El Dia newspaper’s editorial today, Thursday 15 January 2015 comments that the problems affecting the Police Central Anti-Narcotics Directorate (Dican) are widespread. The Dican case made headlines after substantial proof of unreported drugs was obtained and the case is now being prosecuted.
El Dia points out however, that Crisania Soriano, a young woman from Hato Mayor who describes herself as a retired drug dealer, says she left the business because she was tired of having to bribe Dican, National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) and Central Agency for Criminal Investigations (Dicrim) agents. She said she stopped working when she was told that in addition to bribes for the Dican agents, she had to provide funds for DNCD and Dicrim agents, as well as for the prosecutor, who was aware of the deals.
“This young drug micro-trafficking entrepreneur could be exaggerating, but anyone who knows the barrios also knows that the complicity between DNCD and Police agents with the drug vendors is common knowledge,” writes the editorialist.
The editorialist comments that the attorney general was right to say that the investigations should continue. The writer says it is hard to believe that officers and their subordinates could be involved in the trade and in stealing drugs from drug traffickers without the Police, National Investigations (DNI), Drug Control Agency (DNCD) chiefs being aware.
The editorialist writes that there are law firms dedicated to defend the traffickers, journalists on the payroll of drug traffickers, banks and companies that launder drug trafficking money. “It is definitely not just Dican. What is rotten is the whole system,” writes the editorialist.