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01-31-2012, 01:50 PM
Police officials are trying to establish whether or not a former legislator from Puerto Rico, a fugitive from justice, is hiding in the Dominican Republic.
Police spokesman Colonel Maximo Baez Aybar denied that the institution has given any information to the Puerto Rican Police, and he added that the National Police had begun its own investigations. In the meantime, the Puerto Rican authorities managed to trace the former representative of the New Progressive Party (PNP) Ivan Rodriguez Traverzo and confirmed during the weekend that he was in the Dominican Republic.
Rodriguez Traverzo has been a fugitive since an arrest warrant was issued on Friday, and if the arrest took place last night, the former legislator could be taken to Puerto Rico to face charges today, said sources at the Puerto Rican newspaper Primera Hora. The former PNP representative, who was kicked out of the Chamber in 2010, faces eight counts of corruption filed by special independent prosecutor Zulma Fuster last Friday. The process was done in absentia after countless attempts by the special prosecutor to summon Rodriguez Traverzo. At the same time, Rodriguez Traverzo's defense lawyer Hilton Garcia Aguirre said yesterday that his client would turn himself in to the authorities "as soon as he is guaranteed that they will not make a political spectacle or public humiliation out of this." Taped conversations with a newspaper in Puerto Rico seemed to indicate that the legislator was in the Dominican Republic, but officials are also looking in Florida.
http://www.primerahora.com/ubicanarodrigueztraverzoenrepublicadominicana-607646.html
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Police spokesman Colonel Maximo Baez Aybar denied that the institution has given any information to the Puerto Rican Police, and he added that the National Police had begun its own investigations. In the meantime, the Puerto Rican authorities managed to trace the former representative of the New Progressive Party (PNP) Ivan Rodriguez Traverzo and confirmed during the weekend that he was in the Dominican Republic.
Rodriguez Traverzo has been a fugitive since an arrest warrant was issued on Friday, and if the arrest took place last night, the former legislator could be taken to Puerto Rico to face charges today, said sources at the Puerto Rican newspaper Primera Hora. The former PNP representative, who was kicked out of the Chamber in 2010, faces eight counts of corruption filed by special independent prosecutor Zulma Fuster last Friday. The process was done in absentia after countless attempts by the special prosecutor to summon Rodriguez Traverzo. At the same time, Rodriguez Traverzo's defense lawyer Hilton Garcia Aguirre said yesterday that his client would turn himself in to the authorities "as soon as he is guaranteed that they will not make a political spectacle or public humiliation out of this." Taped conversations with a newspaper in Puerto Rico seemed to indicate that the legislator was in the Dominican Republic, but officials are also looking in Florida.
http://www.primerahora.com/ubicanarodrigueztraverzoenrepublicadominicana-607646.html
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#10)