Case of Jorge Torres Orellana

According to reliable sources Jorge Torres Orellana davens (prays) at the Chabad in the Dominican Republic.  He is also listed as WANTED on Interpol's web page


Interpol

Wanted
TORRES ORELLANA, Jorge


Legal Status
Present family name: TORRES ORELLANA
Forename: JORGE
Sex: MALE
Date of birth: 15 October 1977 (32 years old)
Place of birth: HUIZUCAR, LA LIBERTAD, El Salvador
Language spoken: Spanish Castilian
Nationality: El Salvador


Physical description
Height: 1.68 meter <-> 66 inches
Weight: 69 kg <-> 152 pounds
Colour of eyes: DARK
Colour of hair: BLACK


Offences
Categories of Offences: CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN, PEOPLE SMUGGLING, TRAFFICKING & ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
Arrest Warrant Issued by: JUZGADO DE PAZ SAN JUAN OPICO, LA LIBERTAD / El Salvador


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Spanish to English translation using google

Salvadoran smuggler connection investigated in case of Haitian children El Mundo - 02/12/2010 

Here is warrant for trafficking in persons for sexual exploitation
Enrique Garcia Diario El Mundo
Jorge Torres Orellana or Puello, who appeared in media Dominican lawyer international and ten Americans who were captured when they tried to smuggle Haitian children, could be a Salvadoran pursued here for the crime of Trafficking for Exploitation Trafficking and Sexual confirmed yesterday the Deputy Director of Police Investigation National Civil Howard Cotto.

The alert was given by the U.S. daily The New York Times, which revealed that Jorge Torres Puello could be Orellana, 43, originally from Huizucar, The Freedom, against whom there is in El Salvador, an arrest warrant.
Cotto Torres Orellana said, could be the same person in Haiti is being passed off as the lawyer Jorge Anibal Torres Puello, a national Dominican, and who has shown as part of the public defender Americans in Haiti. In El Salvador, Jorge Torres and Jorge Anibal Orellana Torres Puello, has no record of having exercised the profession, said Assistant Director of Research and Dominican media nor recorded as lawyer.

In the U.S., the media are following up the case and have requested the assistance of the Salvadoran National Civil Police, to see if they This is the same subject. Cotto, explained that through the photographs appear in their single identity document, DUI in his passport, and another published by The New York Times, appear to be the same person. But what substantiate, through the comparison of fingerprints, he said.

"We shall verify, because you probably have a dual nationality, legally speaking, or it may have falsified identity, either here or in Dominican Republic, "he said.

The Assistant Director of Research, noted that there is a court order Orellana Torres arrest after they found evidence against him, by the raid on a house in the residential Forests of Lourdes, The Freedom, in May last year. In that place was captured his wife Ana Josefa Galvarina Orellana Ramírez, a member of a structure dedicated to the exploitation child sexual Central America and the Caribbean. The modeling contract. Today, women are imprisoned in Prison for Women, Ilopango.

They also found evidence of its Torres Orellana, belonged to Sephardic Jewish Community, said police spokesman.
The accused fled the country between May and June last year, possibly a blind spot. Currently it is unknown where he is based, said Cotto.


The supposed attorney says he never was here Enrique Garcia Diario El Mundo

The assumption Dominican lawyer, Jorge Torres Puello, told The New York Times a telephone interview that he had not participated in any illegal activity in El Salvador and had never been there. He defined it as a case of mistaken identity. "I have nothing to do with El Salvador," he said, noting that his name was so common in Latin America, as John Smith in America.

"There is a Colombian drug trafficker who was arrested with 25 identities and one of with my name on them, "he said without elaborate more.

"Bring the evidence," he said when pressed about the allegations child trafficking in the brief interview, according to The New York Times, concluded when he said he was entering an elevator. Later, became upset and said that he had not broken any law.

The U.S. and Dominican media diary reveals several contradictions in their statements. In one, Puello says he was born in New York, other sometimes says he has no passport, which is licensed from other law in Florida and Dominican, but no record in any of the two places.

The Americans tried in Haiti and was fired as a lawyer after requested $ 12 billion to their relatives to take them to the Dominican.