SANTO DOMINGO.- Several drug traffickers convicted in the United States after extradition from Dominican Republic are demanding the return of their properties in the country, claiming the sentences in U.S. courts didn’t call their confiscation.
Most of them have been released on technicalities since Dominican law stipulates that to pave way for their extradition the prosecution had to drop the local cases against them.
The cases in which the authorities have been able to retain the seized assets are those where drug traffickers, after returning home, didn’t seek court rulings to recover them; where the Supreme Court ruling includes seizures, or where there is a legal agreement between the accused and U.S. and Dominican authorities.
Among the most important cases figure the drug trafficker and bachata singer Jose Arismendy Almonte-Peña (Joselito.com), who returned home in 2010 after serving several years in a Puerto Rico prison, and now demands the return of properties worth millions, some of which are currently occupied by institutions working to rehabilitate addicts.
As to Luis Eduardo Rodriguez Cordero (Eddie), also linked to the case of ex Dominican Army captain Quirino Paulino, the ex convict has also demanded the return of seized properties.
Quoted by eldia.com.do, the lawyer Jaime Terrero, who represented ex Police colonel Lidio Arturo Nin Terrero and Tirso Cuevas Nin, both linked to Paulino and who’ve been released after doing time in the U.S., said if the court which ruled for extradition didn’t order the confiscation of their properties, the prosecution must return them.
The Maconi case
The same situation is faced by alleged drug trafficker Ernesto Bienvenido Guevara Diaz (Maconi and El cuñao), extradited to the United States in 2010, and where the ruling to extradite him didn’t order the confiscation of his property, for which the man also linked to Paulino can claim his properties once he returns from U.S. soil.
Paulino’s assets
A 2008 agreement between Paulino and U.S. authorities, which led to protection for more than one dozen members of his family, included the confiscation of Dominican Republic properties valued at US$14.5 million.
Written by: lovingit, 19 Jun 2012 9:52 AM
From: United States, Delaware
So wait a second, they got extradited to be charged in the US, they went to trial, did some time or simply got let go, now they come back and these siezed properties now have to be returned back to them? Way to go uncle Sam in giving the DR the middle finger.
From: Puerto Rico
Who says that drug trafficking in the DR does not pay?
Contingency plans galore!
Written by: RoyStone, 19 Jun 2012 12:49 PM
From: Australia
narcokletocracy
From: United States
OMG..
That's Quirino, the main friend of JOSE ANO !
What both of you are doing now?
Written by: DaveB, 19 Jun 2012 4:25 PM
From: United States
The article clearly states that it was the Dominican courts or prosecutors who failed to file the correct paperwork. You have to be some kind of halfwit to blame another country for this.
Written by: BASTA, 19 Jun 2012 4:28 PM
From: Dominican Republic, =Ghetto/Legalize Drugs/Free abortions for all
good!
From: United States
So , my question to Basta , Juan B and Joseano...
With Quirino and Pepe Goico on the news today, , that means that we were in a white seal clapping hand narco PRD mafia goverment with Hipo clown.. right?
LOL
Querian PPH, cojan PPH !
__________________________
source: diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=128165
Written by: hvargas, 19 Jun 2012 9:30 PM
From: Dominican Republic
The question I will asked is, what does more harm to society: Government Corruption or Drug Trafficking? Take your pick. So here is the situation; the trafficker sells a couple of millions dollars worth of drugs outside of D.R.. He then invest in D.R. as well as buying personal properties. The U.S. then persecute that individual or individuals, the D.R. then formalized all of the so called legal documentations and seize the properties of the trafficker. In my opinion this is plain robbery. By comparison the corrupted official steal directly and indirectly the wealth that belongs to the people, enriching themselves with a luxurious lifestyle yet the focus is on something that its ills are pushed and created by the authority by making the traffickers turn on one another and thus creating a violent atmosphere. The real ills of societies are left untouched; corruption, liquor, cigarette, and wars. Dominicans are talking about everything except CORRUPTION.
Written by: RoyStone, 20 Jun 2012 7:34 AM
From: Australia
hvargas,
You are forgetting the main victims of the illicit drug trade, the people who are mugged and robbed by the addicts, to pay for their drugs.
Written by: danny00, 20 Jun 2012 10:16 AM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
wonder how much mr paulino had to pay mr hippo to become a captain?
mr hippo should have been put in handcuffs and sent to the states where he belongs in a federal court charged with drug trafficking.
great countery every one even the police and the army steal in one way or other.
and they bring their own crime wave to the people of the dr.
3rd world country? for sure if not 4th world.
all aboard the choo choo train.
dammmn!!!
Written by: danny00, 20 Jun 2012 10:21 AM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
You are forgetting the main victims of the illicit drug trade, the people who are mugged and robbed by the addicts, to pay for their drugs.
SO WHAT WOULD LIKE FOR THE IDIOTS TO DO? THEY KNOW NOTHING AND DO NOTHING PEOPLE,
STOLEN CARS FROM NEW YORK CITY SHIPPED BACK TO THE DR IN THE 70'S THEN CAME THE REAL ESTATE FRAUD IN THE 80'S AND NOW ITS THE DRUG TRADE,
BUT THE GOOD NEWS ALL OF THE 3 BUSINESS ARE STILL FLOURISHING TODAY IN THE DR AND OTHER COUNTRYS THEY TRAVEL TO.
CRIME WAVE.
ALL ABOARD LEOS CHOO CHOO TRAIN.
DAMMMN!!!
