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08-17-2010, 03:10 PM
A special commission investigating officers of the Armed Forces and the Police for their alleged links with Puerto Rican drug capo Jose David Figueroa Agosto recommended that the Minister of the Armed Forces and the Police expel nine officers and three from the lower ranks after finding evidence of their ties with drug traffickers.
Major General Rolando Rosado Mateo, president of the National Drug Control Department and spokesman Colonel Ramon Alcides Rodriguez Veras gave the press the names of the officials who were due for dismissal. They are, as reported in Saturday's Diario Libre: Lieutenant Colonel Alfredo Vargas Herrera (Army), Major Victor Enrique Liriano Fernandez (Police), captains Jose Manuel Helena Ramirez and Luis Alfredo Baez Ortiz (Police), sergeant Darwin Ovidio Rodriguez Disla (Army) and corporals Algenis Buathis Soriano (Army) and Samuel Moises Bautista (Navy), several agents of the DNCD. Also major Roberto Soto Felix Juan Ramon Aquino (Army), and Aneury Rodriguez, (Air Force, captain Ernesto Jose Peguero Mota (Police) and second lieutenant Arnulfo Encarnacion Medina (Army).
The spokesman said that investigations by the commission found that those named had used their position as military officials to engage in practices in conflict with their work and were members of an international drug trafficking network.
The commission also recommended the expulsion of Colonel Carlos Ariel Fernandez Concepcion for direct ties with an international drug trafficking network that recruited and groomed mules for smuggling drugs from the DR to Europe and the US. El Dia reports that Fernandez was an officer at the Department of Intelligence of the Department of Migration
http://diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=257136&l=1
On Monday, a court in Santo Domingo released seven of the 13 arrested officers. Those freed were Aneury Rodriguez, Anulfo Encarnacion Medina, Juan Aquino Rodriguez, Ernesto Peguero Mota, Jose Helena Ramirez, Victor Liriano Fernandez and Darwin Ovidio Rodriguez Disla, as reported in Diario Libre.
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Major General Rolando Rosado Mateo, president of the National Drug Control Department and spokesman Colonel Ramon Alcides Rodriguez Veras gave the press the names of the officials who were due for dismissal. They are, as reported in Saturday's Diario Libre: Lieutenant Colonel Alfredo Vargas Herrera (Army), Major Victor Enrique Liriano Fernandez (Police), captains Jose Manuel Helena Ramirez and Luis Alfredo Baez Ortiz (Police), sergeant Darwin Ovidio Rodriguez Disla (Army) and corporals Algenis Buathis Soriano (Army) and Samuel Moises Bautista (Navy), several agents of the DNCD. Also major Roberto Soto Felix Juan Ramon Aquino (Army), and Aneury Rodriguez, (Air Force, captain Ernesto Jose Peguero Mota (Police) and second lieutenant Arnulfo Encarnacion Medina (Army).
The spokesman said that investigations by the commission found that those named had used their position as military officials to engage in practices in conflict with their work and were members of an international drug trafficking network.
The commission also recommended the expulsion of Colonel Carlos Ariel Fernandez Concepcion for direct ties with an international drug trafficking network that recruited and groomed mules for smuggling drugs from the DR to Europe and the US. El Dia reports that Fernandez was an officer at the Department of Intelligence of the Department of Migration
http://diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=257136&l=1
On Monday, a court in Santo Domingo released seven of the 13 arrested officers. Those freed were Aneury Rodriguez, Anulfo Encarnacion Medina, Juan Aquino Rodriguez, Ernesto Peguero Mota, Jose Helena Ramirez, Victor Liriano Fernandez and Darwin Ovidio Rodriguez Disla, as reported in Diario Libre.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#15)