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Justice Ministry requests pre-trial detention in Cesar Peralta drug trafficking case
The Justice Ministry filed a request for coercive measures against four of the nine people under arrest for their ties to the network of drug trafficker César Emilio Peralta, better known as "César El Abusador" (César the Abuser).

The Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of the National District is asked to impose a year of pre-trial detention and the declaration of a complex case due to the number of defendants and the plurality of infractions they would have committed, in order to be able to carry out an exhaustive investigation and obtain more evidence to structure a strong case.

The request is for pre-trial custody against former Major League Baseball player Octavio Eduardo Dotel Diaz, Jose Bernabé Quitero, Obispo Feliz Lorenzo and Roberto Jose Caceres, arrested in the start of the case in local justice. The court set the hearing for Monday, 26 August 2019.

The accusations include drug trafficking, laundering of assets from illicit drug trafficking, and possession and use of firearms.

The director of communications for the Attorney General Office, Julieta Tejeda says a red alert has been placed globally for the capture of Cesar Emilio Peralta and his wife Marisol Mercedes Franco, among others sought in this case. The chief of the National Investigations Department (DNI), the local FBI, says that he could not tell if these have left the country because the investigations are up to the Attorney General Office.

A report in the Monday, 26 August issue of El Día says that César Emilio Peralta had another identity. He is also Eduardo Saldaña Rodríguez.

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How money is laundered in the Peralta drug trafficking operations
The purchase of luxury automobiles and properties in the name of others (mostly willing but some not-so-willing) is one of the ways to money launder cash from illicit crime. Others are the opening entertainment locales and bars under legitimate commercial enterprises and carrying out murky transactions through currency exchange offices. The Attorney General Office lists these methods as those used by alleged drug kingpin Cesar Emilio Peralta (Cesar el Abusador), in his money laundering operations.

The Attorney General Office seeks pre-trial custody against Roberto Jose Caceres, Jose Bernabe Quiterio, former MLB pitcher Octavio Dotel and Obispo Feliz Lorenzo, the first arrested in the case against Cesar Emilio Peralta and his drug trafficking operation.

The case file indicates that there was a complete scheme for laundering the money from the Peralta large-scale operations of the cartel headed by Peralta. The Dominican government prosecutors file also includes retired MLB ballplayer Luis Castillo as one who “lent his name.” Dotel has explained he and Castillo are being tied to the case due to a US$1.6 million mortgage loan that they made to Eridania del Carmen Jorge Estrella in the case of two villas in Casa de Campo, one of which reportedly was property of convicted drug capo Quirino Ernesto Paulino. According to Dotel’s lawyers, the deal dates back to 2015. The lawyers noted that Dotel and Castillo were duped by the woman.

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El Dia: Nightclub network laundered drug trafficking cash
Drug capo Cesar Emilio Peralta was a big patron of the arts in the Dominican Republic, especially of urban artists. The capo had structured a network of nightclubs, drinks and other businesses to launder drug trafficking money.

A report in El Dia explains that the collaborators of drug capo Cesar Emilio Peralta (El Abusador) were able to avoid justice despite having track records in crime. El Dia points out that Yadher Rafael Jaquez Araujo (Jake Mate), was at the head of Jake Mate Productions that contracted leading performers. Jake Mate is a former member of the Dominican Air Force who in 2007 was arrested for being part of a gang of robbers. Released from charges, he would go on to become a prominent artistic contractor of urban music and salsa music performers.

He is now charged with being part of the Cesar Emilio Peralta drug trafficking organization (CPDTO). The nightclubs mentioned in the case are VIP Room (Zona Universitaria), La Kuora (Villa Consuelo), Flow Gallery Lounge (Villa Consuelo), and Aqua Club (Cristo Rey). Ozuna, Omega, Ala Jaza, Yiyo Sarante, El Alfa, Zion & Lennox, La Insuperable, Rochy RD were among the artists that frequently appeared at the nightclubs hired by the criminal organization.

The Attorney General Office now says these businesses served as meeting places to coordinate drug trafficking operations and front for the laundering of drug trafficking revenues.

El Dia observes that Jake Mate Productions also organized the Easter Bonche Las Terrenas in in which Puerto Ricans Ozuna, Arcangel and Farruko participated in 2018. In 2019, during the same event, Ozuna, La Insuperable and Omega were contracted.

El Dia reports that the extensive social media coverage in Instagram, Facebook and other media has since been removed.

