A Santo Domingo West judge has imposed 10 months of preventive custody against two women who are accused of being involved in the case in which of over US$2 million in found in cargo at the port of Haina. The money is suspected to belong to an international drug dealing and money laundering network.
Judge Cirilo Salomón, declared the case to be complex and handed down the coercive measures against Luisa Amelia Fermín Hernández and Miguelina Verónica Franco,mother and wife of one of the supposed leaders of the organization, identified as Fernando José Esteffani Fermín. All of them are Dominican.
At the hearing, it was shown that Luisa Fermín is the legal owner of two apartments in Residential Leticia in Villa Olga in Santiago where drugs and other objects linked to the money found in Haina were discovered. It was highlighted that Fermin actually lived in one of the apartments where 17 packages of cocaine were found as well as the vehicle parts in which the money was hidden.
Also discovered were suitcases, adhesive tape for suitcases, a Glock pistol, bullets, a rifle and a bullet proof jacket. In the kitchen there were weighing scales and molds for drugs.
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Diario Libre
8 May 2018
