From the case of alleged corruption administrative operation Squid even those starring former drug traffickers Quirinus Ernesto Paulino Castle and Joseph Figueroa August have been placed on the list of estate confiscated by the Attorney’s Office General of the Republic (PGR), resources that were returned to the State Dominican in amounts amounting to 3,242,886,258 pesos and 1,417,600 dollars.
The resources and estate recovered were delivered to the National Custody Institute and Administration of Seized AssetsConfiscated in Forfeiture of Domain (Incabide), by the Attorney General of the Republic.
German Brito transferred, in addition to the aforementioned economic sum, the custody and administration to the Incabide of 58 apartments, 18 houses, a building, 10 properties, a Hotel, six estate, 26 commercial premises, 19 plots of land, four pieces of land, a villa, four aircraft and 238 vehicles, including cars from brands such as LamborghiniBMW and Mercedes Benz. 8,266,910 pesos worth of jewelry were also seized and handed over.
Of the 169 estatethe largest amount has been returned by the accused in the case of corruption administrative operation Squid with 28 estate.
In this case, the former officials of the Government of Danilo Medina, Donald Guerrero; former Minister of Finance and one of the “executing arms”, José Ramón Peralta; former administrative minister of the Presidency; Gonzalo Castleformer Minister of Public Works and 31 others accused and 12 companies.
Most of the assets returned in this case belonged to businessmen Ramón Emilio Jiménez Collie (a) Mimilo and Fernando Crisóstomo, as part of their agreement with the Public Ministry.
Main seizures
Of Squid Three apartments and a commercial premises have resulted in the National District; six plots in Villa Altagracia, 14 in La Vega and six in Higüey; a villa in La Romana and a house in the capital.
39 estate recovered those mentioned for cases of drug trafficking José Figueroa AugustPascual Cordero “the Chinese”, Quirinus Paulino Castle and Cease Emilio Peralta “the Abuser“.
TO Quirinus They took away eight properties and a building in San Juan de la Maguana and a house in the National District.
In relation to “Cease he Abuser”this delivered four apartments, a nightclub, a commercial premises and two estate in the National District; an apartment in Santo Domingo Este and land in Pedro Brand.
Figueroa August returned to State three apartments in the National District and one in Puerto Plata; a plot in Punta Cana and a house in Santo Domingo Norte.
What was returned to State that was in the hands of Pascual Cordero “el Chino” were two apartments, two plots and two houses in the National District; an apartment and a house in Santo Domingo Norte and land in Santo Domingo Este.
The case Ferrer Abbot who appears in the table with about 25 estate recovered has been aired for more than a decade. This international network of drug trafficking and money laundering was directed from Spain by Gustavo Andrew Ferrer Castle and had Eddy Antonio Abad as a front man in the Dominican Republic, who received the money, while his brother Juan Pablo made the investments.
To Joseph Calderon Rijo, alias “the Spider”, from whom three estatein 2010 he was sanctioned by the United States for money laundering, drug trafficking and corruptionwas linked to the show through the company Grari Productions, which represented several artists. Two years later, in December 2012, Calderon Rijo was arrested after an operation by the Directorate National of Drug Control (DNCD) carried out in the Peravia province, where 10 kilos of cocaine were seized, along with three Colombians.
The delivery of these estate It occurs one year after the promulgation of the Law 60-23 on the Administration of Kidnapped, Seized and Abandoned Assets in Criminal Proceedings and in Asset Forfeiture trials.
This first delivery to Incabide not only included estate confiscated at “corruption”since they were also delivered estate kidnapped and confiscated for other crimes typical of organized crime such as drug trafficking and money laundering, so the amount of the estate confiscated in general is much greater than 3,200 million pesos, reported the Ministry Public.
The Custody Directorate and Administration of Seized Assets of the Ministry Public had under his supervision at least 312 estate confiscated that had sentences ordering confiscation, of which 143 already have property titles and the others are in the process of issuing a title in favor of the State Dominican.
“For me it means a special satisfaction to know that something that has been the product of a crime goes to something like a redemption for the marginalized, like a court in a neighborhood, having a community house, that has an extraordinary value,” said Brito.
German Brito emphasized that by complying with the provisions of the new Law 60-23 and transfer the estate and estate to the body in charge of administering them, the intention of its management to break unfavorable schemes and act under a new culture of transparency, effectiveness and efficiency in the actions of the Ministry Public.
