He Public Ministry launched this Wednesday Operation Chameleon with which it arrested seven people who, in the next few hours, will be requested a coercive measure, accused of belonging to a corruption and organized crime network dedicated to embezzlement, fraud against the State , counterfeiting, coalition of officials, smuggling, illicit trade, sabotage, terrorism against critical infrastructure, through high technology and identity theft.
The defendants remain arrested in the Deprivation of Liberty Care Center of the National District Prosecutor’s Office.
During the Operation, deployed on the night of October 2, 2024, residences and companies were raided in the National District, Santo Domingo Este, San Cristóbal and Punta Cana. Approximately 170 members of the National Police, Units participated in these operations. Specials and more than 30 specialized prosecutors against organized crime.
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During the raids, hundreds of pieces of evidence were seized that confirm the accusations of the Public Ministry, which has described them as one of the “Most successful of its operations against organized crime, to the point that the processing of the evidence in some of them lasted for more than 12 hours.”
Among the facts that are the subject of the accusation are the fraudulent contract for the modernization of the traffic light system of greater Santo Domingo; the illegal contract with the Ministry of Defense and the company Aurix, dated June 23, 2020, used to usurp functions of the intelligence, security and defense organizations of the State and the sabotage that occurred against the traffic light network in the month of August.
