After evaluating and homologating a agreement presented by him Public Ministrythe judges of Collegiate Court of the Criminal Chamber of the Court of First Instance of Barahona on Friday eight and five years of prison to the members of a Criminal structure of drug trafficking and laundering dismantled in 2023.
The court imposed condemnations eight -year prison for Ruth Esther Matos (Home), Yohan Moisés Ferreras Báez, Danny Daniel Diena and José Augusto Romero. In addition, he sentenced five years of prison to Cristell Cuevas and Máximo Leonardo Rodríguez Pinedaboth in suspended modalityrefers to a press release from Public Ministry.
The Court, composed of Judges Wanda Deñó Suero, Celina Novas Jiménez and Luis Eugenio Pérez Vólquez, validated the application of a Opportunity criteria Regarding Yahaira Ferrera Báez, whom he imposed a fine of 200 minimum wages.
He Public Ministry was represented by prosecutors José Manuel Calzado and Pedro Medinaof the Special Prosecutor’s Office Antilavado of Assets and Financing of Terrorism and the Prosecutor’s Office of Barahona.
Confiscation and payment of fines
He agreementpartial and full, established for Ruth Esther Matos the confiscation of your assets, in addition to the payment of a fine equivalent to 200 minimum wages.
Yohan Moisés Ferrera Báez must turn eight years of prison In Azua prison. The court also ordered the confiscation of its assets and a fine ascending to 200 minimum wages.
Also, he ordered the confiscation of the assets of Cristell Cuevas and Máximo Leonardo Rodríguez Pineda.
Besides, Danny Daniel Diena and José Augusto Romero They must pay one fine of two hundred 200 minimum wages and fulfill its eight -year penalty in the public prison in Barahona.
As part of agreement The dissolution of the Corporate name called “Purchase and sale of South Metals”.
Public Ministry He presented evidence
He Prosecutor’s teamdirected by Ramona Nova Cabrera, interim head of the Specialized Attorney General’s Office of Assets and Financing of Terrorism, and Wellington Matos, head of Barahona, “he obtained overwhelming tests Against all the members of the network that operated in a complex scheme of money laundering, through the international traffic of Drugsfrom the southern region of the Dominican Republic. “
The group was arrested in flagrant crime After a Operational Executed on July 10, 2023, in which 245 packages were occupied with a weight of 254,080 kilograms of hydrochloride cocaine.
In addition, the persecuting agency said this Network is linked With the confiscation on September 6, 2013, in the municipality of Juancho, province of Pedernales, of 14 PACAS with 446 packages, and on August 3, 2018, with 285 packages of hydrochloride cocaine occupied on Caletón Beach, in Barahona.
- Established that Criminal structure The sum of 1,221,436,064.41 pesos and 96,665.41 dollars moved in the national financial system.
He Public Ministry He also stressed that the plastic recycling company Purchase and sale of southern metals Replacovemesur SRL, which was used as an instrument of the criminal organization, made financial movements which reveal income of 35,829,826.76 million pesos.
Regarding Cledyn Pérez Féliz The file was broken down and was declared in rebellion.
