The Judicial Branch Council removed San Cristobal judge Regina Carvajal Vizcaino for having received bribes to favor drug traffickers and for attempted extortion of businessman Celso Marranzini and his company Multiquimica Dominicana with RD$300,000 to issue a favorable sentence, as reported in Diario Libre.
Diario Libre reports that this is the same judge who in March 2009 favored Pedro Alejandro Castillo Paniagua (Quirinito) with bail for RD$3 million. He was later arrested for the kidnapping and murder of Victor Mella Terrero. Quirinito is sought by the justice after he was able to obtain documents, including a death certificate, to escape from serving a first 30-year jail sentence.
The Judicial Branch Council inspectors determined that Carvajal Vizcaino had received bribes to lift an embargo to a bank account of Jose Miguel Ceballos Rosario (El Viajero) made by prosecutors. Ceballos was accused of being the head of a drug trafficking network. Some 333.13 kilos were seized of pure cocaine in Nigua, San Cristobal.
22 November 2017
