Saint Dominic.-Several members of the National Police accused of being part of a network that irregularly extracted ammunition from warehouses to market them, deserted the ranks of that institution and their whereabouts are unknown to date.
This was revealed by a source linked to the investigation, explaining that the deserters are part of a group of eight agents, including officers and subordinates, who disappeared before the Ministry of the Interior and Police released the details about the ongoing investigation.
On Thursday, October 31, through a statement, the authorities reported on the dismantling of said criminal network that operated within the National Police.
However, the names and ranks of those involved have not been revealed so far.
On repeated occasions, the Minister of the Interior and Police, Faride Raful, has refused to refer to the case, arguing that it is now up to the Public Ministry to determine, based on its investigations, who bears criminal responsibility.
“It is a complex investigation, it is not about one or two people, therefore at the time the Public Ministry, following the procedures, will make known to the public who the people involved are, the ranks they had and how they operated,” he stated. Raful last Tuesday.
Alert
After learning about the network that operated within the Police, an alert was generated among the other State security and intelligence agencies that motivated them to carry out inventories and surveys in their ammunition and weapons depots.
The Arms Administration of the National Police remains under intervention after the Ministry of the Interior and Police sent the findings regarding the irregular theft of ammunition to the Public Ministry.
Although the authorities have not offered further details of the criminal action, EL DÍA was informed that the UN warned about the detection of ammunition in Haiti coming from the country.
Lifting
— Ammunition
As a result of the investigation carried out with the support of intelligence and State security organizations, the lack of hundreds of ammunition in the inventories of the uniformed warehouses was evident.
Stolen ammunition taken to Haiti
Investigations. The case arises after the mission of the Organization of American States (UN) in Haiti raised the alarm to the Dominican authorities when it detected that ammunition in the possession of some gang members were in containers identified as belonging to the National Police, as explained to THE DAY the source.
The mission of the Organization of American States (UN) in Haiti has been on alert due to the combination of arms trafficking coming from the United States for the gangs that control that territory and that in turn are supplied with ammunition trafficked through the porous border with the Dominican Republic.
