Contraband had a common owner

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The 34 containers involved in one of the major contraband scandals of 2006 are part of a group of 284 that the Customs Department has considered "suspicious" since March 2006. Even though customs authorities have not revealed the names and companies involved in the case, Diario Libre newspaper reporters have discovered, through legal sources, that the contraband was seized from three businesses that all belong to one group, operating from one address and that have the same boards of directors. The companies are called Gray Marbel Investment, registered at the Internal Revenue Department in 2004, CGV Comercial and Inversiones Brea Urea, registered in 2006. All three are based at Los Cerezos Street, #7 in the Los Prados section of Santo Domingo. During the investigation, it emerged that Gray Marbel Investment was sold by the firm Asesores Juridicos y Financieros, SA to Plutarco Ernersto Gonzalez on 22 February 2006. Gonzalez is currently in jail facing murder charges for the death of humorist Milton Pelaez. The sale was for RD$150,000. As Diario Libre points out, all three companies had many of their directorships in common.

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