The Attorney General’s Office has announced that Colombian Diego Prada has been arrested, accused of being the head of a criminal enterprise involved with introducing millions of dollars into the country via mules, in order to pay for drugs. A press release says that Prada was arrested at dawn on Saturday 26 January 2019, while he was travelling in an SUV in Santo Domingo, in an operation carried out by members of the Drug Control Agency, DNCD and the Anti Money Laundering Prosecution Service.
Following his arrest for money laundering and drug dealing, the authorities raided an apartment in Torre Viena, Los Cacicazgos sector where Prada was said to live. There they confiscated more than US$111,000 and a money counting machine. Prada had been sought for around ten months, and was taken to the Public Prosecutor in Santiago.
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29 January 2019
