Dr. Marino Vinicio Castillo, recognized for his efforts against the drug business in the DR, would like to know the origin of the fortune of more than RD$12 million that the director of the Department of Prevention of Corruption, Jesus Felix Jimenez declared at the start of his term. He challenged Jimenez to explain the origin of the six million he said the government officer has deposited in a bank. Castillo said that Jimenez’s years working as a lawyer are not sufficient to have accumulated such a fortune. Castillo urged Jimenez to tell the country how much his client, Maximo Reyes, who was extradited to the US for drug dealing and multiple assassinations, paid him for his defense. This case was handled when Castillo was president of the National Council of Drugs. "It would be good for the nation and the transparency of the public anti-corruption cases that Felix Jimenez, as lawyer of the extradited and other big drug bosses inform the country which persons were left administering the millionaire fortunes of these in the national territory." Castillo said that the director of the anti-corruption department cannot allege he inherited 100 dairy cows in the Northwest because the cows in the Northwest do not produce more than three bottles of milk. The director of the Anti-Corruption Department had declared on Wednesday that the work of Castillo at the front of the National Council of Drugs should be audited because the latter used the post to destroy reputations. Castillo said that all his work has already been audited.
