{"id":115966,"date":"2018-08-29T08:02:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T12:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=115966"},"modified":"2018-08-29T08:02:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T12:02:30","slug":"luis-jose-asilis-out-of-jail-after-reaching-agreement-with-venezuelan-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/08\/29\/luis-jose-asilis-out-of-jail-after-reaching-agreement-with-venezuelan-investors\/","title":{"rendered":"Luis Jose Asilis out of jail after reaching agreement with Venezuelan investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_115995\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-115995\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-115995\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Alejandro-Vargas-List\u00edn-Diario-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-115995\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alejandro Vargas \/ List\u00edn Diario<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Judge Alejandro Vargas put on hold the legal case for fraud and ordered the release from jail of Luis Jos\u00e9 Asilis, after the later reached an agreement to pay US$1 million to Venezuelan investors who sued him for embezzlement of US$674,900 in the sale of land in Juan Dolio. Vargas has pending a case for tax evasion, fraud, criminal association and asset laundering with the Tax Agency (DGII). Asilis is a major shareholder in Grupo Metro hotel and transport companies and in Lajun Corporation, the former operator of the Duquesa waste dump.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the story in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/hoy.com.do\/disponen-libertad-de-luis-jose-asilis-tras-acuerdo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hoy<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/eldia.com.do\/juez-suspende-temporalmente-caso-de-estafa-contra-empresario-asilis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Dia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>29 August 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge Alejandro Vargas put on hold the legal case for fraud and ordered the release from jail of Luis Jos\u00e9 Asilis, after the later reached an agreement to pay US$1 million to Venezuelan investors who sued him for embezzlement of US$674,900 in the sale of land in Juan Dolio. Vargas has pending a case for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/08\/29\/luis-jose-asilis-out-of-jail-after-reaching-agreement-with-venezuelan-investors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}