August 11, 2024, 4:00 AM
August 11, 2024, 4:00 AM
The final verdict is awaited in a Santa Cruz court in a controversial case. Only the judge was present at the hearing Claudia Liliana Rodríguez Espitia, the Colombian citizen accused of money laundering. The case dates back to 2010. According to the reports presented at the trial, the accused must answer for the possession of $us 30 million. The case also involves Maximiliano Dorado Muñoz Filho and Jhon Wilson Díaz, the latter imprisoned in Paraguay.
The hearing exposed former Minister of the Presidency Juan Ramón Quintana and former Miss Bolivia Jessica Jordan. A report by the Brazilian magazine Veja, which uses as support an Intelligence report from the Special Force to Fight Drug Trafficking (Felcn), claims that both were in the Dorado’s house. The magazine also states that the aforementioned authorities left the house carrying two suitcases with money.
In a voluminous file, from the Felcn and the Prosecutor’s Office for Controlled Substancesthe history of the traffickers Maximiliano Dorado Muñoz Filho is recordedimprisoned in Brazil; Colombian Jhon Wilson Díaz Velez, detained in Paraguay; and others declared by the courts as rebels, within a process for international drug trafficking.
The First Sentencing Court, of judges Moisés Colque, Jesús Egüez and Lucio Condori, is carrying out the oral trial promoted by the Anti-Narcotics Prosecutor’s Office, which He accused several people of the crime of money laundering and drug trafficking.
This Friday, the judges closed the case’s conclusions, with the presence of prosecutor José Luis Flores, as well as some of the defendants and their defense attorneys, and representatives of the Vice Ministry of Transparency.
This is the judicial story
According to the Felcn and the Prosecutor’s Office, the accusation for oral trial dates back to December 29, 2010. The Prosecutor’s Office accused Colombian Claudia Liliana Rodríguez Espitia, American businessman Jacob Ostreicher, and two other people who were removed from the process due to the extinction of the action, of money laundering of illicit profits.
Claudia Liliana Rodríguez Espitia attended the closing hearing. According to the Prosecutor’s Office and the Felcn, it is accused of moving almost 30 million dollars. She, through her lawyer Álvaro La Torre, maintained her innocence, arguing that these funds are legal investments.
The businessman Jacob Ostreicher was declared a rebel, so according to the norm no ruling will be issued against him. The judges set the reading of the final ruling for the 21st of this month.
The drug lords
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the main defendants for drug trafficking and criminal organization have been declared rebels, but are in prison in other countries. They are Maximiliano Dorado Muñoz Filho and Jhon Wilson Díaz. The first, of Brazilian nationality, has been in Santa Cruz since 2010.
Veja magazine, in the report entitled “The Republic of Cocaine”, on January 4, 2011, noted that Maximiliano Dorado, wanted in Brazil for international drug traffickingarrived in Santa Cruz where he led a criminal network of drug traffickers.
On November 18, 2010, according to a report from the Felcn Intelligence, the former Minister of the Presidency, Juan Ramón Quintana and the former Miss Bolivia Jessica Jordan, then director of Ademaf, arrived at his house on Pachiuba 184 street. They were seen with two suitcases with moneyMaximiliano Dorado was not arrested, but years later he was extradited to Brazil. From Dorado’s house, the Felcn seized a safe with money, jewelry, and a diamond ring worth 50 thousand dollars.
In early 2011, Jhon Wilson Díaz was accused by the Felcn of leading a drug ring in Santa Cruz. He even played soccer every weekend with a former president and a former mayor, in a country house in Valle Sánchez, which was seized from him, but he was never arrested.
Five years ago he was detained in Paraguay for drug trafficking. Felcn reports revealed that Wilson Díaz is responsible for sending 944 kilos of cocaine to Spain, in a narcojet that took off from a military airport in Argentina.
The First Court declared Dorado and John Wilson Diaz rebels; they will not be included in the sentence to be handed down.
The only one who is attending the trial is Claudia Liliana Rodríguez, but is being tried for money laundering.
The trial will conclude on the 21st of this month, where Rodriguez is being tried for the movement of almost 30 million dollars of dubious origin. According to the Felcn and the Prosecutor’s Office, Rodriguez had ties to Dorado.
The Felcn and the Prosecutor’s Office record that on October 30, 2009, a check for 100 thousand dollars was drawn from Rodríguez’s account for a payment to Díaz, which was cashed by a former mayor of Warnes.
