The case against ruling Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) deputy Rosa Amalia Pilarte (PRM-La Vega) was postponed to be heard as of 13 February 2024. Despite accusations of laundering money for operations involving her husband Miguel Arturo López Florencio, who is accused of drug trafficking, the PRM has stood behind its deputy, and she continues in the position.
The judge of the second Penal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ), Francisco Jerez Méndez, rescheduled for 13 February 2024 the second phase of the trial against the representative Rosa Amalia Pilarte López, PRM-La Vega. She is accused of money laundering from activities derived from drug trafficking.
The postponement came after the Public Ministry asked the judge to decide on the inclusion of new documentary evidence witness, reported N Digital. The prosecutors seek to include evidence of 11,700 extasis pills seized in 2019. The drug catch is described as the largest holding of this kind ever seized.
This is the first hearing of the substantive trial phase against Pilarte López. She is being judged in the Supreme Court of Justice due to her priviledged status as a legislator.
State prosecutors say the deputy placed around RD$2.6 billion in the financial market from the activities of the alleged drug trafficking network.
She is also accused of tax crimes and violation of the Monetary and Financial Law.
Pilarte Lopez has complained that in the past her family was very respected as leading entrepreneurs, and now they are being demoralized.
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11 January 2024