The authorities seized this Saturday a shipment of 643 packages of cocaine5 properties, a pleasure boat, an AR-15 rifle, two 12 shotguns, two revolvers, two pistols, six motorcycles and six vehicles. Also, RD$1,769,400 and US$159,698 and arrested five people in several raids in Santo Domingo Este, Guerra, Boca Chica, Barahona, Santiago, Higüey, Cap Cana and Romana and the province of La Altagracia.
The Public Ministry launched Operation Leopard as a result of the intelligence, monitoring and surveillance actions that led the Public Ministry and the National Drug Control Directorate (DNCD) to occupy the drugs and the occupied assets.
The operation, headed by the General Directorate of Persecution of Public Ministrythe Specialized Prosecutor’s Office against Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism and the Prosecutor’s Office of La Altagracia, has the international cooperation of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), from the United States.
The drugs were seized on El Carmen Street on the corner of Libertad Avenue, in San Rafael del Yuma, La Altagracia province.
A total of 27 prosecutors participate in actions alongside 194 DNCD agents. The authorities carried out 17 raids in the National District, Santo Domingo Este, Guerra, Boca Chica, Barahona, Santiago, Higüey, Cap Cana and Romana.
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Deputy Attorney General Wilson Camacho, head of the General Directorate of Prosecution, explained that the operation is part of the unwavering decision of Attorney General Yeni Berenice Reynoso to continue confronting drug trafficking and organized crime without respite.
Meanwhile, the president of the DNCD, Vice Admiral José Manuel Cabrera Ulloa, reiterated his commitment to continue confronting drug trafficking and organized crime “without truce or concessions”.
“The occupation of the cache constitutes an important blow to drug trafficking networks and transnational organized crime and is another example that the security forces of the Dominican Republic continue to improve their strength and integration in the fight against structures dedicated to drug trafficking, money laundering and other crimes,” said Cabrera Ulloa.
The cache occupied in San Rafael del Yuma is linked to another of 993 kilograms of cocaineoccupied in April on a boat anchored in a tourist port in the province of La Altagracia and which, in turn, was related to a powerful drug trafficking criminal structure headed by Serbian Nikola Boros and/or Antun Mrdeza, wanted by Interpol for belonging to a transnational criminal organization dedicated to the crime of cocaine trafficking between the United States, Puerto Rico, Spain and Italy.
