Santo Domingo.- Armed Forces minister Rafael Antonio Peña yesterday revealed that a lieutenant colonel and a major are being questioned for the case of the Puerto Rican murder convict José Figueroa Agosto and that both are being held in their military branch.

With those two, there are now four officers detained in the case, including the ones held in the Antinarcotics Agency (DNCD) jail since the beginning of July.

The official however refused to reveal the names of the two officers, one of the Army and the other of the Air Force. "We don’t offer names because we are in a very complex phase  of investigation and I hope that you understand this."

Peña spoke to the journalists in the First Army Brigade headquarters, where he accompanied to president Leonel Fernandez in the ribbon cutting for two cafeterias for officials.

"We are in stand by as we say, they haven’t  been fired yet," he said, adding that in the last two years the Armed Forces have fired more than 2,000 military, many  them involved in drug trafficking and the rest for various crimes, extortion, among others.