The former perremeistic deputy for La Vega, Rosa Amalia PilarTe López, was given to the Public Ministry this morning, after the persecuting body placed it in the list of fug as, because he had refused to appear to that body in charge of the state’s criminal policy, despite the judgment of the plenary sentence of the Supreme Court of Justice that ratified a sentence of 5 years of prison from drug trafficking.
Pilarte will be presented before the judge of execution of the penalty to order his transfer to the Correctional and Rehabilitation Center Rafey Women, where he must serve the five -year sentence that was imposed for money laundering.
Conviction
5 days ago, the five -year prison sentence to the defendant was confirmed.
The Plenary confirmed the judgment of the Second Criminal Chamber of the SCJ, which acted as a privileged jurisdiction, which in its entirety rejected the appeal initiated by the accused.
ROSA AMALIA PILARTE LÓPEZ delivered to the Public Ministry after being listed as a fugitive for money laundering
Pilarrte López was accused of being part of the drug laundering network of drug trafficking headed by her husband Miguel Arturo (Micky) López Florencio, of which his children José Miguel López Pilarte and Miguel Arturo López Pilarte were also part, as well as those declared in rebellion Pablo Antonio Martínez Javier and Rigoberto Bueno Javier.
Full
Similarly, the SCJ body also kept the payment of a fine equivalent to 200 minimum public sector salaries for infractions to Law 155-17 on money laundering to the detriment of the State and the confiscation of 13 real estate located in La Vega.
The plenary established that the arguments of the defense, which attributed the illegal activities to acts after the deportation of the drug trafficker Pablo Antonio Martínez Javier in 2009, lacked the foundation.
Martínez Javier, according to the Public Ministry, is the “leader and sponsor of the International Criminal Network dedicated to the traffic and distribution of ecstasy”, to whom Pilarte’s family is linked.
According to the ruling, it is verified that the accounts of the accused registered millionaire movements since 2001 and that, although he declared income for approximately RD $ 16 million between 2003 and 2021, he mobilized in his accounts more than RD $ 4.4 billion, a discrepancy with his declared economic activity.
Gathered room
The 16 judges gathered rejected the appeal of former deputy Rosa Amalia Pilarrte López, a decision that, according to the Public Ministry, will allow the State to seize movable and immovable property valued in billions of pesos product of money laundering.
The persecuting body highlighted, through its investigation unit, that with the decision already acquires the authority of the thing irrevocably judged the sentence against Pilarrte López, issued on May 28, 2024, by the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice in Functions of the Court of Judgment of the privileged jurisdiction.
SCJ Plenary
The Plenary of the Supreme Court of Justice, headed by its president, Luis Henry Molina, ordered that the convicted person fulfilled at the Center for Correction and Rehabilitation (CCR) of Rafey Women, Santiago Province, after declaring her guilty of money laundering from drug trafficking.
