The Public ministry He highlighted this Sunday that he has more than 200 tests to demonstrate the links to money laundering from drug trafficking of the seven people arrested during the FM operationfor those who request the imposition of preventive detention as a measure of coercion, in addition to the case being declared complex.
According to a press release from the prosecution body, the court attorney, Ramona Novahead of the Anti-Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism Specialized Prosecutor’s Office, stressed that the request for a coercive measure filed last Friday includes elements of evidence that demonstrate the criminal responsibility of the accused.
In the first hearing, held this Sunday, Judge Odalis Alapis, of the Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of Santo Domingo Oeste, postponed until next Thursday the request for a measure against Juan Gabriel Pérez Tejada, Anabel Altagracia Sánchez Santana, Juan Isidro Pérez de la Rosa, Rolando Miguel Reyes Javier, Dyna Madison Noguera Polanco, Ramluis Mejía Azcona and Gladis Sofía Azcona de la Cruz.
The note says that when answering questions from the press about the process at the exit of the court, Nova said “the entire procedural gloss was notified and the defense argued that they had not been notified.” She highlighted the strength of the file and explained that some lawyers argued before the judge that they needed time to get to know it.
Judge Alapis set the next hearing for 9:00 in the morning of next Thursday, March 17.
The accused were arrested in the so-called FM operationdeveloped by the Public ministry under the General Directorate of Prosecution and the Specialized Anti-Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office, as part of the fight carried out by the Attorney General’s Office against organized crime.
The operation included raids in Santiago, Santo Domingo and Punta Canain which the acting prosecutors seized more than one million dollars and 760 thousand pesos, as well as 13 vehicles, including one Ferrari brand and two Porsches.
The Public ministry points out that the FM Case is linked to an international network dedicated to laundering assets from drug trafficking, which in August 2020 seized some 4.3 million dollars brought to the Dominican Republic in loudspeakers.
Some 15 prosecutors and 145 members of the National Drug Control Directorate (DNCD) and other security agencies of the Dominican State were in charge of the operation that had the international cooperation of the HSI (Office of Investigations of the Department of National Security). from the United States.
The Public ministry He stressed that the most suitable measure of coercion to impose against the defendants is preventive detention due to the seriousness of the facts and the danger of escape.
