According to a report in the Listin Diario, former Colonel Pedro Julio “Pepe” Goico Guerrero’s departure from the country was legal as there was no legal impediment against him at the time. Goico left the DR on Sunday, 12 September from Las Americas International Airport, where he boarded an Air France flight to Paris. The newspaper says that the Migration Department staff on hand at the time said they are not able to remove or place travel impediments on anyone wishing to leave the country. These legal embargoes can only be removed from Migration data systems through the use of a secret access code known only by the department’s director. They told the newspaper that intelligence officers on duty at Las Americas knew that Goico was leaving because they visited the departure point at the airport and inquired if he had already gone. The Migration personnel who spoke to reporters refused to be identified, explaining that they could be fired for speaking to the press. The officers say that an impediment issued by former Attorney General Victor Cespedes Martinez that barred Goico from leaving the country was reactivated on 14 September.