The Monte Plata Prosecutor’s Office reported that in the next few hours it will request the Permanent Attention Office of that jurisdiction to impose preventive detention as a measure of coercion against Wilkin García Peguero (Mantequilla), for fraud and threatening to kill more than 20 people who they sued against him.
García Peguero has been in prison since last night at the Ciudad Nueva Palace of Justice, after being arrested yesterday afternoon at the National Police Palace.
The Monte Plata prosecutor, Ramona Santana Uceta, declared that during the course of the day Mantequilla will be transferred to that city, to request a measure of coercion, consisting of preventive detention.
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He specified that the Prosecutor’s Office received some 25 formal complaints for fraud filed by citizens through lawyers against García Peguero, as well as some 10 complaints filed directly by citizens.
He explained that based on that, the Public ministry managed, on the 9th of this month, an arrest warrant against him for violation of articles 307 and 405 of the Dominican Penal Code.
He stated that in response to this, Judge Carmen Daniela Araújo, of the Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of the Monte Plata Judicial District, issued arrest warrant number 668-2022-SAJP-01389 against the accused.
He indicated that García Peguero raised millions of pesos through an unregulated company called 3.14 Inversiones World Wide, which operated in a commercial premises and in a residence in the Sabana Grande de Boyá municipality, and about which the financial authorities warned the population of that it was a pyramid business.
His arrest occurred after he reported to the Police Palace, supposedly to record a video to post on social media as a way of demonstrating that he was not being persecuted by the authorities.
It is recalled that at the beginning of this month of November, the young Rolando Desulme filed a complaint against Wilkin García Peguero with the Public Ministry of that town for allegedly having threatened him with death.
