SANTO DOMINGO. - Peravia province senator Wilton Guerrero yesterday said the government has yet to dismantle the “drug trafficking machinery” in the country, and asked the immediate transfer of the National Drugs Control Agency’s (DNCD) entire precinct in Baní (south), whose members he again accused of serving narcotics trafficking.

Speaking after a ceremony to recognize newspaper El Caribe, the legislator asked Justice minister Radhamés Jiménez to designate a commission to investigate what he said is a crisis Bani’s Office of the Prosecutor, where Assistant prosecutor Rosa Julia Batista resigned during the very hearing in which she accused Peravia province prosecutor Robert Lugo of conspiracy with drug traffickers. “Here the drug trafficking machinery is intact. The narco-traffic machinery hasn’t be dismantled, not in Baní, not in the country”

The ruling party PLD legislator’s denunciations in the las few months accusing civilian, military and Justice Ministry officials of having links to drug traffickers have rocked the country. “It’s evident that the Office of the DNCD is compromised with drug trafficking in Peravia province.”