The Ministry of Defence ordered the General Staff to hear Judgment No. 0030-04-2021, SSEN-00540 issued by the Third Chamber of the Superior Administrative Court, which orders the reinstatement of retired Colonel Pedro Julio Goico Guerrero (Pepe Goico), as well as the payment of lost wages and return to its natural state.
The information circulating in a document on social networks was confirmed by elCaribe when consulted with various reliable sources.
Pepe Goico was put into retirement by then President Leonel Fernández on August 30, 2004 by decree 1069-04.
Retired Army Colonel, Pedro Julio Goico Guerrero(Pepe), head of the military outpost and personal assistant of the former president, Hipolito Mejiawho governed the country in the period 2000-2004made headlines in the national press for the first time in 1997 when he was accused by the director of the National lotteryFrancisco Javier García, of being part of a group that allegedly committed prevarication, embezzlement, swindle and association of malefactors to the detriment of the institution, managing to steal more than 90 million pesosfact for which he was brought to justice on September 12 of that year and discharged from the file in 2004 by Lack of evidence.
By November 2002, Pepe Goicoas he is known, was suspended from his duties as security boss of former President Hipólito Mejía for his alleged involvement in embezzlement for more than 400 million pesos to Banco Intercontinental (BANINTER)years later the military would be accused of making millionaire withdrawals from Credit cards of the aforementioned bank assigned to the Presidency of the Republic.
On August 30, 2004, the then president, Leonel Fernández, retired Colonel Pepe Goico through the Decree 1069-04for September of that same year the now retired officer left the country bound for ParisFrance, with the purpose of carrying out some advanced studies, after knowing this action the authorities initiated an investigation because there was a exit restriction order of the country for the official who left the nation days after learning of the possibility that the lawyers of Pelegrín Castillo’s law firm would submit him for the use given to the credit cards of the already bankrupt bank BANINTER.
In July 2005 Pedro Julio Goico Guerrero was in Madrid, Spainwhere he was continuing his advanced studies when his arrest was ordered for his alleged bonding with the captain of the National Police and drug dealer, Quirino Ernesto Paulino, in addition to the use of money from drug trafficking. That same month the extradition order was processed with the Spanish authorities to return him to the country, by August of the same year the INTERPOL announced that it was collaborating in the execution of the process.
Later, almost a year after an arrest warrant was issued against him, on May 21, 2006, he arrived in the country and was immediately arrested for his alleged participation in activities related to money laundering from drug trafficking by the buysa year ago, from a hummingbird helicopter the sum of 600 thousand pesos paid by Goico who asked the seller of the aircraft to make the receipt for the purchase of the aircraft in the name of Jose Ramon Lopez. This vehicle would later be sold to Quirino Ernesto Paulinowho served a sentence in the United States for drug trafficking.
Also in 2006, Pepe Goico was sent to prison in The victory as a measure of coercion for the case that was heard in court, however, before the three months were up, he left after paying a bail of 10 million pesos imposed as a variation of the measure of coercion that complied imposed by the Judge Alexander Vargas.
The trial for this case ended up being postponed for 2007 when he was sent to a substantive trial -which was also postponed-, on this occasion Colonel Pepe Goico would give statements to the press affirming that he entered “Like a lion”referring to the charges of money laundering from drug trafficking (initial accusation against him in the file) and left “Like a little lamb” indicating the change in the accusation of the Public Ministry to a lighter charge. Already for 2008Pepe Goico, was also downloaded of this file due to lack of evidence.
