SANTO DOMINGO.- The Second Court of Instruction in La Vega changed the measure of coercion against Miguel Arturo López Florencio (Miky López) and two other alleged members of a drug trafficking and money laundering network. The judge ordered that the electronic shackles be removed and in return imposed periodic presentation.
In addition to Miky López, José Miguel and Ada María Pilarte also had their bracelets removed, and they were required to appear regularly before the Public Ministry.
The prosecutor of La Vega, Aura Luz García, is waiting to be notified of the decision to appeal on appeal with the aim of placing the shackles on the accused again.
According to the Public Ministry, Miky López heads a criminal organization dedicated to international drug trafficking.
Along with López, his two children, Miguel Arturo López Pilarte and José Miguel López Pilarte, as well as Ada María Pilarte and José Antonio Román, as well as the companies Auto Crédito Selecto, SRL., Servi Crédito Selecto, SRL., Agropecuaria Gloria Ivette, were accused. , SRL. and Gloria Ivette Real Estate, SRL.
According to the accusation of the Public Ministry, all these companies are front and folder, whose operation was disguised to place in the national financial system billions of pesos and dollars obtained from drug trafficking activities.
Due to his participation in this network, Miky López’s partner, the extradited Pablo Antonio Martínez Javier, who was sentenced in the United States in 2009 for drug trafficking, remains a fugitive.
