One of the defendants in the Panthera 7 case has become a powerful businessman, acquiring a fleet of more than 30 trucks, with which he imposed his power in Caucedo multimodal port and has luxurious apartments, a shopping plaza and another in the process of construction, the Public Ministry says in its request for coercion.
José Nicolás Castillo Hart (Nikito) studied information sciences and technologies at Unibe. He is the owner of the GWG transport company, involved in the case of the shipment of 9.8 tons of cocaine seized in said port terminal.
As described by the accusing body in its request for a measure of coercion, Nikito partnered with Winston Tejera, who was a driver and had two trucks, in addition to experience in the field of transportation, with which he managed to increase the fleet, from what his profits generated. drug trafficking activities, according to the MP.
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He adds that Castillo Hart had spent 18 months in prison for the death of a DNCD agent in 2017 and for that fact he was extradited from Colombia.
“It has apartments in luxurious sectors of the National District, and in the Boca Chica area, it also has a shopping plaza and another in the process of construction,” details the crime prosecution body.
He adds that he began by facilitating the logistics to bring the drugs into the port, but that later he also set up pools and also sent quantities of narcotics on a personal basis.
The day after the incident, December 6, he traveled to Spain, where the authorities allegedly monitored him with a passport as a national of the islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis, in the Lesser Antilles.
He drove BMWs and high-end vehicles and after the case broke out, he switched to a Honda Fit car.
Collection manager
The leader of the network, who allegedly was in charge of the collection and tried to send to Belgium the cache of 9.8 tons of cocaine seized last December, had been extradited in 2016 from Colombia to the Dominican Republic to be prosecuted for drug trafficking and the murder of an agent. of the National Drug Control Directorate (DNCD).
However, he was the beneficiary of a “no place” in 2018 by the Fifth Investigative Court of the National District.
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Castillo Hart was linked to one of the drug trafficking structures in the eastern region and was also being prosecuted for the murder of Army Sergeant Raymond Toribio García in 2011, who was assigned to the DNCD.
He Public Ministry He requested 18 months of preventive detention and a declaration of a complex case against the group. The hearing to request coercive measures was postponed to the 24th of this month to give those accused the opportunity to coordinate with their lawyers the technical and material defense that will face the accusations of the Public Ministry.
Panthera 7 defendants
The accused are José Nicolás Castillo Hart, alias Nikito; Winston Armando Tejera Rodríguez, alias Barbikin; Nelson Neftalí Mercedes Lugo, Cristian Rayner Canela Aybar, Enriquillo Luis Brito, Enrique José Luis Brito and Dulvi Jesús de los Santos.
