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SANTO DOMINGO.- The National Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) yesterday raided the exchange business Los Angeles in the heart of the Capital, and arrested three other people in connection with the bust of a Dominican-Colombian money laundering and drug trafficking that according to the authorities moved millions of dollars out of the country in the last two years.
Identified as one of the most powerful money laundering organizations of the last few years, its ringleaders were detained after an almost two-year joint probe by the DNCD and the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), which detected illicit money transfers in New York realised through the Valher exchange business raided last Tuesday.
In the Agente de Cambio Los Angeles, located in the shopping plaza Paseo Winston Churchill, Esmeraldo Rodriguez, Yarit Saviñón and another unidentified person were arrested and documents related to the case were seized.
One of the ringleaders was identified as Tomas Valdez, executive of Valher exchange, a business in which his son Tomas Valdez allegedly participated, arrested in New York.
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What they left out = "...that is not associated with the urban construction sector."
it must be legitamate because Diandino Pena is involved in most of them somhowe
Oh maybe one or 2 buildings have legitamite backing but not the majority of construction in Santo Domingo.
That is also why you see the construction schedules go like this:
1) dig big hole
2) throw down copious amounts of concrete
3) sprinkle with rebar
4) let bake in the sun for years...emplty.
It is really easy to "miscalculate" how much dirt you dug out of that hole, how much cement you later threw down it. Likewise difficult to check how much rebar you planted inside that concrete. Windows, doors, toilets, ceramic floors etc.....much more difficult to lie. So:
1) terribly overbill yourself from your brother's company for excavation, cement, and steel,
2) declare a profit
3) send check to bank in Spain
4) buy yourself an award ceremoney and plack and kick back with a whiskey and tell everyone what a f$#%ing genius you are
They also loved Pablo Escobar to death.
no, let me rephrase that - ?!?