Spanish authorities are investigating the case of Spaniard Arturo Del Tiempo Marques, who is in custody in Spain in connection with a 1,200kg cocaine shipment. He is also being linked to a 935kg cocaine shipment that was confiscated at the Multimodal Port in Caucedo in the DR on 5 November 2009. The cocaine was hidden in a freight container consigned to Hisdomine, a company where Del Tiempo Marques appears as administrator in the company registration in Spain.
No one was arrested for that November shipment at the time, despite the fact that the head of the National Drug Control Department said that they were aware of the identity of the shipment’s intended recipient.
El Dia shares information that links travel by Del Tiempo and his son to shipments of his company to Spain.
Migration Department records indicate that Del Tiempo Marques traveled to Spain on 22 October 2009 (13 days after the confiscation) and returned on 9 November 2009 (4 days after the confiscation).
His son, Arturo del Tiempo Manzarbeitia traveled to Spain on 6 November 2009 (one day after the confiscation) and returned on 9 November (4 days after the confiscation). He also traveled to Spain on 3 March, 2 days after the confiscation of 1,200 kilos of cocaine at the port of Valencia.
El Dia reports that Del Tiempo Marques is known to have traveled to Spain twice in January. These trips coincided with the arrival of two other shipments in Spain that are being investigated on the suspicion that they were also used to transport cocaine. Del Tiempo’s departures on Iberia airlines to Madrid were on 4 January and 29 January 2010.