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Wife of Sergio Gómez: Go after the big fish
The wife of Sergio Gómez Díaz, Steisy de Gómez requested in extradition by the US in the case of Cesar Emilio Peralta (Cesar el Abusador), said there is no justice in the Dominican Republic. “To close cases and make the news and hide other things where the small fry get arrested while the big guys go free,” she sums up the situation for the press after the arrest of her husband. She asked the press why Cesar Emilio Peralta was not under arrest. She said that those who have so many millions they could buy the whole country are those who should be sought. “Where they are, go get them,” she said. She said the family has suffered with the search of their property.

Gómez Díaz is on the list of those sought in extradition by the United States together with Jesús Tapia Pérez, Baltazar Mesa and Jeifry del Rosario Gautier, and ring leader Cesar Emilio Peralta.

Sergio Gomez Diaz, José Tapia, Baltazar Mesa (El Maestro), José Jesús Tapia Pérez, (Bola Negra), Sergio Gómez Díaz stated in court they did not know Cesar Emilio Peralta.

The local law enforcement agencies received the extradition order and file with details on the Cesar Emilio Peralta criminal organization on 16 July 2019 but did not act against them until 20 August 2019, with the whereabouts of Peralta and his collaborators now unknown.

Gómez Díaz is on the list of the Attorney General Office prosecution in the case, not so on the list of the US Treasury designated Kingpin Act persons whose whereabouts are unknown. The missing persons sought by the US Treasury are: Cesar Emilio Peralta, Natanael Castro Cordero, Carlos Ariel Fernández Concepción, Kelvin Enrique Fernández Flaquer, Yadher Rafael (Jake Mate, Jaque Mate) Jaquez Araujo, Boarnerges Sánchez Nolasco (Warnel), Jhonan Alexander Ureña Martínez), Bernardo Antonio (Papi Cris) Valdez García, and Ramón Antonio (Toño Leña) Del Rosario Puente. The later was arrested in Colombia where he awaits extradition to the United States.

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Arrest order out for Marisol Franco, wife of Cesar Emilio Peralta
The Specialized Anti Assets Laundering Prosecutors Office and the National District prosecutor office issued an order of arrest against Marisol Mercedes Franco, wife of César Emilio Peralta (El Abusador) charged by the US as the leading drug capo in the Caribbean region. Marisol Franco is half-sister to Berlinesa Franco, widow of former Santo Domingo East Mayor Juan de los Santos, creator of the nationwide network of sports betting shops, known as Juancito Sport. Berlinesa Franco was named to head the National Institute of Attention to Early Infancy (INAIPI) after the death of her husband.

Both Marisol Mercedes and Berlinesa are daughters of Franklin Franco (Francisco José Franco Martínez), a US justice fugitive. Franco had been requested by the US government in extradition on accusations that he had evaded serving a jail sentence for trafficking in cocaine in the United States.

Julio Martínez Pozo said on his Sol de la Mañana talk show on Zol radio station said that Marisol Franco formalized her relationship marrying Cesar Emilio Peralta after the death of Juan de los Santos. He said the couple has been married for a year and a half. Martínez Pozo said that previously, Marisol Franco was married to PRM deputy for the National District 3, Sergio Moya (Gory), with whom she has two adult children.

It is now known that the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) requested the extradition of Marisol Mercedes Franco’s husband, Cesar Emilio Peralta and his chief collaborators on 18 July when making a personal visit to the Dominican Republic. The extradition request had been made via the Ministry of Foreign Relations on 16 July.

It would take local prosecutors until Tuesday, 21 August to carry out a sweep of 50 properties of the accused by the US government and order the arrest of Peralta. The weekend before the sweep, Peralta and several of his collaborators were seen enjoying a Latin music festival at the Hard Rock Punta Cana Hotel & Casino.

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Hipólito Mejía had pardoned Boarnerges Sánchez now accused again of drug trafficking
In 2003, a little more than a year before leaving office, former President Hipólito Mejía pardoned 43-year old Boanerges Sánchez Nolasco who at the time was in jail for trafficking in cocaine. Then, President Mejía signed Decree 176-03 with the pardon of the seven-year term Sánchez was serving at the Monte Plata jail. Mejía had reached the Presidency on the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) ticket. Guido Gómez Mazara was the legal advisor to the President and confirmed the decree.

Meanwhile, pardoned Sánchez Nolasco is back in the highlight for much of the same. The man aspired to run for senator for the opposition party PRM in the May 2020 congressional election. He is on the list of drug traffickers mentioned in the Kingpin Act-designated list published by the US Treasury. PRM party president said the party had reserved the position of senator for Hato Mayor for someone else.

