Higüey, La Altagracia. – Three people linked to an international drug trafficking network were sent to preventive detention for a year, after the organization was dismantled during the Operation Leopardin which 643 packages of cocaine were seized.
The court of the Judicial Office of Permanent Care Services of La Altagracia declared the case as complex and ordered preventive detention for Wilson Rafael Inirio, Rafael Torres and Daniela Stefanny Olaverría. Meanwhile, Nestor Julio Robles was released.
Three others involved, Moisés Severino Inirio, José Ignacio de Jesús Mota and Pedro Luis Cordero Espinalremain fugitives from justice.
The court’s decision was based on the evidence presented by prosecutors Pedro Medina Quezada and José Manuel Calzadowho represented the Public Ministry in the process.
According to the authorities, the operation allowed the cocaine shipment to be seized on El Carmen Street, corner of Libertad Avenue, in the San Rafael del Yuma municipality.
The Operation Leopard was executed by the General Directorate of Persecution of the Public Ministry, led by the deputy attorney Wilson Camachotogether with the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office against Money Laundering Assets and Financing of Terrorism, directed by the court attorney Ramona Nova, and the Prosecutor’s Office of La Altagracia, under the direction of prosecutor Claudia Garrido. The action had the international cooperation of the United States DEA.
In total, 27 prosecutors and 194 DNCD agents carried out 17 raids in different locations, including the National District, Santo Domingo Este, Guerra, Boca Chica, Barahona, Santiago, Higüey, Cap Cana and La Romana.
During the operations, five properties, a pleasure boat, an AR-15 rifle, two shotguns, two revolvers, two pistols, six motorcycles, six vehicles, RD$1,769,400 and US$159,698 were seized.
The cache confiscated on October 18 is linked to another shipment of 993 kilograms of cocaine seized in April on a boat in a tourist port of La Altagracito.
Both operations are related to an international criminal organization led by Serbian Nikola Boros and/or Antun Mrdezawanted by Interpol for cocaine trafficking to the United States, Puerto Rico, Spain and Italy.
Wilson Rafael Inirio and Rafael Torres They will serve their prison sentence at the Anamuya Correction and Rehabilitation Center (CCR), in Higüey, while Daniela Stefanny Olaverría She will be confined in the province’s public women’s prison.
