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Former DNCD operations chief negotiated in the US

Hiraldo Guerrero cooperated with prosecutors in exchange for a four-year sentence

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Former DNCD operations chief negotiated in the US
NEW YORK. The former operations chief of the National Directorate for Drug Control (DNCD), Francisco Antonio Hiraldo Guerrero, cooperated significantly with the federal prosecutors, providing them with on revealed and possibly sealed information regarding international drug capos and drug traffickers a established in the Dominican Republic, according to a letter sent to the judge by the federal prosecutor of the Southern District, Preet Bharara.

The former military officer was given the light sentence yesterday, Tuesday afternoon, by judge John Keenan in the Federal Court of the Southern District in Manhattan.

Hiraldo Guerrero was extradited from the Dominican Republic to New York and was convicted in July 2014.

The sentence was supposed to begin in November of that same year, but because of the negotiations, it was postponed until yesterday.

"The authorities received significant cooperation" from Hiraldo Guerrero in exchange for the sentence which includes credit for time served in a federal jail in the United States, added the reports.

Contacted by this reporter, Ms. Dearden Down, a spokeswoman for the federal prosecutor's office in the Southern District of New York, declined to comment with respect to the cooperation by Hidalgo Guerrero.

Magistrate Keenan reprimanded the former officer of the DNCD, saying that "your crimes are inexcusable."

The now-convicted officer provided information to drug traffickers regarding movements of the Dominican antinarcotics agency and on the DEA team in the Dominican Republic, in exchange for millions of pesos which were paid as bribes.

The case file says that Hiraldo Guerrero was involved in drug trafficking from 1999 until 2010.

The prosecutors say that he helped the drug capos with the importing of hundreds of tons of drugs, among which were heroin and cocaine.

Hiraldo Guerriero admitted his participation in the crime and he told judge Keenan that "I am aware of my criminal acts; they have consequences of a jail sentence," speaking through an interpreter in Spanish during the reading of the sentence.

The former officer accepted US$1 million in bribes, added the prosecutor in the accusation, in order to maintain the drug traffickers well informed regarding the activities of the application of the law in the Dominican Republic.

"As a man, I admit and recognize the fact that I have violated the laws and as a result, any violation has its penalty," said Hiraldo Guerrero before the magistrate Keenan.

The convict had pled guilty on charges of conspiracy to traffic narcotics.

A letter sent to the judge by the federal prosecutor of the Southern District, Preet Bharara, details the cooperation of Hiraldo Guerrero with the drug authorities of the United States.

However the letter was sealed and this was also done with the details of the hearing for the sentence which was carried out behind closed doors in the federal courtroom.

Hiraldo Guerrero's lawyer, Jeffrey Cohn, also refused to make any comments.