Santo Domingo.- The international drug, weapons and money laundering organization dismantled through Operation Ghostmoved exorbitant sums of money in the national financial system, managing to jointly place the sum of RD$189,331,640.70 and outputs for RD$144,141,549.07 of which a high percentage were placed in the cash system.
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This was reported by the Specialized Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Prosecutor’s Office, who activated, at the request of the Peravia Prosecutor’s Office, the financial investigation, which also allowed it to be identified that other members from the structure they were able to move sums of RD$ 54,265,680.89, in pesos, and up to US$ 19,881.00, in dollars, by Ronny Guerrero; For his part, Erick Fulgencio Mota also mobilized the sum of RD$ 42,789,496.52, and Jennifer Sahira Villafaña Pujols, some RD$ 37,608,371.74.
During the investigation carried out by the Public Ministry, Elements of material, documentary, expert and testimonial evidence were obtained that demonstrate that the accused adapted their conduct to the typologies of money laundering, originating from drug trafficking and arms trafficking.
The Collegiate Court of Peravia, made up of judges Mary G. Díaz Castillo, Miguel A. Pérez Méndez and Jorge T. Broun Issac, also seized seven luxury properties, including apartments, commercial premises and villas, as well as electronic devices that helped identify the behavior of the structure, cash and immobilized money, high-end vehicles, as well as various firearms, including rifles and pistols.
For being part of this same network, Jarick Patrick Steven Farro was sentenced to 20 years in prison, but died being held in the Correction and Rehabilitation Center CCR-Najayo, in San Cristóbal.
Through a press release, the interim head of the Specialized Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Prosecutor’s Office, Ramona Nova Cabrera, and the head prosecutor of the Peravia Prosecutor’s Office, Ángel Darío Tejeda Fabal, indicated that it is an exemplary sentence, before a criminal type that affects public health and the assets of the State.
They also reported that the investigation was in charge of the attorney general of the Court of Appeal of the Specialized Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Prosecutor’s Office, Pedro Medina Quezada.
Convictions
Two of the members of the international trafficking network were sentenced today to 20 and 10 years in prison respectively.
The sentence of 20 years in prison was imposed on Jhon Braulio Acuña Chavarría, who will also have to pay a fine equivalent to 400 minimum wages, while Haydee Grabiela Hernandez de Acuña was sentenced to 10 years in prison and paid a fine equivalent to 200 minimum wages.
Both defendants were part of the criminal structure dedicated to international trafficking of drugs, weapons and money laundering, which operated in the southern part of the country, with the municipality as its center. Baní, Peravia province, as well as the provinces of Barahona and Pedernales.
