The whereabouts of Pedro Alejandro Castillo Paniagua (Quirinito) are not known. Castillo’s nickname comes from his being a nephew of infamous drug trafficker, former army colonel Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo.
But an investigation by the Attorney General Office confirmed what is vox populi. He is alive.
Originally sentenced to 30 years in jail for the murder of Spaniard Gustavo Adolfo Cervantes (Waikiki), Castillo Paniagua’s lawyers secured a ruling that reduced his sentence by 10 years. Next Castillo Paniagua was diagnosed with terminal cancer of the mouth and allowed by judge Aleida Jiménez Acosta on 26 May 2017 to keep domiciliary arrest at his home in San Francisco de Macoris, allegedly for humanitarian reasons so he could be near his parents. His wife-lawyer was named his guarantor. Not long after his house arrest was approved, a death certificate was issued that proclaimed the death of Castillo Paniagua.
Now the Attorney General Office says that an investigation shows he did not die of mouth cancer and that he is very much alive. An international arrest warrant has been issued against him.
The Attorney General Office suspended forensic doctor Orlando Herrera Robles who certified Castillo Paniagua’s death, allegedly due to a heart attack on 5 July 2017. A day after, a death certificate was issued and registered by the state.
Dozens of people were interviewed, including Castillo Paniagua’s father, Rafael Castillo Ramírez, who told the authorities that his son was not dead because he would have received the corpse.”
But Castillo Paniagua’s wife, Jennifer Domínguez declared to the authorities that her husband had died in the early morning hours of 5 July 2017, but she could not tell the authorities who had removed the corpse nor where he was buried.
The couple married on 22 February 2016 at the Civil Registry of the First Circumscription of the National District, according to a marriage extract Hoy newspaper reporters had access to. To enable the marriage, the judge in charge of his sentence, Willys de Jesus Núñez gave the authorization despite “Quirinito” being held at the Najayo jail, located in San Cristóbal.
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4 October 2017
