Santo Domingo.-The Supreme Court of Justice admitted the appeal in which the former representative of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) for La Vega, Rosa Amalia Pilarte Lópezappealed the decision of the Second Chamber of that high court, which sentenced her to five years in prison for money laundering, and set for January 30 of next year the hearing of the appeal filed by her.
On July 15 of this year, former legislator Pilarte López filed an appeal against criminal sentence no. SCJ-SS-24-0592, issued on May 28, 2024 by the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, for enjoying privileged jurisdiction.
The sentence declared her guilty of violating articles 3 (sections 1, 2 and 3) and 9 (sections 1 and 2) of Law no. 155-17 on Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism, sentencing her to 5 years of confinement in the Rafey Mujeres Correctional and Rehabilitation Center, to the payment of a fine equivalent to 200 minimum wages in the public sector and to the confiscation of various real estate assets.
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On December 5, the SCJ heard the appeal filed by Inversiones Inmobiliaria Cutupú, SRL, represented by Manuel Antonio Inoa Valdez, against the confiscation of the properties ordered in the ruling, through which it sought to raise oppositions over said assets and, after consideration, the appeal was declared inadmissible.
The Plenary Session of the SCJ admitted the appeal and set the hearing for January 30, 2025, in order to hear the appeal against the indicated decision.
On May 29, the judges of the Second Chamber of the SCJ, Francisco Jerez Mena (president), Nancy Salcedo Fernández, Francisco Ortega Polanco, María Garabito and Fran Soto sentenced him to five years Pilarte Lopezaccused of integrating a criminal network headed by her husband, Miguel Arturo López (Miky López).
Although they sent her to serve her sentence Rafey Women Correctional and Rehabilitation Center of Santiago, it was not executed because it was immediately appealed by the defendant’s defense.
The congresswoman had reported an asset of 15,900,000 pesosbut the Dominican justice system specified that the true amount is 4,418,399,312.92 pesos, the product of a “broad money laundering circuit”, with the purpose of hiding the origin of the resources, coming from illicit drug trafficking, the authorities said.
