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08-15-2011, 04:00 PM
International and Dominican authorities suspect that the Santiago-based cigar exporter, Cesar Teofilo Soriano Salazar, arrested two weeks ago for his involvement in the aborted shipment of 419 kilos of cocaine to Spain had ties to anti-narcotics agents in Spain. El Dia reports that intelligence services learned that he held telephone conversations with Spanish anti-drug agents prior to making the shipment. This led drug enforcement agencies in Spain, the US and the DR to look into possible complicity with Spanish agents.
As reported in El Dia, a tobacco businessman, 50-year old Soriano Salazar is also under investigation to establish whether he had ties with Puerto Rican drug capo Jose David Figueroa Agosto. District Attorney Alejandro Moscoso Segarra said they had been on his trail for a year and a half. Diario Libre reports that Moscoso Segarra suspects that Soriano, who owns the Don Cesar Cafe & Tabaco Boutique on Av. Gustavo Mejia Ricart in Santo Domingo, is tied to the Figueroa Agosto network.
Soriano is known to have made 15 shipments to Huelva, Spain in containers marked in the same way as the one that was delivering the tobacco that was confiscated at Haina port. The market value of the shipment is estimated at US$13 million. El Dia reports that the shipment left the Palmarejo, Villa Gonzalez tobacco warehouse but did not arrive at the maritime port until five days later.
National District prosecutor Alejandro Moscoso Segarra said that Soriano could be tried for two simultaneous cases n one for the 419 kilos shipment of cocaine and the other for his relationship with Figueroa Agosto. Moscoso suspects that Soriano assisted Figueroa Agosto in obtaining false identities. Also under arrest in the Soriano case are Francisco Antonio Suriel Peralta, owner of the Compania Transporte Suriel, customs agent Domingo Villa Henriquez and tobacco businessman Luis Antonio Reyes of L & R Cigars.
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As reported in El Dia, a tobacco businessman, 50-year old Soriano Salazar is also under investigation to establish whether he had ties with Puerto Rican drug capo Jose David Figueroa Agosto. District Attorney Alejandro Moscoso Segarra said they had been on his trail for a year and a half. Diario Libre reports that Moscoso Segarra suspects that Soriano, who owns the Don Cesar Cafe & Tabaco Boutique on Av. Gustavo Mejia Ricart in Santo Domingo, is tied to the Figueroa Agosto network.
Soriano is known to have made 15 shipments to Huelva, Spain in containers marked in the same way as the one that was delivering the tobacco that was confiscated at Haina port. The market value of the shipment is estimated at US$13 million. El Dia reports that the shipment left the Palmarejo, Villa Gonzalez tobacco warehouse but did not arrive at the maritime port until five days later.
National District prosecutor Alejandro Moscoso Segarra said that Soriano could be tried for two simultaneous cases n one for the 419 kilos shipment of cocaine and the other for his relationship with Figueroa Agosto. Moscoso suspects that Soriano assisted Figueroa Agosto in obtaining false identities. Also under arrest in the Soriano case are Francisco Antonio Suriel Peralta, owner of the Compania Transporte Suriel, customs agent Domingo Villa Henriquez and tobacco businessman Luis Antonio Reyes of L & R Cigars.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)