January 9 2009

Foreigner will go to jail for ‘selling’ the Hotel Jaragua

SANTO DOMINGO.- The judge of the Permanent Jurisdiction of the National District ordered yesterday the imprisonment in Najayo of a Swedish citizen of Pakistani origin accused of swindling two investors with US$4.3 million dollars, posing as the main shareholder of the Renaissance Marriot Jaragua Hotel and Casino in order to sell them the hotel’s ownership concession.

Keila Perez sent Sattar Qureshi (Shimmy) to jail for a month, after dictating preventive prison. The foreigner, according to the District Attorney’s Office, has 17 open files in the USA for fraud.

The District Attorney, Bienvenido Fabian Melo, of the Investigation Department of Major Cases in the District Attorney’s Office, requested the filing of a financial guarantee of 160 thousand pesos for bail, prevention from leaving the country and periodical visits before the Public Ministry, but since the accused alleged he did not have any links to the country, the District Attorney’s request was altered.

The lawsuit against the Pakistani was presented by Jitendra Dahya and Jay Patel, through their attorneys Pedro Dominguez Brito, Emilio Rodriguez Montilla and Robert Martinez accusing him of complicity, criminal association and abuse of trust.

In addition to this lawsuit another one was filed by Wilfried Hoedt, on behalf of his lawyers Hipólito Herrera, Juan Moreno and Alberto Fiallo. According to the accusation, Shimmy gave the investors a tour through the hotel.

According to the first lawsuit the money was paid to Shimmy on several payments of US$25,000.00, US$444,442.89 and US$ 349,251.19 and transferred to the account of Sonia Cabrera, legal adviser for the alleged Mariott contract and US$20,000.00 in cash. The second lawsuit states that Sattar received from Hoedt US$797,500.00 as a deposit to guarantee the alleged sellers of the concession.

Source: listindiario.com

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