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Local December 20, 2017 | 1:44 pm

Venezuela: Casino owner heads ‘Malecón Cartel’

Santo Domingo.- Venezuelan authorities say that the owner of the Malecón Palace Casino, in Santo Doming, Yoel Palmar, heads the "Malecón Cartel," which smuggled drugs from Colombia to the Dominican Republic through Venezuela, and was arrested recently in Bogotá. Venezuelan prosecutor Tarek William Saab, said Palmar is behind several drug caches seized in the Dominican Republic, such as the 4... Read more

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