DNCD says no case Sinaloa cartel

The national drugs Control (DNCD) yesterday refrained from commenting on the complaint concerning the alleged involvement of the Sinaloa cartel in the country by the Dominican Ambassador in United States, Anibal de Castro, after claiming that they had not received the paper read before the Senate Committee for the International Control of the drug trade by the diplomat.

So, the head of the national police, major general José Armando Polanco Gómez, to give its opinion on the matter, not confirmed or denied the allegation, but insisted that it will not have space any cartel that tries to operate in the country, as the authorities will act before any circumstance.

Ambassador Anibal de Castro noted that a Mexican named Luis Fernando Castillo Bertolucci, confessed after being captured that the Sinaloa cartel "seeks to create a route to Europe via Dominican Republic".

Diplomat linked this organization, that u000aIt could be operating in Santiago, La Vega and Jarabacoa, with the recent murders of three Colombians, a Spanish and a Venezuelan, and noted that the Sinaloa cartel can "be receiving help from Dominican criminal groups in the Cibao region to acquire chemicals used in the manufacture of narcotics".

"Can not make comments because it was a diplomatic matter, because the foreign subject comes out of the framework of the competence of the DNCD, and foreign policy, as we know, headed the President of the Republic," said the spokesman for the DNCD, Roberto LeBron, through a press release.

LeBron noted that "by not have at hand the document which formed the basis the Ambassador to make his statement, not we can enter into considerations".

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