Another accused of the Panthera 7 ′ case was delivered last night, the Public Ministry revealed this morning. With the delivery of this new accused, the detainees add up.
This is Joel de Jesús, who is incurred in the file for the cargo of the 9.8 tons of cocaine confiscated in the Caucedo multimodal port last month.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office has not prepared the measure of coercion that he will request, with him there are two who voluntarily deliver to the Public Ministry.
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While seven of the accused were arrest in the operation.
The judge of the Permanent Attention Court of Santo Este Este, Karen Casado, was preparing to know the request for coercion measure to eight of the defendants, the hearing is expected to be postponed.
The court should decide on the fusion of the file.
On this month, the MP requested 18 months of preventive detention for those arrested through the execution of the Panthera 7 operation, linked to the seizure of 9.8 tons of cocaine in the multimodal port Caucedo last December 2024. Prosecutors Actors also requested the complex case statement.
The coercion measure was requested against José Nicolás Castillo Hart (a) “Nikito”; Winston Armando Tejera Rodríguez (a) “Barbikin”; Cristian Rayner Canela Aybar; Nelson Neftalí Mercedes Lugo; Dulvi Jesús de los Santos; Enriquillo Luis Brito and Enrique José Luis Brito, indicated by the Public Ministry as members of an international network of drug trafficking and money laundering in a joint operation with the National Drug Control Directorate (DNCD) and the Drug Control Administration of the United States (DEA).
In the actions against the criminal network, developed autonomously by the Dominican Republic, 89 prosecutors and 564 special forces agents participated, who made arrests and raids.
According to the request for coercion, during the raids more than 22 million in cash, in pesos and dollars were seized. In addition, 20 light vehicles, 10 heavy vehicles, 10 containers, three motorcycles, three pastors and five outboard engines; as well as firearms.
The representatives of the accusing body cataloged Operation Panthera 7 as one of the greatest operational offensive against organized crime carried out in the hemisphere.
The defendants of Panthera 7
He Public Ministry He maintains that the accused violated articles 59, 60, 265, and 266 of the Dominican Criminal Code, which typifies “Association of Malchechores”, as well as articles 58, 59, 60, 75 and 85 of Law 50-88, on narcotic drugs, which typify “drug trafficking and sponsorship.” The cargo of the 9.8 tons of cocaine was incinerated.
