Puerto Rico businessman accused of laundering $7M

For three years Raymar Lucena Rivera, a renowned businessman in the area of ​​Cabo Rojo, who was indicted for drug trafficking and money laundering by a federal grand jury on Wednesday, managed to allegedly amassing a handsome fortune of $ 100 million as a result of his alleged business the underworld.
With contacts in the Dominican Republic, Panama and Colombia, according to the indictment, Lucena Rivera did launder large sums of cash, checks by asking to third parties for use in several large luxury real estate developments in Puerto Rico.
Federal authorities allege that Lucena Rivera, owner and president of RV Trucking Corporation in Cabo Rojo, used his luxurious residence in Mansions of the municipality to carry out several millions of transactions.
"The efforts of federal agencies have law and order the arrest of this individual who participated in activities on a large scale drug trafficking, with the assistance of international drug traffickers in the financial part of your business," said Rosa Emilia Rodriguez Velez, a federal prosecutor. Lucena Rivera weighed on two counts of drug trafficking and money laundering seven.
According to the indictment, on May 28, 2010 Lucena Rivera gave $ 1,375,039 to a person known to the grand jury in the parking lot of K-Mart Plaza Las Americas, with instructions to make her a check payable to Lucma Solutions Corp . the amount of $ 125,000 and $ 1,088,000 to hand over a partner of his in the Dominican Republic.
Later the indictment alleges that Rivera made 14 transactions Lucena additional specific dates on which amounts of money handed millionaires.
"The September 29, 2010 Raymar Lucena Rivera gave $ 2,390,960 to a person known to the grand jury at his home in Cabo Rojo. Lucena Rivera instructed the person known to the grand jury to provide four checks with the names of the following entities: Regency Park Association ($ 190,000), Royal Palms ($ 33,000), Banco Popular ($ 293,000), Joyuda Beach Resort ($ 1.175 million) and provide a dollar amount to its members, "reads the indictment.
The prosecutor explained that at the time of his arrest Lucena Rivera was coordinating the final payment for a purchase of 200 kilos of cocaine with a contact in Colombia during the investigation and agents of the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA, for its acronym in English) confiscated over $ 2 million from the businessman who allegedly washed $ 7 billion over the past 18 months.
Yesterday, RV Trucking Corporation employees on condition of anonymity stated that they were surprised by the allegations against his boss.
The Federal Prosecutor requested the confiscation of several properties of Lucena Rivera and the case is assigned to the federal prosecutor Carlos Cardona.
If convicted, Lucena Rivera faces a minimum sentence of ten years imprisonment and a maximum of life imprisonment.