The lawyers of the defendants in the Falcon caseon money laundering from drug trafficking, have not yet been notified about the accusation formal that does the Public ministry.
Ángel Rodríguez, legal representative of one of the defendants, understands that the Criminal Office will seize at any time the court that will hear the preliminary trial.
Rodríguez, as well as the other lawyers who are in the process, hope to have the file in their possession to prepare their defense arguments.
The room in charge of the process must deliver the accusatory file to all parties.
The court then proceeds to set the date for the first hearing in the case.
The Public ministry Deposit accusation formal against 31 natural persons at the end of September.
The group is accused of crimes of money laundering as a result of drug trafficking, sponsorship of drug trafficking, firearms trafficking and identity theft within the organized crime structure dismantled through the Operation Falcon.
In the accusationmore than 4,000 pages, the prosecuting body requests the definitive confiscation of more than 150 movable and immovable propertyincluding villas, apartments, land and fuel stations, seized from the criminal organization through interagency interventions that the Prosecutor’s Office and the General Directorate of Prosecution of the Public Ministry deployed in several provinces of the country, with the international cooperation of the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
In addition, it requests the confiscation of more than RD$400 million and five million dollars that were seized and frozen in bank accounts and through raids.
The dismantling of the criminal network occurred last year, after an investigation that has been extended.
