SANTO DOMINGO.- The properties seized from narcotics traffickers have become a burden for the Government and the greatest concern is in that many  of them get totally destroyed in warehouses and others are used personally by military and civilians, without the courts issuing definitive sentences.

Added to this is the lack of a regulation to apply the legislations in effect, and the fact that several organizations have the same attributions as far as managing the possessions of the accused.

Entities as diverse as the Justice Ministry and the Reservas bank and even the Agriculture Ministry indirectly participate in the dispersion, which prevents the authorities from controlling the situation and from evaluating the seized assets.

An inventory to know the value of the assets of the narcotics suspects found 1,180 confiscated items, among them apartments, houses, businesses, farms, lots, helicopters, speedboats, vehicles and even13 bicycles.

The president of the National Drugs Council (CND) Mabel Feliz and of the Committee on Money Laundering confirmed that the properties are mostly rented and on loan, as Assets Laundering Law 72-02 stipulates. She said the courts are slow in issuing definitive verdicts.