SANTIAGO.- The Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of this demarcation ratified the measure of coercion that weighs against five defendants in Operation Falcón, the investigation of the Public Ministry that dismantled a powerful network of drug trafficking, money laundering and firearms trafficking, serving to the fact that the legal assumptions have not changed and to the latent danger that they will be removed from the process.
Judge Stephanie Santiago ratified the complexity of the case and confirmed the preventive detention for 18 months against Juan Carlos Mosquea Eduardo, Harrington José Mosquea Núñez and Iván de Jesús Paulino.
The judge also maintained the aforementioned measures for the brothers Alberto de Jesús Polanco (el Prieto) and Enmanuel de Jesús Polanco (Many).
After accepting the conclusions of the Public Ministry, the court declared inadmissible the appeal to order 012206-2022, filed by the Polanco brothers.
The criminal prosecution body, represented by prosecutors Sourelly Jáquez, Pedro Martínez and Yeni Liranzo, based its request to maintain the coercive measures imposed on the fact that those involved in the powerful structure of organized crime could not present sufficient roots to make prosecution unlikely. escape hazard. Therefore, it considered that the deprivation of liberty continues to be the most suitable and guaranteeing measure for the continuity of the process.
Operation Falcón, which in 2021 launched dozens of raids and arrests, dismantled a powerful organized crime network that already in 2012 was trafficking at least 2,500 kilos of cocaine a week and that came to accumulate money laundering investments for at least 10,000 million pesos.
The defendants are accused of incurring in the crimes of association of criminals for the commission of others such as drug trafficking, money laundering and firearms trafficking, activities through which millionaires accumulated movable and immovable property, billions of pesos in cash and vehicles.
Some of these involved lent their names for the acquisition of millionaire assets.
Next Wednesday, May 25, the same court will hear the mandatory review of the coercive measures that were imposed against the defendant in the Kelvin Torres Bueno (el Toro) case, who served as the figurehead of the organization, managing millionaire assets accumulated by the criminal group.
