Santo Domingo. - Several people linked to the murders in Bani, Peravia province (south), had paid as much as US$500,000 in bribes to be excluded from the case which the Police from the onset called "internacional drug trafficking."

The journalist Guillermo Tejeda, father of the murdered National Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) officer, Army lieutenant Guillermo Tejeda Krawinkel, made denunciation Wednesday night and asked the authorities to investigate it in depth.

He said he has information that bribes been offered during the investigations into the killing of narcotics traffickers in Paya Baní, by people seriously inloved in the case. “I leave this denunciation to the investigators so that they investigate well: it’s certain that there are people who paid 500,000 dollars to be left out of the Banì slaughter case.”

“I just want to leave that there so that it’s investigated because there’s no doubt bribes were paid,” Tejeda said in his program on RNN channel 27, and offers RD$1 million for information on his son’s March 3 murder in San Cristóbal (south).