SANTO DOMINGO. The District Attorney of the National District and the National Department of Drug Control (DNCD) carried out at least 6 searches, including one in the Torre Atiemar, located in the La Esperilla sector, in search of proof that will lead them to arrest the persons responsible for the consignment of 1200 kilograms of cocaine that reached Spain last week from the Dominican Republic.

With relation to the occurence, there is one person detained whose identity was not revealed by the authorities that carried out the arrest and the searches.

The Torre Atiemar belongs to a consortium of builders that have constructed major projects in the capital.

Yesterday, the authorities continued searching residential sectors looking for the persons responsible for the 1,200 kilograms of cocaine sent to Spain.

While the searches were going on, the Attorney General of the Republic, Radhames Jimenez Peña, the head of the DNCD, Rolando Rosado Mateo, the assistant Attorney General Frank Soto and other officials held a meeting at the Attorney General's offices.

Sources said that investigators from the United States took part in the meeting and discussed their views regarding the behavior of the drug trafficking. They analyzed the ramifications of what could be an international network that is dedicated to move drugs and launder hundreds of millions of pesos in assets.

They also talked about the presumed connections that the owner of the cocaine shipment have in this country.

The list

Although the list of persons supposedly wanted for extradition by the United States authorities has surfaced, sources assured the Diario Libre that there are still more requests that have not been received as yet by the Attorney General.

The lawyers for the former captain Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo said that the government of the United States cancelled the visas of more than 10 generals, who are now retired, because of their alleged ties to this case.

The United States request

According to statements by lawyers Felix Olivares and Freddy Castillo, who represent the defense of Quirino, they indicated that of these more than 10 generals some are now in retirement and "in the shade" and others have been removed from their commands.

They asserted that these officers will also have to be extradited to the United States "because everyone that has taken part in criminal activities that affect Washington eventually have to be brought to the US".

De Diario Libre