Wife of Figueroa Agosto sentenced to 5 years
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SANTO DOMINGO. The Second Court of Instruction of the National District sentenced Leavy Nin Batista, the wife of the accused drug trafficker Jose David Figueroa Agosto, to five years in prison on charges of criminal association, money laundering and the use of false documents.
The sentence will be suspended conditionally to two and a half years, according to the plea bargain agreed to by Nin Batista and the Justice Department. Nin Batista was sent to the model prison at Najayo.
For the suspended sentence to be applied, she must comply with the following conditions: She must learn a trade; she must submit to vigilance by the judge for the Execution of Sentences in the jurisdiction, which in this case is that of San Cristobal. Moreover, she must perform community service in a state institution or non-profit institution.
The judge also ordered the seizure of the assets as stated by the defendant that were acquired through money laundering.
The reading of the sentence began at 11:50 p.m. with the arrival of Judge Claribel Nivar, and it ended at 12:05 a.m.
At first, the verdict was supposed to be released at 4:00 o'clock in the afternoon, but it was postponed until 8:00 o'clock at night, at which time the defendant was transferred to the holding cell at the Palace of Justice until the time in which the decision was to be read.
In her first appearance after being transferred to the country from Spain, Nin Batista pleaded guilty to the charges against her. She said she was part of her husband's network which laundered assets that came from drug trafficking and which dealt in falsified documents.
The unique, sui generis, nature of the shortened penal process is the only case in which the Judge of Instruction is allowed to issue convictions during a penal process, having as the sine qua non requisite that the defendant admit the facts and plead guilty.
After accepting her guilt, Nin Batista testified that all of the persons that are being charged in the case had met with Figueroa Agosto.
In an appearance before the magistrate Nivar Arias, she said that Madeline Bernard and her murdered husband, the Police colonel Jose Amado Gonzalez Gonzalez, knew the identity of Figueroa Agosto and that Eddy Brito and his former wife, Sobeida Felix Morel, knew him as Ramon. She said that Brito had first met a brother of Figueroa Agosto.
The sentence will be suspended conditionally to two and a half years, according to the plea bargain agreed to by Nin Batista and the Justice Department. Nin Batista was sent to the model prison at Najayo.
For the suspended sentence to be applied, she must comply with the following conditions: She must learn a trade; she must submit to vigilance by the judge for the Execution of Sentences in the jurisdiction, which in this case is that of San Cristobal. Moreover, she must perform community service in a state institution or non-profit institution.
The judge also ordered the seizure of the assets as stated by the defendant that were acquired through money laundering.
The reading of the sentence began at 11:50 p.m. with the arrival of Judge Claribel Nivar, and it ended at 12:05 a.m.
At first, the verdict was supposed to be released at 4:00 o'clock in the afternoon, but it was postponed until 8:00 o'clock at night, at which time the defendant was transferred to the holding cell at the Palace of Justice until the time in which the decision was to be read.
In her first appearance after being transferred to the country from Spain, Nin Batista pleaded guilty to the charges against her. She said she was part of her husband's network which laundered assets that came from drug trafficking and which dealt in falsified documents.
The unique, sui generis, nature of the shortened penal process is the only case in which the Judge of Instruction is allowed to issue convictions during a penal process, having as the sine qua non requisite that the defendant admit the facts and plead guilty.
After accepting her guilt, Nin Batista testified that all of the persons that are being charged in the case had met with Figueroa Agosto.
In an appearance before the magistrate Nivar Arias, she said that Madeline Bernard and her murdered husband, the Police colonel Jose Amado Gonzalez Gonzalez, knew the identity of Figueroa Agosto and that Eddy Brito and his former wife, Sobeida Felix Morel, knew him as Ramon. She said that Brito had first met a brother of Figueroa Agosto.
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