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10-04-2006, 06:40 PM
Businessman Jose Perez Ferreras has accepted a plea bargain offered by federal prosecutors in New York, and is now the first person to be sentenced in the Quirino trial. Perez Ferreras will serve 18 months, pay US$10,000 and remain on probation for three years. Readers will remember the discovery of 1,387 kilograms of cocaine in a truck at one of former Army officer Ernesto Quirino Castillo's gasoline stations. Perez Ferreras was found guilty of money laundering. Perez was the last person extradited to the U.S. in the Quirino case, but the first one to receive his sentence. Perez Ferreras was the first to admit laundering millions of Dominican pesos and hundreds of thousands of dollars as part of the operation. Because of the large number of accused, 17, and the many motions and counter-motions, defense lawyers are saying that the trial could take as long as a year to come to a conclusion.
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