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Local March 3, 2015 | 8:36 am

Country’s once powerful drug-trafficking duo still bask in wealth

Santo Domingo.- What once was Dominican Republic’s most powerful duo of drug traffickers, and whose net worth which could well exceed RD$600.0 million (US$133.3 million) wasn’t confiscated when arrested, were extradited to the US and later convicted.

Quirino Paulino was the chief and Bienvenido Ernesto Guevara Diaz (Maconi) was the deputy of a drug trafficking structure which smuggled... Read more