District Attorney Jose Manuel Hernandez Peguero says that he plans to indict Quirino Ernesto Castillo for another case of drug trafficking which involves different people, some of whom have already been arrested while others are at large. Listin Diario reports the DA as saying that Castillo is being accused of directing an operation involving a shipment of 1,136 kilos of cocaine seized in Puerto Rico on 31 March 2003. Former colonel Lidio Arturo Nin Terrero, foreign exchange agent Jose Guante and Samuel Eduardo Rogriguez Cordero (Eduardito) are also involved in the case. The latter is at large. The case will be presented to court before 19 December.
Diario Libre indicates that, according to the DA, “many more” will be included in this next accusation. “We have identified those responsible, and Quirino is the sponsor of the shipment, but the authorities of the previous government administration did not do anything about it”, said the DA. The drug was shipped from the DR to Puerto Rico.
El Caribe says that charges will be presented after a broad investigation performed by joint prosecutors and security agents that identified the people responsible for the shipment. He said that the drugs passed through the DR under a system called “delivery surveillance” which is used by security organizations to track the routes used by traffickers and follow up to uncover all those involved.