In a full page advertisement published in today’s Hoy newspaper, Wednesday 10 April, lawyer Vinicio A. Castillo Seman rejects statements by Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito on Monday 8 April, claiming that the FBI agents who interviewed the domestic employees in a villa belonging to ophthalmologist Salomon Melgen had acted according to the rules. Jurist and television commentator Marino Vinicio Castillo (Vincho) had said that the FBI agents had interrogated the workers without legal permission.
In the advertisement, Vincho Castillo’s son, Castillo Seman says: “Lic. Francisco Dominguez Brito knows perfectly well that in order to make an arrest, to take citizens to a police station and conduct an interrogation it is indispensable, according to our Constitution, international treaties, the criminal code, the presence of the competent legal authority that is the prosecutors, a judicial order and the presence of one of the lawyers of the people to be questioned, which was completely absent in the police operation orchestrated against the employees of Dr. Salomon Melgen.”
Castillo has denounced the actions of the FBI agents on Dominican territory.
He said that General Castro Castillo, eastern regional Police chief, told the National Police investigating commission that he requested the presence of the La Romana prosecutor to General Alejandro Dipre but was told that the presence of the prosecutor or any judicial authority was not necessary because he had been authorized by Francisco Dominguez Brito, general prosecutor.
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