The Attorney General of the Dominican Republic now accuses Sánchez of being part of the Cesar Emilio Peralta Drug Trafficking Organization that was reportedly dismantled last week.

Sánchez Nolasco is also known as "Warnel, la Letra W." He is brother of PRM deputy, Ronald Sánchez who has served as spokesman for the party in the Chamber of Deputies.

Now President Hipólito Mejía seeks to win the PRM presidential candidacy in the 6 October 2019 primary. The PRD years later would split into the PRD and the PRM.

Also running for the candidacy for senator for the party is Cristobal Castillo, a follower of Luis Abinader. Abinader is the best standing presidential pre-candidate in the PRM.

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Dominican police spokesman is on payroll of MLB
An investigation in the Boston Globe newspaper reveals that the spokesman for the National Police in the Dominican Republic, Colonel Frank Felix Duran Mejia has been on the payroll of Major League Baseball for over a decade. Indeed he is one of three high-ranking Dominican law enforcement officials employed as MLB resident security agents.

The revelation is new even in the Dominican Republic. It adds to the local and international skepticism around the Dominican police and attorney general conclusions on the shooting against Red Sox retired baseball player David Ortiz in a bar in eastern Santo Domingo. The Police concluded it was a case of mistaken identity and that the bullets were aimed at Sixto David Fernández instead over a family grudge with his cousin Victor Hugo Gómez Vásquez.

The Boston Globe reports:
“The arrangement, at least to the few who have known of it, raises questions about Duran’s loyalties at a time when the police’s shifting accounts of the near-fatal June 9 shooting of Ortiz have been met with widespread skepticism. And security specialists who have worked in the Dominican Republic said the close ties with MLB inevitably raise questions about the objectivity of police officials.”

The Boston Globe is also reporting that the ballplayer has hired a former police chief of Boston to look into findings of the Dominican police regarding the shooting.

The La Cuestion radio talk show on Friday, 23 August shares an audio by Victor Hugo Gomez Vásquez, whom the Dominican police accused of the murder, and who says that investigations should be carried out into the main source of income of his cousin, Sixto David Fernández Vásquez.

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The expensive luxuries of Cesar Emilio Peralta
Investigative journalist Nuria Piera has presented insights into the costly taste of now accused Cesar Emilio Peralta. The United States Treasury presented evidence of drug trafficking and money laundering activities and designated Peralta and eight accomplices under the Kingpin Act. The US shared the file with the Dominican Republic that a month later would carry out a sweep but did not detain a single person on the US Treasury list.

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JCE orders investigation into the second ID allegedly used by Cesar Emilio Peralta
The Central Electoral Board (JCE) is investigating the ID allegedly issued to fugitive drug capo Cesar Emilio Peralta in the name of Eduardo Saldaña Rodríguez. The JCE has preliminary information showing he had two IDs with the same photograph, one with the name Cesar Emilio Peralta and another under Eduardo Saldaña Rodríguez.

The JCE explained that the ID with the name of Eduardo Saldaña Rodríguez shows a non-active status and has never been renewed. It should have been cancelled. The investigation seeks to determine which documents were used for the issuing of the IDs, and the biometric data associated to these.

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Police spokesman on the MLB payroll, Ortiz denies ties to Cesar Emilio Peralta
The spokesman for the Police, Colonel Frank Félix Durán Mejía confirmed on Monday, 26 August 2019 that he is paid for collaborating with the MLB for over 10 years. This was not publicly known until the Boston Globe reported on the possible conflict of interests in the case of the shooting of retired Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz. Felix Durán said on the El Sol de la Mañana radio talk show that he has not participated in the investigative phase of the David Ortiz case.

A Monday 26 August 2019 Ortiz's spokesman Joe Baerlein said that Ortiz had hired former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis to investigate his shooting at the at Dial Bar and Lounge in eastern Santo Domingo on 9 June 2019.

The Police and Attorney General Office have said it was a case of mistaken identity. Baerlein told the Boston Globe: "He had no basis for a long time to challenge their theory of mistaken identity. However, as new facts continue to come up, it lends some optimism that there may be some other conclusions that are drawn before it's over about why David was shot."

As reported in the Boston Globe, Dominican National Police Colonel Frank Felix Duran Mejia told the Boston Globe that investigators looked into other possible motives behind the shooting but they were unsubstantiated. He added that Ortiz was "in the wrong place at the wrong time."

