SANTO DOMINGO.- National District prosecutor Alejandro Moscoso on Tuesday revealed that a file is missing in the money laundering case against Manuel Emilio Mesa, alias El Gringo.

“What’s more a challenge filed before the Supreme Court of Law has also disappeared," the official said, just days after Sobeida Felix, the alleged paramour of the Puerto Rican fugitive Jose Figueroa Agosto, also “vanished.”

He said the assistant prosecutors who were handling that piece will be interrogated.

The official said a provisional file of another case, in 2007, can be reactivated and may request a fusion with Mesa’s current case.

Upon leaving Moscoso’s office, where Mesa was interrogated in connection with a claim of alleged bribes to police officials in exchange for protection, Police chief Rafael Guillermo Guzmán said the drug trafficking and money laundering suspect had denied the allegation.

The Police Chief affirmed he isn’t satisfied with the response and will continue the investigation jointly with the Justice Ministry.

The interrogation in Moscoso’s office lasted more than one hour after which Mesa was taken under strict security measures to the jail at Najayo. He was arrested while driving a luxury vehicle with more RD$4 million, though the case stemmed from the confiscation of more than RD$50 million in the Solano exchange house.

The Office of the Prosecutor investigates a series of properties of the alleged head of micro-traffic in the sprawling barrios of north Santo Domingo.