On Thursday 14 June 2018, a Santo Domingo court will begin a new sentencing trial against Winston Rizik Rodríguez (El Gallero) and his brother Nelson Rizik Delgado, both sentenced to 10 years in jail for money laundering, drug dealing and illegal arms possession as a Monte Plata court annulled the sentence and ordered a new trial.
The new trial is due to take place at 9am in the Palace of Justice and will have judges Elizabeth Rodríguez as president, along with Julio Aybar and Diana Moreno.
Following his arrest, the Public Prosecution service confiscated from Rizik, two farms, a cockfighting training center with more than 500 roosters, vehicles, around 300 heads of cattle, more than three dozen horse and several pieces of real estate.
Rizik was arrested previously in 2011, accused of participating in the murders of two young men whose bodies were found decapitated in September 2010 in Palenque, San Cristobal and in February 2009, the Supreme Court rejected a request for extradition by the United States against Rizik who had escaped from a Florida jail having been condemned for eight years for drug dealing.
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13 June 2018
