A
Day at the Courts
By: J. Duke Mosley
Part II: The Costa
Rican Global Studies Group visits the O.I.J. Financial Crimes
Division
Two
weeks before I had had a heated exchange with the Boss of this
division (OIJ). He felt that I was snooping around to much and
that I had never identified myself as to whom I was exactly and
what my intentions were.
He asked me for I.D. and I refused or just played dumb.
Now the next time around he was not going to take no for an
answer. And as destiny has it I ran into him again at the Drug
Prosecutors office.
So between he and the prosecutor they confronted me and 'copas'
for I.D. Copa presented his U.S. passport and I was still
refusing to show my Costarican I.D.
But the situation was tense and rather than face an explosive
confrontation, I did give him my I.D., to which they all rapidly
took down my name and cedula number (psychological tactic).
Two
weeks later I am informed that we would be allowed to visit the
O.I.J. financial division and sit with its (3) top bosses for
a little Q&A session.
Why was this a major issue?
Well first of all these are the accountants that have been
working on the case since July
4th, 2002 and better yet since 1999 (that is when the
government was first actively investigating Enrique).
They are the ones that have to tell the Drug prosecutor what
financial crimes may have been committed. After the O.I.J.
issues that report, it goes to the prosecutor who has to decide
if there is anything there he can use to build a case. If not he
would have to (or he should) drop the investigation.
The
meeting went well. Many things were cleared up. They are
really limited on what they can say for legal reasons. We will
also refrain from repeating what was said so we wont create
high expectations. But we will say it was very positive.
The
best thing we can all do is Pray. God is the real solution for
there is no power like his.
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here for Part I
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