SANTO DOMINGO. - The National District’s 5th Instruction Court judge today noon began the preliminary hearing against ex- colonel Pedro Julio Goico (Pepe Goico) from zero, with the Justice Ministry filing the indictment.
Natividad de los Santos initiated the hearing after the proceeding was almost in its final phase, when the Prosecution filed a challenge against her, motion rejected by the National District Court of Appeals.
The Penal Procedural Code stipulates that when a judge is challenged the trial must begin again at zero, only after a term of 10 days expires between the challenge and the decision.
Also figure as defendants in the case retired Army general Rafael Molina Suaso, Elibet Ubrí Medrano, the wife of ex-Army captain Quirino Paulino, being held in the United States on federal narcotics charges; Bienvenido Ernesto Guevara (Maconi), Pedro Ubiera, among others accused of money laundering in the mafia allegedly headed by Paulino.
http://www.dominicantoday.com/app/article.aspx?id=21991
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on Sunday, December 10, 2006
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.
http://www.dominicantoday.com/app/article.aspx?id=20371
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.
http://www.dominicantoday.com/app/article.aspx?id=20371
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