Santo Domingo.- Dominican authorities, through the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) and the National Directorate for Drug Control (DNCD), with the support of United States Marshals, extradited three more Dominicans to that country, accused of electronic fraud, money laundering and other crimes.
Juan Rafael Parra Arias, Miguel Ángel Vásquez and Jose Ismael Dilone were transferred, under extensive security, to the Las Américas International Airport, where guarded by U.S. officials, they boarded a commercial flight bound for the United States.
The Dominicans were extradited to the United States, pursuant to Executive Branch decrees numbers 327-24, 341-24 and 342-24, which authorize their extradition to answer the charges against them.
Parra Arias, Angel Vasquez and Dilone Rodriguez are wanted in a United States court, for the District of New Jersey, on charges of criminal conspiracy to commit wire fraud and criminal conspiracy to launder money, resulting from wire and mail fraud.
The defendants were arrested in search and capture operations carried out in Santiago and other parts of the country, in response to arrest warrants issued by the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice.
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed charges against 16 Dominicans involved in a network to defraud hundreds of elderly Americans, which operated from the Dominican Republic.
The authorities have strengthened and consolidated international cooperation in the fight against transnational crime, and in the last four years, they have extradited and deported 248 fugitives from justice from different countries.
