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The Department of Taxes (DGII) reports that it has met 95% of its tax collection estimates last year. Revenues were said to total RD$151.42 billion. This includes an increase of 4.5% in sales tax (ITBIS) revenues. The DGII said that as of September revenues began to increase, with the gradual recovery of the economy. In …

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The Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena (UNPHU) will be holding a panel discussion on the topic of Legalization of Drugs in the DR. The issue is being discussed on the grounds that drug trafficking money has permeated the authorities, including the judiciary, and reducing the profitability of the industry would be one way of diminishing …

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In her editorial column in today’s Diario Libre, Ines Aizpun criticizes the soap opera slant the authorities appeared to be giving the case against fugitive drug trafficker, Puerto Rican Jose David Figueroa Agosto during a press conference held in Santo Domingo on Monday. “The case of Figueroa Agosto is a narco-political-military scandal,” she writes. “It …

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In today’s El Caribe, lawyer Marisol Vicens Bello comments that government officials remain untouchable in high-profile criminal cases. She mentions that while some powerful business and society figures have been sentenced, we have yet to see the first sentencing of a government official who allowed or was an accomplice in these acts. Neither have there …

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Presidential legal advisor on drugs, lawyer Marino Vinicio Castillo (Vincho) said “he did not like” the fact that the commission investigating the case of fugitive Puerto Rican drug trafficker Jose Figueroa Agosto had removed the two military officers who showed up at the scene of the assassination of former Police colonel Jose Amado Gonzalez Gonzalez …

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Judge Franny Manuel Gonzalez has sent Sammy Dauhajre to Najayo jail. Dauhajre is mentioned by the District National prosecutor as “fugitive drug trafficker Jose David Figueroa Agosto’s financial arm in the asset laundering operations. Dauhajre is a brother-in-law of Mary Pelaez, who is also in jail accused of being a front for the Puerto Rican …

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El Dia reports that an uncle of Puerto Rican drug trafficker Jose David Figueroa Agosto was arrested by the Navy on 6 December 209 when trying to covertly enter the DR on a boat with 6 other Puerto Ricans. Reportedly, Alex Manuel Rivera Figueroa, the uncle, arrived on Nena, in the company of Elvin Medina …

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National Drug Control Department (DNCD) agents have confiscated a shipment of cocaine hidden in zucchini that was due to be exported to the US via a Delta Airlines flight. The shipment had been packaged at an agribusiness company, Exportadora Pacheco Coronado. It was consigned to Pemberton Produce, located in Brooklyn, New York. DNCD chief Major …

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National Drug Control Department (DNCD) and Migration Department agents arrested two fugitives from Swedish justice in the city of Puerto Plata on Tuesday afternoon. The arrested are identified in El Dia as Safa Kadhum and Bulent Aslanoglu. They were being sought for their involvement in one of the greatest robberies in Sweden, where they made …

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The Escogido defeated Licey last night, 3-1 and is one game away from making it to the play-offs. Meanwhile, the Toros put down the Gigantes, 6-1 at La Romana’s Francisco Micheli stadium, but the Gigantes had already classified for the final play-off. The Toros led from the third inning. For more info on upcoming events, …

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