The authorities arrested Marisol Franco, wife of justice fugitive César Emilio Peralta (El Abusador) on Tuesday, 27 August 2019 at the home of the couple in Blue Tower in the Naco area of Santo Domingo. She was with her four children. The children were allowed to stay with relatives.
Peralta is accused of being the ringleader of a powerful international drug trafficking gang that sent cocaine and heroin shipments from the Dominican Republic to the United States and Europe.
Franco is charged of collaborating in the asset laundering scheme of the organization led by César Emilio Peralta “acquiring goods and benefiting from their illicit profits knowing that these came from drug trafficking.”
But upon making the arrest at her home in Blue Tower, National District prosecutor Rosalba Ramos said that the woman is being investigated and the fact that she is the wife of an accused does not make her responsible for her husband’s actions, as reported in Diario Libre printed edition on 28 August 2019.
When she was arrested, she was accompanied by her lawyer Joaquin Belisario who stated: “A wife has no criminal responsibility, but for her personal deed. She is calm, waiting for prosecutors to investigate the case. The fact that you have an arrest warrant does not criminally commit you,” said the attorney.
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28 August 2019