MIAMI-Latin Airforces learned that three airplanes seized from drug traffickers were dismantled and sold for parts, whereas 3 turbines of Dominican Air Force (FAD) fighter jets have vanished in the same circumstances. The Corruption Prevention Department (Depreco) said 4 turbines were sent to Miami under the pretext of repairs, though in what it described as a cannibalization process, it implicates the ex-FAD chief of staff Virgilio Sierra Perez, among other senior officers. Depreco Assistant director Hotoniel Bonilla said the investigation found that the intention was to sell those pieces to individuals in Miami and cites the case of one of the turbines, which was transferred to the Colombian Air Force for US$75,000.Mr. Bonilla told Latin Airforces via a telephone interview that the probe includes the whereabouts of an "endless number of parts" under the control of the FAD; 3 airplanes that had been seized from drug traffickers; 2 generators for A37 jet fighters, which allegedly ended up in a museum in New York, "so that what has taken place is the pilfering of assets pertaining to the Dominican State through the Air Force."
Latin Airforces also learned that implicated are the ex- colonels Eldito Méndez Casanova, Luis Benito Peralta Vásquez, Ricardo Cabral Vittini, as well as the civilians José Guillermo Vanderhorst, Manuel de los Sanos Mora Matos, Héctor Rafael González Guzmán, Ricardo Rojas, Tom Lotterman and Nicholas Bantell.
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