Listin Diario reports that Marisol Mercedes Franco, wife of drug capo César Emilio Peralta (El Abusador) is included in the arrest order against 18 persons issued on Monday, 19 August at 4:30pm by the Instruction Court of the National District. She is charged with collaborating in the asset laundering scheme of the organization led by César Emilio Peralta “acquiring goods and benefiting from their illicit profits knowing that these came from drug trafficking.”
Listin Diario reports that while the Attorney General Office has not publicly stated that Franco is included, she is on the list of those charged of drug trafficking and asset laundering.
From the very first moment, the Public Prosecutor’s Office, which handed over the case on the 19th at 10:57 a.m. before the office of the examining magistrate, José Alejandro Vargas, did not reveal Mercedes Franco’s name when it revealed the identity of the prisoners, those who had arrest warrants and others under persecution of the law.
The newspaper said that on Sunday afternoon, 25 August 2019, the Attorney General of the Republic had issued a press release in which he reports on the progress of the investigation, and takes stock of each of the people arrested by the case and those who the office is pursuing. The name of Marisol Franco does not appear in either of the two lists.
On Tuesday the 21st of this month, the Attorney General’s Office, DNCD and DEA deployed raids and interventions that have left 10 people imprisoned and 14 fugitives. The United States has named nine people as major drug traffickers: Ramón Antonio del Rosario Puente (Toño Leña), Kelvin Enrique Fernández Flaquer (Cotto), Yaher Rafael Jáquez (Jake Mate), Bernardo Ant. Valdez García (Papi Cris), Natanael Castro Cordero; Jhonan Alexander Martínez Ureña; Boarnerges Sánchez Nolasco (Warnel) and Carlos Fernández.
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Listin Diario
28 August 2019