The assistant prosecutor and coordinator of the Attorney General Office’s Anti-Drug Asset Laundering Unit, German Miranda Villalona says the authorities are on the trail of the illegal long financial arm of drug trafficking in the country. Miranda said they are looking to establish the source of the RD$6 million in bail posted by the two Colombian Buitrago brothers, who were arrested on drug trafficking and asset laundering charges. One of the lawyers who posted bail said that it was paid with the brothers’ own money, the other said that the money had been lent by a lawyer.
At the same time, the National District requested the preventive custody of brothers Huber Oswaldo Buitrago Ruiz and Angel Maria Buitrago Vacca accused of ID document forgery. The two had been in jail on preventive custody, but their lawyers secured court orders for their release on bail.
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