11. Pepe Goico acquitted
Former military colonel Pedro Julio (Pepe) Goico Guerrero has been
acquitted of money laundering charges related to the Quirino Paulino
narcotics trafficking case. Hoy re****ts that the National District
Third Tribunal Court has found that there was not enough evidence to
charge Goico and Ernesto Guevara Diaz. Goico had been charged with
covering up the owner****p of a Colibri helicopter, which was actually
owned by Paulino while Guevara had been charged with coordinating the
transfer of more than 1,300 kilos of pure cocaine in 2004. In related
news, the same court found Paulino's wife, Belkis Elizabeth Ubri,
guilty of money laundering. Hoy writes that the court felt that Ubri's
businesses, which she owned with her husband, were moving
unjustifiably large sums of money. The Courts sentenced her to five
years in jail and a fine of 50 minimum salary payments and has ordered
all her assets to be seized.
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