Judge José Alejandro Vargas of the Permanent Attention Office of the National District ordered the release of music promoter Yader Rafael Jáquez Araujo (Jake Mate) for lack of evidence presented by local prosecutors to keep him in jail.
Jáquez Araujo is included in the list of Kingpin Act-designated submitted by the US Treasury to local prosecutors. Jáquez was designated as a top official in the drug trafficking and asset laundering network allegedly led by César Peralta (César el Abusador). Jáquez Araujo had turned himself in on Friday, 2 September to face local charges. The US government has requested his extradition.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office had identified Jáquez Araujo as the right-hand man of César Emilio Peralta, and his drug trafficking and asset-laundering network. As reported in Listin Diario, the prosecutors had accused Jáquez Araujo of actively promoting and supervising nightclub properties of Peralta, and channeling funds from these into the financial system. The prosecutors had pointed out that the nightclubs Flow Gallery Lounge, Aqua Club, VIP Room were places used as meeting points to coordinate the laundering of assets from drug trafficking. In the local prosecutor file, Jáquez Araujo is said to have coordinated the personal security for César Emilio Peralta, given his military experience. Jaquez Araujo is a former Air Force officer. The prosecution said that for the security operations, Jake Mate used an ID that identified him as part of the presidential guard of the Primer Regimento Dominicano.
But apparently, the prosecutors did not prepare a good case, and Jáquez Araujo was permitted to go free.
Meanwhile, detective Angel Martínez protested on his YouTube program about the lenience of the Tax Agency (DGII) with the nightclubs that the US Treasury says were operated by the Cesar Emilio Peralta Drug Trafficking Operation. These includes those under Jake Mate. Angel Martínez is the same detective who months before the US filing of the Kingpin Act had announced on his YouTube channel that he was sharing his file on the drug trafficking and money laundering operations of the Cesar Emilio Peralta network with the US law enforcement agencies.
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5 September 2019