Judge José Alejandro Vargas ordered that 54-year old Christophe Rene Henri Naudin serve five years in prison for his participation in cover up operations related to the so-called Air Cocaine case in the Dominican Republic. He is accused of assisting two French pilots sentenced to 20 years in jail for drug trafficking from leaving the country.
The judge validated an agreement between the defense and the Dominican public prosecutor’s office in which Naudin pleaded guilty to criminal conspiracy and covering up for pilots Pascal Fauret and Bruno Odos and accepted to pay the Dominican state a RD$1.5 million (approximately US$33,000) fine. Naudin is a criminologist and aviation security expert.
Naudin had been extradited to the Dominican Republic from Egypt in March 2016 for his involvement in the escape of the two pilots.
The judge ordered that Naudin serve his sentence in Najayo men’s prison. His lawyer, Miguel Valerio, says that a request can be made for him to serve the sentence in France as the agreement establishes the Dominican prosecutors will not oppose the transfer.
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Acento
30 October 2017