Baerlin reported that the Edward Davis Company is monitoring and analyzing information from various sources in the Dominican Republic around the motives for the shooting of David Ortiz on 9 June. The company is also providing personal security services for Ortiz and his family.

Davis was police commissioner from 2006 to 2013. He was overseeing the department during the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombing.

The bullet passed through Ortiz’s lower back and perforated his intestines and lower organs before hitting his friend, TV personality Jhoel Lopez, in the leg. The Police said that Sixto David Fernández Vásquez was the target, not the MLB star. Fernández’s cousin, Victor Hugo Gomez Vásquez, was accused by the Attorney General and the Police of orchestrating the botched hit. He has been arrested, along with several other suspects.

Now the private investigation seeks to find out what really happened. A video uploaded by Gómez Vásquez directs investigators to his cousin, Fernández Vásquez, who he says is not simply the owner of a detailing workshop as the authorities have said.

The David Ortiz shooting has been in the media again with the US Treasury releasing information on drug capo Cesar Emilio Peralta. A video showed that Peralta was at the Centro de Medicina Avanzada medical center where David Ortiz was taken on the evening of the shooting. The Dominican Police, nevertheless, did not include Peralta in the known investigations nor the findings that were made public. Baerlein has said that Ortiz has no relationship with César Emilio Peralta (El Abusador). Peralta is accused by the US Treasury of running a drug trafficking and money laundering operation.

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Two accused in Cesar Emilio Peralta case say they will go to US to answer charges
José Jesús Tapia Pérez, alias "Bola Negra" or "El Boludo" and former baseball player Baltazar Mesa (El Maestro) agreed to travel to the United States to answer to charges of trafficking, possession and distribution of cocaine in that nation, as well as to their alleged links to the Cesar Emilio Peralta Drug Trafficking Operation. They observed “justice is good” in the United States.

An indictment from the Southern District of Florida charges Baltazar Mesa and Tapia Perez with being top associates of the Peralta criminal organization to import, distribute and promote cocaine in Florida and New York.

Meanwhile, the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice postponed for 6 September 2019 the hearing on the extradition request against Sergio Gómez Díaz, who is accused of being a leader of the network of the alleged capo Peralta. Gómez Díaz's lawyer indicated that he has another criminal case pending in the Fourth Collegiate Court of the National District. "Gomez Diaz is being prosecuted for violation of the Drug Law, Money Laundering and association of criminals," his defense said. He said his client already has already posted bail and cannot leave the country. The lawyer has asked the judges to postpone the extradition process to the United States against Gomez Diaz until the process in the country is concluded and he is released.

An editorial in El Dia points out how the deals drug traffickers have struck with US justice officers have worked well for these. Among those who have been extradited and were able to keep big fortunes are Quirino Paulino Castillo, Ernesto Guevara Díaz (Maconi), Antonio del Rosario Puente (Toño Leña) and Yubel Enrique Mendez Méndez (Oreganito).

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Disappearing night club owners leave big tax debt
Many of the businesses now related to the Cesar Emilio Peralta Drug Trafficking Operation (Peralta DTO) owe millions in back taxes, according to Magín Díaz, the director general of the Tax Agency (DGII). He said that most of the companies had been notified over the years.

The Peralta DTO had more than 15 discotheques. Among these, the larger are Kuora (Villa Consuelo); Aqua Club (Avenida Ortega Ortega y Gasset 91 Esq. Felix Evaristo Mejia); París Bar & Lounge, on Club Rotario, Santo Domingo Este; VIP Room, Av. Abraham Lincoln corner Independencia; and Flow Gallery Lounge (Villa Consuelo).

Media reports indicate that the luxury nightclubs part of the Peralta DTO operated cash only.

On Tuesday, 20 August, the Attorney General Office held a raid against the businesses accused of being related to drug trafficking and money laundering.

The authorities say they do not know the whereabouts of Cesar Emilio Peralta and the top associates charged by the US government.

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Is the Justice keeping a low profile for Marisol Mercedes Franco?
Listin Diario reports that Marisol Mercedes Franco, wife of drug capo César Emilio Peralta (El Abusador) is included in the arrest order against 18 persons issued on Monday, 19 August at 4:30pm by the Instruction Court of the National District. She is charged with collaborating in the asset laundering scheme of the organization led by César Emilio Peralta "acquiring goods and benefiting from their illicit profits knowing that these came from drug trafficking."

