2019 – Page 100

A Santo Domingo judge has handed down a year in preventive custody as coercive measures against those accused in the case of the confiscation of the 484 kilos of cocaine at the Caucedo Port and has declared the case to be complex. The sentence was against the accused men, José Alberto de Jesús, Julio Francisco …

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The Court of First Instance of Montecristi ordered on the evening of Friday, 20 August 2019 pretrial custody for six months against former Montecristi prosecutor Carmen Lisset Núñez and four former National Drug Control Agency (DNCD). They are accused of planting drugs in a barbershop in Villa Vásquez. Meanwhile, the barbershop says business is bad. …

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Investigative journalist Nuria Piera has presented insights into the costly taste of now accused Cesar Emilio Peralta. The United States Treasury presented evidence of drug trafficking and money laundering activities and designated Peralta and eight accomplices under the Kingpin Act. The US shared the file with the Dominican Republic that a month later would carry …

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The spokesman for the Police, Colonel Frank Félix Durán Mejía confirmed on Monday, 26 August 2019 that he is paid for collaborating with the MLB for over 10 years. This was not publicly known until the Boston Globe reported on the possible conflict of interests in the case of the shooting of retired Boston Red …

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Radio and TV host and marketing expert Pablo Timoteo Ross was sentenced to 10 years in jail and RD$2 million penalty for sexual abuse of his stepdaughter. He was ordered to serve the term in the Najayo Men’s Jail. The First Collegiate Court of the National District determined the sexual abuse had begun in 2014 …

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The Central Electoral Board (JCE) is investigating the ID allegedly issued to fugitive drug capo Cesar Emilio Peralta in the name of Eduardo Saldaña Rodríguez. The JCE has preliminary information showing he had two IDs with the same photograph, one with the name Cesar Emilio Peralta and another under Eduardo Saldaña Rodríguez. The JCE explained …

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The Bil on Confiscation of Illicit Property (Extinction of Dominion) is still pending in the National Congress. Listín Diario reports that the Senate has already approved the second reading, but included changes that mean it returns to the Chamber of Deputies for approval. The bill (Ley sobre Juicios de Extinción de Dominio para el Decomiso …

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The Centro para la Educación y el Desarrollo (Ceduca) has published findings of a study on youth employment in the Dominican Republic. The findings indicate that more than 20% of the population aged 15 to 29 is not studying or working. Alba Reyes, director of Ceduca said the study, “Dominican Young People, Those Unknowns” reveals …

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Guillermo Moreno of AlPaís and Minou Tavárez Mirabal of Opción Democrática formalized the merge of the two minority parties. Tavárez Mirabal announced her political movement would be backing the presidential aspirations of Guillermo Moreno. In her words at the event marking the merge, Tavárez Mirabal said: “We have come this far to present a new …

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The Central Electoral Board (JCE) will divide the country into five regions for the primaries on 6 October 2019 to ensure that the event runs smoothly. 7.4 million Dominicans are eligible to vote in the primaries of the two main political parties, the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) and the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM). The initiative …

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