SANTO DOMINGO.- The National Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) froze 46.6 million pesos in financial certificates of 3 sisters arrested recently, and the authorities suspect that they were placed in their names by their brother Felix Antonio Zapata, extradited to the United States to face drug trafficking and money laundering charges in New York.
The antinarcotics organism said yesterday that the money was deposited in financial certificates under the names Miriam, Maritza and Francisca Zapata, and according to the documents in the possession of the Justice Ministry, Felix Antonio placed in the name of his sisters millions in assets, especially villas and apartments located in Bavaro, Punta Cana, and in Santo Domingo.
DNCD spokesman Roberto Lebrón said that those properties, once recovered, will be placed in the custody of the authorities. "We are convinced that this citizen made that fortune in illicit activities and put it in the name of those women," he said.
Two of the Zapata sisters, native of San Pedro (east), were detained last week in a raid on their residence and another went with her lawyer to the DNCD, where they were handed over to the Justice Ministry to await arraignment in the National District 3rd Instruction Court.
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