Santo Domingo. – The Supreme Court of Justice approved the extradition of Francisco Alberto Cedeño Amparo, Dominican sentenced in Puerto Rico to 114 years in prison for homicide and attempt to murder.
The conviction had escaped in 2008 while being transferred to a court of San Juan To listen to the reading of the sentence by the death of a man and wounds caused to a woman.
After his flight to rDominican Epublicwas arrested in 2016 after Puerto Rican authorities issued an international alert.
The process of extradition It was requested by the Public Ministry and welcomed by the Second Chamber of the SCJ, composed of the judges Francisco Antonio Jerez Mena, Fran Euclides Soto Sánchez and María Garabitito Ramírez, who validated that the petition complied with the national norms and current international treaties.
The decision orders Attorney General’s Office Process the delivery and coordinate with the Executive Power the issuance of the decree that will make extradition effective. Meanwhile, Cedeño Amparo will remain in preventive detention.
He Public Ministry He stressed that this case strengthens international cooperation in the fight against organized crime and transnational crime.
