said that someone in Uribe's post should be above suspicion. She said she made the case public to encourage the authorities to provide explanations. Uribe had worked in the post of legal counsel at the government's Asset Laundering Committee's Financial Analysis Unit since October 2008. Uribe herself explained on the Nuria Piera TV show that her unit dealt with suspicious operations in the financial and non-financial sector.
Piera said Uribe had been involved in dealings that were incompatible with her post.
See www.nuria.com.do/casos.php (http://www.nuria.com.do/casos.php)
http://www.crimesite.com/index.php/blog/item/4837-anti-money-laundering-software... (http://www.crimesite.com/index.php/blog/item/4837-anti-money-laundering-software-may-have-sparked-officials-discreet-dismissal)
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#6)