Mexican police and Interpol agents, working in cooperation with Dominican authorities, arrested in the DR over the weekend seven people accused by Mexican authorities of working with former Mexican banker Carlos Cabal Peniche in a money laundering ring. The arrests were announced only yesterday by Mexican authorities. Dominican authorities were reluctant to discuss the case even when pressed by local news organizations. Detained were Dominicans Aquiles Fernández Jiménez and Bolívar Aquiles Reynoso, Italians Guido Parlatorre, Walter Viterelli and Maurizo Monticelli, and Puerto Ricans Carlos Raúl López and María Manuela Romeu. Cabal Peniche was arrested last month in Australia after having fled Mexico. Meanwhile the afternoon daily Ultima Hora reports that the Ministry of Foreign Relations, disturbed to find out that Cabal Peniche and his family were carrying Dominican passports when captured, has been secretly investigating its consulates in Europe and Asia to determine whether one of them illegally issued the fugitives the passports.
