Santo Domingo, DR.-The judge of the Second Collegiate Court of Instruction of Santiago ordered the conditional release of John Maldonado Castroformer director of Worthy Community implicated in the Falcon case.
Judge Job García Hurtado varied the measure of coercion against the defendant for alleged links to drug trafficking and money laundering, imposing an exit impediment and an electronic shackle, lawyers Carlos Olivares and Enmanuel Pimentel reported.
Maldonado Castro served as director of Comunidad Digna from September 2020 to September 2021, when the Falcón case broke out, launched by the Public Ministry against money laundering as a result of drug trafficking.
The former official is the husband of the deputy of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) for El Seibo, Faustina Guerrero Cabrera (Gray Maldonado); who is also investigated by Operation Falcon.
During Wednesday the authorities made several seizures in the National District, Santiago and the eastern part of the country. related to the Falcon case.
These seizures were related to Juan Maldonado and Kelvin Torres, both accused in the case.
The Public Ministry accuses them of laundering large sums of money within a criminal network in which “they trafficked hundreds of thousands of kilos of drugs to Europe, the United States and Puerto Rico; mobilizing more than US$500 million as a result of this criminal activity.”
