National District prosecutor Jose Hernandez Peguero accused the past authorities of not acting against Quirino Paulino Castillo, accused in the DR of smuggling cocaine and in the US of drug trafficking and money laundering. As reported in the Listin Diario, the Banco Popular and the BanReservas acted correctly in reporting to the Superintendence of Banks and the National Drug Control Department the large sums of money that had been deposited. Paulino Castillo had more than RD$100 million deposited in these banks. Hernandez Peguero on the TV program El Dia said that the regulatory authorities are obliged to act on reports from the banks. Julio Cross, the last Superintendent of Banks under the Mejia government, said that when he would receive one of these reports he would send it to the National Department of Drug Control. His predecessor, Jose Alberto Atallah, who was removed following the Baninter banking scandal, was not available for comment.