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08-11-2011, 04:20 PM
Marino Elseviyf Pineda, lawyer of Juan Jose Fernandez Ibarra, accused of complicity with drug traffickers and asset laundering in the drug trafficking Jose David Figueroa Agosto case, said in his closing statements yesterday in court that Figueroa Agosto was a protegee of Dominican authorities and of the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States and the US Embassy, as reported in Hoy. The lawyer said that Figueroa Agosto, who had been convicted to serve 209 years in jail in Puerto Rico but escaped jail there, was assisted in the Dominican Republic by an active colonel of the Police, the late Jose Amado Gonzalez Gonzalez. The colonel was murdered in 24 December 2009, before he could declare in the court case ongoing against 8 that prosecutors accuse of criminal complicity and asset laundering and ties to the Puerto Rico drug trafficking network. He called for a not guilty acquittal for his client in the case, arguing he was duped because Figueroa Agosto was a protegee of the authorities.
Fernandez argued that Ibarra has not denied that he sold three SUVs to Figueroa, whom he knew as Christian Almonte, but had no way of determining that the individual was linked to illicit business. He stressed that Figueroa met regularly with national authorities and diplomats in public places and made use of government and diplomatic plates on vehicles for his personal use, said Elseviyf Pineda in court.
He asked the judges Gisselle Mendez, Tania Tamariz Yuly Yunes how they could condemn his client for selling to Cristian Almonte (Figueroa), a man who had overt access to intelligence agencies.
Meanwhile, National District prosecutor Alejandro Moscoso Segarra has refused to comment on allegations of defendant lawyers yesterday that the case was slanted after Moscoso Segarra viewed a porno video of Figueroa Agosto and others that have not been mentioned. Defense lawyer Jose Ariza said, as reported in Hoy that the meeting took place "in the office of my friend Miguelito Medina," referring to the communicator and former spokesman for General Rafael Bencosme Candelier, former director of Criminal Investigations of the Police and of the Metropolitan Transport Authority.
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Fernandez argued that Ibarra has not denied that he sold three SUVs to Figueroa, whom he knew as Christian Almonte, but had no way of determining that the individual was linked to illicit business. He stressed that Figueroa met regularly with national authorities and diplomats in public places and made use of government and diplomatic plates on vehicles for his personal use, said Elseviyf Pineda in court.
He asked the judges Gisselle Mendez, Tania Tamariz Yuly Yunes how they could condemn his client for selling to Cristian Almonte (Figueroa), a man who had overt access to intelligence agencies.
Meanwhile, National District prosecutor Alejandro Moscoso Segarra has refused to comment on allegations of defendant lawyers yesterday that the case was slanted after Moscoso Segarra viewed a porno video of Figueroa Agosto and others that have not been mentioned. Defense lawyer Jose Ariza said, as reported in Hoy that the meeting took place "in the office of my friend Miguelito Medina," referring to the communicator and former spokesman for General Rafael Bencosme Candelier, former director of Criminal Investigations of the Police and of the Metropolitan Transport Authority.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#9)