A creditable source revealed to El Nacional newspaper that the United States government has cancelled the tourist visa to San Cristóbal judge Willy de Jesus Núñez, who was suspended by the Judicial Branch Council for investigations into the escape of drug trafficker Alejandro Castillo Paniagua (Quirinito). The man’s nickname is because he is a nephew of convicted drug trafficker Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo.
The judge who has had his visa cancelled had authorized the transfer of Quirinito to the San Francisco de Macorís jail from where he later would get a court order allowing him to remain in domiciliary arrest, and from where he eventually was declared dead and reported missing when his cadaver was never located. Quirinito built a fake case through different levels of the the judiciary until he was declared terminally ill and then disappeared.
El Nacional said the same source did not reveal if San Francisco de Macorís judge Aleida Jiménez Acosta, who authorized the domiciliary arrest, also had her US visa cancelled.
On 5 July 2017 Quirinito would be declared dead by heart attack by forensic physician Orlando Herrera Robles. His medical report said he suffered from mouth cancer. This all turned out to be false, as later investigations would determine.
Quirinito had been sentenced to 30 years for the murder of Spanish citizen Gustavo Adolfo Cervantes (Waikikí) in San Cristóbal in September 2008. In 2013, he obtained a reduction of the sentence to 20 years by judges Orquis Celado González, Maria Cordero Segura and Niurka Laucer Martínez in Peravia province court. Cervantes had been suspect of the death of Army first lieutenant Guillermo Antonio Tejeda Kranwinkel, of the National Drug Control Agency who had been on his trail.
Afterwards, Quirinito would build a case for himself where his supposed terminal mouth cancer would enable him to receive domiciliary arrest, and then be declared dead for heart attack, enabling him to escape from the radar of local security forces that say his whereabouts are unknown.
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El Nacional
Diario Libre
13 February 2019
