After a meeting on Monday, 17 July 2023 with the adjunct prosecutor Yeni Berenice Reynoso, Miguel Arturo “Micky” López, who has charges against him for being part of a drug money laundering network, half-heartedly apologized to three journalists that had denounced they had been threatened by Lopez.
In his “apology,” Lopez did not admit his fault. He stated: “If I made a mistake with the press, I apologize to everyone and I do it with sincerity,” said the La Vega province businessman after leaving the meeting at the Attorney General’s Office.
Pedro Jimenez, Sergio Carlo and Alfredo de la Cruz placed their complaint with the director of prosecution, Yeni Berenice Reynoso, after receiving threats from Micky Lopez.
Communicators Pedro Jimenez, Sergio Carlo and Alfredo de la Cruz spoke out during the past week expressing that they had been threatened. Their revelations were made in the programs where they work, even publishing images and audios of the conversations and threats.
Diario Libre editorialized that the threats have but served to remind the Attorney General Office of the case pending against Lopez.
Meanwhile, the Public Prosecutor’s Office requested a coercive measure consisting of periodic presentation and an impediment to leave the country against Manuel Antonio Inoa Valdez, brother-in-law of Congresswoman Rosa Amalia Pilarte (PRM-La Vega) and who is accused of being a front man in the drug trafficking and money laundering network attributed to Miguel Arturo Lopez Florencio (Micky Lopez). The congresswoman is the wife of Lopez Florencio.
Pilarte accompanied her husband to the hearing at the Attorney General Office on Monday, 17 July 2023 regarding the threats denounced by the communicators.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office of La Vega says it is carrying out a financial investigation against the accused Inoa Valdez, due to the fact that he presents movements of an exorbitant amount of money that he cannot justify and has requested the declaration of the case as complex.
Diario Libre reports that the file of the prosecutors reveals that Inoa Valdez has mobilized in the financial system approximately RD$372.5 million and does not report any work activity registered in the Social Security Treasury (TSS). In addition, he is listed as a shareholder of a real estate investment company valued at around RD$100 million.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office emphasizes that, within the transactions of the accused, the ones with the highest amounts have as intermediaries the legislator Rosa Amalia Pilarte, two lending companies and Micky López.
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18 July 2023