DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

The Supreme Court of Justice appointed Napoleon Estevez to be the special instruction judge for legislators under investigation regarding the Operation Falcon, a case looking into the actions of a major money laundering and international drug trafficking network that had been operating freely for more than 10 years in the Dominican Republic. Estevez had already been assigned to hear the case against deputy Rosa Amalia Pilarte (PRM-La Vega), suspect of having ties to drug trafficking. Her husband Miguel Arturo López Florencio (Miky) is arraigned on money laundering charges related to drug trafficking in Miami, Florida.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office had requested the appointment to continue investigations regarding deputies Nelson Marmolejo Gil (PRM-Santiago), Faustina Guerrero Cabrera (PRM-El Seibo) and Héctor Darío Féliz Féliz (PRD-Pedernales).

The SCJ received...