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07-25-2011, 01:40 PM
Lawyer Marino (Vincho) Vinicio Castillo said that he has sufficient proof that a Volvo vehicle belonging to Puerto Rican drug capo Jose David Figueroa Agosto visited the headquarters of the US Embassy when Hans Hertell was United States ambassador in the DR. He said that Julio Ibarra, one of those accused of money laundering in the Figueroa Agosto case here, said in the court that he met Figueroa Agosto with US Embassy staff at the Sofia Restaurant. "They were friends, then, and that is known in this trial..." he said, as reported in Listin Diario. Castillo said that Hertell developed such good relationships that after leaving the post he remained representing interests, including Barrick Gold. He said that he had his first clash with the diplomat in July 2002 for the approval in the Chamber of Deputies of an agreement for a railway project.
He made the statement in response to the publication of a WikiLeaks cable quoting him as saying that he sought to replace the president of the Supreme Court of Justice with the vice president of the court, Rafael Luciano Pichardo, seeking to benefit his defendants in the Baninter banking fraud case. He said that the statements are perverse because he had severed ties with Luciano Pichardo since the case of former President Jorge Blanco.
Writing in Listin Diario, the lawyer's son Vinicio Castillo Seman said that some months later, the railway contract was rejected and the Puerto Rican who promoted the project that he said had Hertell's support, was convicted of corruption in Puerto Rico.
Castillo Seman mentioned that his father dedicated many of his TV broadcasts (La Respuesta) to criticize Hertell's complacency towards Hipolito Mejia's administration and criticized Hertell's "suspicious silence in great cases of drug trafficking that would be known, including bringing a well known Cali Cartel capo who had been in jail in the US to the DR to build 10,000 houses for the army".
www.listin.com.do/la-republica/2011/7/24/197120/Vincho-Castillo-dice-ex-embajador-Hertell-hizo-diabluras-en-RD (http://www.listin.com.do/la-republica/2011/7/24/197120/Vincho-Castillo-dice-ex-embajador-Hertell-hizo-diabluras-en-RD)
www.listindiario.com.do/puntos-de-vista/2011/7/24/197108/El-cable-de-Hertell (http://www.listindiario.com.do/puntos-de-vista/2011/7/24/197108/El-cable-de-Hertell)
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He made the statement in response to the publication of a WikiLeaks cable quoting him as saying that he sought to replace the president of the Supreme Court of Justice with the vice president of the court, Rafael Luciano Pichardo, seeking to benefit his defendants in the Baninter banking fraud case. He said that the statements are perverse because he had severed ties with Luciano Pichardo since the case of former President Jorge Blanco.
Writing in Listin Diario, the lawyer's son Vinicio Castillo Seman said that some months later, the railway contract was rejected and the Puerto Rican who promoted the project that he said had Hertell's support, was convicted of corruption in Puerto Rico.
Castillo Seman mentioned that his father dedicated many of his TV broadcasts (La Respuesta) to criticize Hertell's complacency towards Hipolito Mejia's administration and criticized Hertell's "suspicious silence in great cases of drug trafficking that would be known, including bringing a well known Cali Cartel capo who had been in jail in the US to the DR to build 10,000 houses for the army".
www.listin.com.do/la-republica/2011/7/24/197120/Vincho-Castillo-dice-ex-embajador-Hertell-hizo-diabluras-en-RD (http://www.listin.com.do/la-republica/2011/7/24/197120/Vincho-Castillo-dice-ex-embajador-Hertell-hizo-diabluras-en-RD)
www.listindiario.com.do/puntos-de-vista/2011/7/24/197108/El-cable-de-Hertell (http://www.listindiario.com.do/puntos-de-vista/2011/7/24/197108/El-cable-de-Hertell)
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