The authorities have confiscated US$949,830, which is over RD$40 million from two people, one of whom had been deported from the United States, when they were carrying out a drug related transaction.
The money was found in an Audi A4 car, driven by Einer Joel Jimenez Toribio, who was deported from the United States having completed a five-year sentence for heroin trafficking.
According to Miguel Medina, spokesman for the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD), the dollars were found in different places inside the car. Also arrested was Leonardo Garcia Jose who was in possession of RD$350,000 and US$50.
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