November 17, 2009 BY GRACE. FREEDOM BEFORE THE COUNTER SCJ WEISSMAN
house arrest for one of the brains of "Operation Bell"
paid one hundred thousand dollars bail. Operation
Bell. In September 2006 achieved the seizure of some 350 kilos of cocaine.
The Justice granted the benefit of "house arrest" to counter Raúl Weissman, processed with imprisonment for "money laundering", as part of "Operation Bell." The counter had to pay a deposit of $ 100 000. Another businessman linked to the fisheries sector, was also released.
The resolution, adopted on Monday by the highest organ of the judiciary, provides home detention bail Weissman, upon payment of $ 100 000 as security for meeting the obligations imposed by the criminal process which is subject, judicial sources said REPUBLIC. Weissman was prosecuted by imprisonment in June 2008 by the then Criminal Judge 14th Time, Anabella Damascus for the crime of "money laundering." The counter was recognized one of the managers to conceal the capital raised by the organization of drug trafficking and marketing desvaratadas during procedures performed in September 2006. Weissman house arrest was requested by his lawyer, intending to end their detention in Central Jail. also the decision of the SCJ has the release to freedom of movement of Ki, a businessman linked to fisheries, processed by Article 31 of the Narcotics Act, which punishes the importation, exportation, distribution and transport of drugs . The central argument in granting the release of Korean-Uruguayan businessman was "Excessive detention" since it takes 3 years and six months in detention without trial. However, Ki is subject to criminal proceedings, so you can not change your address or leave the country, sources said. Both resolutions have already been reported to Judge Federico Alvarez Petraglia, current owner of the process, the sources said. Weissman's release and the Korean-Uruguayan entrepreneur "was not the first ready" by the judicial authorities on the record by which the important research organization led by the Colombian narco couple Alexander Garcia (see box), although this opportunity granted only these two freedoms. ministers Corporation rejected all the requests raised, again including the English businessman José Luis Suárez, prosecuted for the crime of "money laundering" and considered key part of the organization chart by the Uruguayan authorities.
"Operation Chimed" ("Bell" in English) was an anti-narcotics megadeals developed by the Directorate General for the Repression of Illicit Drug Trafficking (Dgrtid) in September 2006, which was seized some 350 kilos of cocaine with an estimated value of $ 10 million. Also disrupt the operation allowed two laboratories for drug and the seizure of weapons and vehicles. COLOMBIAN
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