The National District Prosecutor, Rosalba Ramos Castillo, denounced that she is the victim of threats and blackmail via WhatsApp from someone who claims to be related to Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo.
According to his complaint, the person tells him in messages that Paulino Castillo sent him to collect 13 million pesos that he allegedly gave him in 2005, as well as a judge of the Supreme Court of Justice (deceased) and other people, to avoid extradition to the United States.
Ramos Castillo stated this in a report sent to the Attorney General of the Republic, Miriam Germán Brito, to the Director of Prosecution of the Public Ministry, Yeni Berenice Reynoso, and the Attorney General of the Court of Appeals for the National District, José del Carmen Sepulveda, on April 14.
Four days after that report, Paulino Castillo went to the headquarters of the Attorney General’s Office without revealing the reasons for the visit.
Prosecutor Ramos Castillo explains in the report that the person tells her in messages via WhatsApp that of the 13 million, return four million urgently and that they are physically taken to the office of a dealer located on Avenida Nunez de Caceres from the capital.
She maintains that this message establishes that the money was delivered to Quirino’s brother, Danilo Paulino Castillo, and that otherwise, they would use other methods that do not involve communication.
“Happy days and we are willing to charge you on the ground and in the condition that you understand starting with the dialogue,” says the prosecutor indicating one of the messages.
The magistrate specified that the first message was received from a telephone number unknown to her and from a person who identified himself as Manuel, whom she decided to block because he insisted on paying the debt, even though he cannot always handle himself, in the formal financial system.
She explains that by blocking him, that person could write to him from another phone number. “Due to the aforementioned, as (on) the previous occasion, he proceeded to block this unknown number as well,” Ramos Castillo refers to in the communication sent to Germán Brito, Berenice Reynoso, and Sepulveda.
She says that this person used a third telephone number to continue sending threatening messages, with the warning that he had a period of 72 hours to attend to his payment demands.
The three telephone numbers that summon the magistrate have foreign area codes.
In the report, Ramos Castillo said he hoped that the origin of these messages would be thoroughly investigated and that her “physical integrity and that of her family” be preserved since she claims to be at risk.
The prosecutor recounts in the letter that she filed the complaint on April 13, in the Department of Attention System of this jurisdiction, to the fines that an exhaustive investigation is being carried out regarding the origin of the messages she received via email. WhatsApp.
She pointed out that the person writing to her indicates his relationship with Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo, who was in a criminal file in the jurisdiction of Santo Domingo Oeste, for violation of Law 50-88 on drugs and the Money Laundering Law of assets.
Prosecutor Ramos Castillo clarified that when Paulino Castillo’s process was investigated and disclosed in 2005, she was not a representative of the public ministry.
She also specifies that the same person claims to have spoken with her in 2016 at the Santo Domingo Oeste Prosecutor’s Office.
However, she clarifies that she took office as the interim National District Prosecutor in 2017, so all her assertions turned out to be a fallacy, devoid of any foundation.
Quirino process
Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo is a businessman and former army captain from the Dominican Republic and the head of a drug trafficking organization responsible for importing tons of cocaine into the United States until September 2003.
In 2004, Paulino Castillo was arrested in the country for a shipment of 1,387 kilos of cocaine, which was being transported to the northern part of the country.
On December 18, 2004, he stopped and discovered the truck containing the cocaine mentioned above, valued at $30 million, supposedly coming from Colombia.
The truck came from the country’s southern region and was heading to the northern industrial part, where it would be processed and sent to its destination, the United States.
