The Spanish singer Julio Iglesias living in the Dominican Republic tried to enter a shipment of fruits and vegetables through the Punta Cana International Airport, which was confiscated by technicians from the Ministry of Agriculture.
A press release did not reveal the name of the performer. However, it was leaked that it was Julio Iglesia, who resides in a town in Corales Resort.
The technicians from the Plant Quarantine Inspection Service (AIPC) of the Ministry of Agriculture at the Punta Cana airport seized the artist's luggage with 42.16 kilograms of strawberries, raspberries, blueberry, cherry, tomato, beet, celery, beans, spinach, lettuce, mushrooms and arugula that he intended to go to the Dominican Republic.
The passenger caught with the cargo is of Spanish nationality, came from Bahamas on flight number N768JJ, the night of last Wednesday, January 10, when he tried to put the seized cache in his luggage.
Engineer Rosa Lazala, director of Plant Health, speaking through the Department of Agriculture Communications, explained that the country's Health and Quarantine technicians reinforced surveillance and inspection, pre-checking and screening of luggage and all passengers.
The Ministry of Agriculture continues to apply these controls in the different ports, airports and the land border, with a view to guaranteeing that no product of animal or plant origin enters that puts national production at risk.
Journalist Erick Montilla, spokesperson for the Ministry of Agriculture, said that together with OIRSA, a permanent alert is maintained at all entry points to Dominican soil, as part of the protocol activated after the detection of Mediterranean fly species.