Listin Diario reports that while the Attorney General Office has not publicly stated that Franco is included, she is on the list of those charged of drug trafficking and asset laundering.

From the very first moment, the Public Prosecutor's Office, which handed over the case on the 19th at 10:57 a.m. before the office of the examining magistrate, José Alejandro Vargas, did not reveal Mercedes Franco's name when it revealed the identity of the prisoners, those who had arrest warrants and others under persecution of the law.

The newspaper said that on Sunday afternoon, 25 August 2019, the Attorney General of the Republic had issued a press release in which he reports on the progress of the investigation, and takes stock of each of the people arrested by the case and those who the office is pursuing. The name of Marisol Franco does not appear in either of the two lists.

On Tuesday the 21st of this month, the Attorney General's Office, DNCD and DEA deployed raids and interventions that have left 10 people imprisoned and 14 fugitives. The United States has named nine people as major drug traffickers: Ramón Antonio del Rosario Puente (Toño Leña), Kelvin Enrique Fernández Flaquer (Cotto), Yaher Rafael Jáquez (Jake Mate), Bernardo Ant. Valdez García (Papi Cris), Natanael Castro Cordero; Jhonan Alexander Martínez Ureña; Boarnerges Sánchez Nolasco (Warnel) and Carlos Fernández.

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Marisol Franco arrested in Cesar Emilio Peralta drug case
The authorities arrested Marisol Franco, wife of justice fugitive César Emilio Peralta (El Abusador) on Tuesday, 27 August 2019 at the home of the couple in Blue Tower in the Naco area of Santo Domingo. She was with her four children. The children were allowed to stay with relatives.

Peralta is accused of being the ringleader of a powerful international drug trafficking gang that sent cocaine and heroin shipments from the Dominican Republic to the United States and Europe.

Franco is charged of collaborating in the asset laundering scheme of the organization led by César Emilio Peralta "acquiring goods and benefiting from their illicit profits knowing that these came from drug trafficking."

But upon making the arrest at her home in Blue Tower, National District prosecutor Rosalba Ramos said that the woman is being investigated and the fact that she is the wife of an accused does not make her responsible for her husband’s actions, as reported in Diario Libre printed edition on 28 August 2019.

When she was arrested, she was accompanied by her lawyer Joaquin Belisario who stated: “A wife has no criminal responsibility, but for her personal deed. She is calm, waiting for prosecutors to investigate the case. The fact that you have an arrest warrant does not criminally commit you,” said the attorney.

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Castillo and Dotel now out of Cesar Emilio Peralta drug case
Retired ballplayer Luis Castillo was in the Dominican Republic on Friday to present documentation to clear his name from the Cesar Emilio Peralta drug case. The Justice Ministry reportedly accepted the documentation as valid and will not press the charges announced last week by the Attorney General in a press conference.

Castillo was mentioned in the drug case together with fellow MLB player Octavio Dotel. Dotel was cleared from the case but had to post bail anyway after a sweep of his house found he had unauthorized firearms.

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Jaque Mate is the first on the US Kingpin Act list to turn himself in
On Friday, 30 August 2019 in the afternoon, Yadher Rafael Jaquez Araujo (Jaque Mate) became the first to turn himself in to the Dominican law enforcement authorities that are investigating the Cesar Emilio Peralta drug case. Jaque Mate was best known as a major promoter of local artists at the network of major nightclubs owned by the so-called Cesar Emilio Peralta Drug Trafficking Operation (Peralta DTO). His lawyer says the charges are of money laundering. Jaque Mate is sought in extradition by the US government.

Peralta and his associates are accused of operating the largest drug smuggling and money laundering operation in the Caribbean. The drug smuggling and money laundering operation flourished openly in the Dominican Republic for around 20 years, up until 16 July 2019, when the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) of the United States shared with the Dominican Presidency, Attorney General Office and the National Drug Control Agency an extensive file with information on the drug trafficking and money laundering operation. The local authorities acted on the information with a sweep on more than 50 homes and businesses on Tuesday, 20 August. At the time of the raid, no one was arrested. The media reported on how Cesar Emilio Peralta and many of his top men, had spent the weekend before the raid vacationing at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Punta Cana where the Latin Tour Festival took place with the participation of many top urban and Latin music stars.

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https://www.treasury.gov/resource-ce...alta_chart.pdf
https://hoy.com.do/caso-cesar-el-abu...istas-urbanos/
https://www.diariolibre.com/opinion/...ura-ED13987762
 
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