The Attorney General’s office Money Laundering Unit has named Colombian Huber Oswaldo Buitrago Ruiz as one of the alleged heads of the international money laundering gang that was dismantled in the Dominican Republic last week. They also said that Buitrago ordered and supervised the huge amounts of money in double-bottomed suitcases that were used to send the money from the DR to Panama, Colombia and Venezuela. They allegedly used Colombian, Venezuelan or Panamanian nationals who belonged to the network to carry the money. These people also came to the Dominican Republic for short stays in order to carry away the suitcases full of money but hidden from inspection.
The Attorney General’s agency added that they also carried out part of the gang’s drug trafficking activities. In the meantime, they are linking Colombian Angel Maria Buitrago Vacca, as another of the alleged bosses of the network. He is also accused of involvement in the drug trafficking operations as well as allegedly ordering and supervising the shipments of huge quantities of money from drugs hidden in the double-bottomed suitcases together with his brother, Huber Oswaldo. Diego Maria Guzman Arango (Mara and Maradona) is said to be the person in Venezuela who received the members of the organization who arrived there from the DR with cash hidden in the suitcases.