Santo Domingo.- The judge of the Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of Santiago He imposed coercion measures to seven of the accused arrested in the Discovery 3.0 operation, a process through which a criminal structure dedicated to international scams was dismantled.
As requested by the Public Ministry, the Court issued preventive detention, revisable every three months, against one of the leaders of the network, Bernardo Taveras Vélezwho will comply with the measure in the Center for Correction and Rehabilitation (CCR) Rafey Men, in Santiago.
In the case of Jesús Manuel Castaños Colónalso indicated as the leader of the structure and who the Court attributed an active participation in the facts, house arrest with electronic shackles and an impediment of exit of the country, due to health reasons.
Seven defendants received coercion measures after dismantling a network of international scams in Santiago
The judge declared the complex processing process and highlighted international cooperation with US agencies. In addition, he granted the Public Ministry an eight -month period to present the formal accusation.
Regarding the accused Juan Luis Naranjo Gómez, Adderly Antonio Polanco Báez, José Ramón López Tavárez and Luis Eduardo Méndez UreñaThe Court valued its collaboration with the authorities and ordered house arrest, according to the request of the persecuting body.
Similarly, he hosted the request against Gipsy Pamela Castaños Garcíawho was imposed by an economic guarantee of 500 thousand pesos Through an insurer.
During the hearing, the judge stressed that the crime of money laundering is not limited to direct action, but can also be committed by omission, in those cases in which the defendants could not justify the origin of the resources reflected in their financial statements.
Within the framework of the discovery 3.0 operation they were also arrested Oscar Manuel Castaños García, Joel José Cruz Rodríguez (aka paflow), Joel Francisco Mathilda León and Edward José Puellowho, at a hearing at the Supreme Court of Justice, voluntarily accepted their extradition to the United States. There they will face charges related to the criminal structure, which operated mainly against elderly people.