Written by: danny00, 20 Jun 2012 10:25 AM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
You are forgetting the main victims of the illicit drug trade, the people who are mugged and robbed by the addicts, to pay for their drugs.
DRUG DEALERS GIVE A S....T ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS TO OTHERS?
THE LOW-LIFES WOULD SELL TO THEIR OWN MOTHERS IF THEY COULD.
BUT ONE NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND IF THEY DONT SELL DRUGS OR SHOP LIFT IN DEPT. STORES IN THE STATES, THEN THEY NEED TO GO BACK TO BEING A SHOE SHINE BOY ON THE MALECON OR IN OR AROUND CENTRAL PARK.
DAMMMN!!!
Written by: danny00, 20 Jun 2012 10:31 AM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
they could as smart ass as they think they are go to
the harvard school of business or even better the harvard school of medicine.
choo choo train.
all aboard.
dammmn!!!
Written by: danny00, 20 Jun 2012 10:33 AM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
government corruption or drug trafficking
u cant have one in the scale as it is today with out the government backing u up.
corruption and drug dealing go together
just like beacon and eggs.
Written by: danny00, 20 Jun 2012 10:36 AM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
written by: basta, 19 jun 2012 4:28 pm
from: dominican republic, =ghetto/legalize drugs
good
good case for folks to see what really happens to ones brain after drug use.
this mr. basta his brain is fried, sure he was one nice guy before he started the drug use now just look at him today, its sad but true.
shoot all the drug dealers dead on the spot.
dammmn!! .
Written by: hvargas, 20 Jun 2012 6:27 PM
From: Dominican Republic
You never hear of a drug-driver that crashed into another car and killed so many innocent people, or the case of a women with her car filled with children colliding and killing everyone - an alcoholic. The hospitals throughout the world will tell you the real causes or the one killer and the second and third while street drugs are only mention cause they present a political climate. The numbers of cases affected by drugs ( street drugs ) are too small to compare against these other ills. Is true that an addict in order to continued feeding his or her addiction, will rob anyone but again here the statistics demonstrate a number too low in comparison to others reasons that the robber has. Most people caught and that are in jail, more than 95% are not addicts. There is a different between a casual user, a regular user ( weekend user ) and a daily user, this last being the addict. You have the rich addict and the poor addict. The drug trafficker does not in general get involve with
Written by: hvargas, 20 Jun 2012 6:46 PM
From: Dominican Republic
the rich drug addict or the poor drug addict. He sells in large quantities which somewhere along the line becomes available in smaller quantities. By the time it gets to the poor addict , the poor casual user or weekend user, the quality of the drug has been cut so much that it hardly reaches 20% of its original potency. The high is more psychological than physiological, for the poor addict, he or she needs a greater quantity. The rich addict on the other hand, he or she gets it more pure, to the tune of at least 70% of its original potency. The problem is not what is doing to society in general but rather why does the society crave for mind-altering anything. While one person find no harms in drinking a beer others may find it to be just as any other drug. Which is the case with me. The excuse for many is, well drugs are illegal or if you do too much of anything is no good for your boby, etc, etc,,, Someone famous is not treated the same as someone not famous..........
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Contingency plans galore!
That's Quirino, the main friend of JOSE ANO !
What both of you are doing now?
So , my question to Basta , Juan B and Joseano...
With Quirino and Pepe Goico on the news today, , that means that we were in a white seal clapping hand narco PRD mafia goverment with Hipo clown.. right?
LOL
Querian PPH, cojan PPH !
__________________________
source: diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=128165
You are forgetting the main victims of the illicit drug trade, the people who are mugged and robbed by the addicts, to pay for their drugs.
mr hippo should have been put in handcuffs and sent to the states where he belongs in a federal court charged with drug trafficking.
great countery every one even the police and the army steal in one way or other.
and they bring their own crime wave to the people of the dr.
3rd world country? for sure if not 4th world.
all aboard the choo choo train.
dammmn!!!
SO WHAT WOULD LIKE FOR THE IDIOTS TO DO? THEY KNOW NOTHING AND DO NOTHING PEOPLE,
STOLEN CARS FROM NEW YORK CITY SHIPPED BACK TO THE DR IN THE 70'S THEN CAME THE REAL ESTATE FRAUD IN THE 80'S AND NOW ITS THE DRUG TRADE,
BUT THE GOOD NEWS ALL OF THE 3 BUSINESS ARE STILL FLOURISHING TODAY IN THE DR AND OTHER COUNTRYS THEY TRAVEL TO.
CRIME WAVE.
ALL ABOARD LEOS CHOO CHOO TRAIN.
DAMMMN!!!
DRUG DEALERS GIVE A S....T ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS TO OTHERS?
THE LOW-LIFES WOULD SELL TO THEIR OWN MOTHERS IF THEY COULD.
BUT ONE NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND IF THEY DONT SELL DRUGS OR SHOP LIFT IN DEPT. STORES IN THE STATES, THEN THEY NEED TO GO BACK TO BEING A SHOE SHINE BOY ON THE MALECON OR IN OR AROUND CENTRAL PARK.
DAMMMN!!!
the harvard school of business or even better the harvard school of medicine.
choo choo train.
all aboard.
dammmn!!!
u cant have one in the scale as it is today with out the government backing u up.
corruption and drug dealing go together
just like beacon and eggs.
from: dominican republic, =ghetto/legalize drugs
good
good case for folks to see what really happens to ones brain after drug use.
this mr. basta his brain is fried, sure he was one nice guy before he started the drug use now just look at him today, its sad but true.
shoot all the drug dealers dead on the spot.
dammmn!! .