SANTO DOMINGO.- The location and confiscation of assets and properties of the Cuban Benítez brothers continues in the Capital as well as in the country’s East, whereas of their eight alleged partners, six are said to have direct bonds with the now fugitives wanted in the United States and in Dominican Republic.

Yesterday in Higüey (east), colonel Alejandro Dipré, liaison between the Dominican Government and the FBI, headed the confiscation of four trucks used for tours said to be worth US$75,000 each, allegedly owned by Oscar, Carlos, Luis and Jose Benítez, as well as two 2007 Audi luxury cars.

Meanwhile, the two motels confiscated in Higüey, the one in Bavaro and the other in the National District were reopened with new administrators appointed by the Justice Ministry.

Dipré, who heads the U.S. Embassy’s Special Investigations Unit, said for several months the foreigners were being for probed their numerous investment in the country, after they were accused of swindling the U.S. Medicare system out of US$110 million.

Copies of receipts quoted by newspaper Diario Libre show the purchase of 12 luxury apartments in the exclusive Malecon Center, wort an estimated US$1 million each, by the company H.B Inversiones del Caribe

Justice minister Radhamés Jiménez and Police chief Rafael Guzmán instructed Dipré and Anti-laundering Unit chief German Miranda to coordinate the effot to seize all of the Cubans’ remaining assets already identified.

SOURCE: diariolibre.com.do