Santo Domingo.- The Public Ministry reported that it will present to the Permanent Attention Jurisdiction the Dominican Alain José Gómez Luna, accused of fraud a group of people with a sum of more than 283 million pesos and who was handed over this Monday in extradition by the Government of Russia.
According to the Public Ministry, Gómez Luna faces charges for operating two illegal financial entities with which he defrauded a group of people with more than RD$283 million.
In the case appear as defendants, in addition to the extradited, Aida Ramos and Ricardo Munné.
The Extraditions Department of the Public Ministry, led by Court Attorney Gisela Cueto, explained the importance of international legal cooperation in the fight against crime. The process against Gómez Luna is being carried out by the National Directorate for the Investigation of Financial Crimes of the Public Ministry, headed by prosecutor Karina Concepción, the unit that requested the extradition.
Gómez Luna was charged with having incurred, along with other people, in fraud, forgery and use of false business documents and association of criminals with the intention of forging, in addition to money laundering and association of criminals.
The defendant fled the Dominican Republic on March 17, 2020 through the Joaquín Balaguer International Airport, bound for Cuba.
From the neighboring island, he left for Russia on June 5, where he was arrested in August 2021, after being a fugitive for more than a year.
The National Directorate for the Investigation of Financial Crimes of the Public Ministry initiated its actions against the accused before the Attorney General’s Office of the Russian Federation, through the Embassy of the Dominican Republic in that country, after carrying out his arrest in that nation.
Gómez Luna used the commercial companies Mercabanc, C. por A., Metrocrédito, SRL, and Metrocar, SAS, to make the victims believe that these companies had the authorization of the monetary authorities of the Dominican Republic to carry out financial intermediation activities.
However, the evidence indicates that neither the person under investigation nor the aforementioned companies had the authorization of the Dominican State.
