SANTO DOMINGO.- National Police chief Rafael Guzmán has been identified by Ruth Sanchez Vargas, the fiancée of the son of Arturo del Tiempo Marques, as a friend and associate of the Spaniard being held in his country charged with smuggling more than 1,200 kilos of cocaine from the Dominican Republic, news source clavedigital.com reports.

She said they took part in activities in the posh resort Casa de Campo together with their close relatives, and called it “a close relation” between Guzmán and del Tiempo.

Under interrogation by the Justice Ministry, copy of which news source clavedigital.com says it has access to, Sanchez reveals that as fruit of that relation with del Tiempo, the official “was going to buy an apartment” in the luxury building Torre Atiema, built by del Tiempo.

“With the entire family of the Police Chief we got to play together in a golf match in La Romana, and his entire family was there: there was Arturo (del Tiempo), Isabel (del Tiempo) and us. I hadn’t said this before because since the purchase of the apartment was denied, I don’t want to see myself involved in a situation…,” she said.

As to the now confiscated apartment retained by the Reservas bank, Sanchez said Guzmán “was going to buy the 18 East, the one which has a view the sea. That was the information my fiancée gave me that he was going to live there with his family and supposedly he would pay 900,000 dollars.”

In the interrogation of March 25 Sanchez reveals how she knew the foreigner and provides details of his family’s behavior, and the fact that she visited the building Atiemar at least 12 times and that she knew its security chief, nicknamed “Juancho el Loco (crazy person), but who is Jose Estévez, who as a lieutenant colonel who worked in San Francisco de Macorís (northeast) when Guzmán was that region’s Commander, and when the now Police Chief was called “the Surgeon,” for the numerous suspects maimed after agents shot off their kneecaps.