Jose Alfredo Rizek, the head of the Dominican Telecommunications Institute (INDOTEL), said that the 1,387 kilos of cocaine involved in the case against Quirino Paulino Castillo were discovered by DNCD agents thanks to phone taps authorized by magistrate’s warrants. He emphasized that the big cases that have received plenty of publicity were successful only as a result of legal phone taps. Rizek, speaking to reporters from El Caribe, pointed out that coordinated efforts between the DNCD, the National Department of Investigation (DNI) and INDOTEL permit such legal intercepts of phone communications. In each case INDOTEL officials need to obtain a judge’s warrant as required by Supreme Court Resolution #2043-2003. Rizek described recent complaints from some politicians as “shameless”, adding that, “When these same people get into office they do what they are decrying now”.