2009News

Officials seize assets

Following the recent discovery of connections between disappeared pilot Adriano Jose Basilio Jimenez Henriquez and former military captain Quirino Paulino Castillo, who is standing trial in New York for a major cocaine trafficking operation, officials have begun seizing the pilot’s assets. Diario Libre reports that the Santiago District Attorney’s office confiscated a plane belonging to the pilot at the city’s Cibao International Airport. Officials have also taken a computer and documents belonging to the people he was illegally transporting when the plane and its occupants disappeared near the Turks and Caicos. Authorities will also confiscate a helicopter, farm, yacht, and various luxury cars owned by the pilot.