SANTO DOMINGO.- In the money laundering case against the alleged members of the network headed by Puerto Rican kingpin Jose Figueroa Agosto on Thursday, the hearing began with prosecution witness Dante Luna, a designer who testified having remodeled for more than RD$5000,000 pesos, the apartments belonging to the codefendants Sammy Dahuajre and Dolphy Peláez, in their residences in the sector La Castellana.

In the proceeding being held in the National District Collegiate Court, Luna said he was hired by Dahuajre, Peláez and the also defendant Ivanovich Smester, to remodel floors, studios, swimming pools and baths in their respective apartments and revealed that the work done for Peláez cost RD$3 million.

The witness said he met Figueroa as Felipe de la Rosa, in the house of Mary Peláez, Dolphy’s sister, two of the daughters of the late humorist Milton Peláez, murdered several years ago in as yet unclear incident involving money reportedly I the hundreds of thousands deposited in a major bank.

 in a meeting in which the Puerto Rican served as an adviser remodeling to be done in Dolphy’s residence.

Luna concluded his testimony by revealing that one week before “the famous mess exploded,” in reference to the case, he and Figueroa went to buy a Jacuzzi with integrated TV which the Puerto Rican wanted to install in one of the apartment’s bathrooms. “He (Figueroa) asked me about buying a sports car worth US$400,000 in the restaurant Sofia, around one week after the famous mess exploded.”