From 20 years to 6 months in prison, they were imposed on most of those accused in the Cattleya case, by the judges that make up the Third Collegiate Court of the National District.
While others involved in the network were sentenced “to the payment of a bond” of 3 million pesos.
The Cattleya case is an investigation carried out by the Public Ministry of the Dominican Republic, focused on the disarticulation of a transnational network dedicated to human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation. The operation began in August 2022 and resulted in the arrest of several involved and the rescue of more than 80 women from Colombia and Venezuela.
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Among the main involved are José Miguel Michel Guridis, Daniel Enrique Inirio Abreu, Alejandro Arturo Bautista Bustamante, Cristina Virginia González Hernández, and Richard Renné Rivera Portillo, among others. Judge Kenya Romero would have issued preventive detention for 11 of those involved and declared the case as a complex.
The Public Ministry has requested sentences of 15 and 25 years in prison for the members of the Network, as well as significant fines. The investigation revealed that the defendants captured, moved and sexually exploited foreign women under false promises of employment in the country.
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