From Monday they meet extent of coercion six out of eight accused, including employees of the Central Electoral Board (JCE), for its link with an alleged grid dedicated to the falsification of documents and the expedition of proceedings by birth to Haitian people in the municipality of NicePeravia province.
People who have not undergone justice are María del Carmen Arias Castillowho served as in charge of the Civil Status Official of the aforementioned municipality, and Dominga Valdez, owner of a foundation that supposedly falsified official documents to declare children Haitians.
The authorities managed to dismantle these operations that transgress the Civil Registry Dominican thanks to two Complaints deposited in the Peace Court of the Community of Nizao by the director of the Municipal Hospital, Dominga Tavárez Álvarez. The doctor denounced the falsification of your signature for the issuance of four Certifications of living born, through which the official of the JCE issued the same amount of proceedings Birth of late declaration for children Haitians.
In her complaint, Dr. Tavárez Álvarez identified the key figures for the development of this illicit, which was confirmed by the Ministry Public. According to the investigationin these operations fraudulent They participated employees of the Central Electoral Board and, above all, the person in charge of the Office, who “validated the documentation false committed by the alleged parents of the minors. “
The hospital director also denounced that Dominga Valdez (fugitive), owner of the Aneadef Foundation, dedicated to “attending children with disability“He falsified the hospital label and his signature to do Certifications of living born. These documents were prepared and scanned at the Internet Center Los Vustas, owned by the accused Stalin Balcón, and then presented before the JCE To declare four minors Haitians.
Case development
He record of the Ministry Public indicates that to achieve the expedition of the proceedings Birth, the accused Quilcy Paulino It was presented on January 30, 2024 at the Nizao official with four Certifications of living born of the Nizao hospital, accompanied by Dominga Valdez, who allegedly acted as in charge of the foundation dedicated to helping to declare children with disability.
That day, says the recordboth women were received and interviewed by the ex -official of the civil status Arias Castillo, who, after reviewing the scanned documents, sent the record to the employee andLizabeth Mercedes García de Matos. The latter generated three receipts from late statements from Paulino and then passed the record to the employee Juan Javier Maríñez Guillénwho digited the data and recorded that the supposed declarant father, Amauris Rosario Aybar, He appeared and signed, when in reality he never appeared in the Office. In addition, the record indicates that the person who holds the identity of Rosario Aybar appears in the system as deceased Since 1998.
Likewise, the persecution agency establishes that the administrative manager, Subject Mercedes Sánchez, Illicitly entered the system with the user of another servant and printed a receipt cash in favor of “Declarant Father.”
He record It also emphasizes that “the crime It wouldn’t have accomplished Without the participation of the civil status officer, María del Carmen Arias Castillo, who signed the birth registration books of the minors of Haitian nationality, children of immigrants Haitians in irregular condition. In addition, Arias Castillo never interviewed the minors and validated scanned documents as support for the records. During his two years in office, he also did not visit the Hospital of Nizao, the Church or the School Center, as was his duty to validate late records. “
Irregularities detected
The investigation determined that:
- In the Municipal Hospital of Nizao does not appear that Mrs. Quilcy Paulino has given birth to four babies on the indicated dates: April 26, 2008, December 23, 2014, June 1, 2017 and October 11, 2019. Her Unique delivery recorded in that center occurred on August 24, 2005
“According to the investigation From the delivery book of the hospital, there are no records of these births, which shows the falsification Of the living -born certificates, “said the complainant.
- The Certifications of non -baptized issued by the parish Our Lady of the Mercedes de Santa Ana are false.
Reverend Father William A. Rosario indicated to the Ministry Public that did not issue such Certifications and that the documents presented by the alleged parents are fraudulent.
- The Prof. Asela Paulino Fuentes Educational Center certified that the minors in question “do not study or study at the aforementioned school and that neither the firm, the seal, nor the logo correspond to the institution.”
Accusation and coercion measures
Because of this fact, Stalen Falcón, Juan Javier Maríñez Guillén, Elizabeth Mercedes García, Quilcy Paulino and subjectyri Mercedes Sánchez have a extent coercive consisting of economic guarantee and periodic presentation. Only the accused Amauri Rosario Aybar, of Haitian nationality, is complying prison Preventive.
The titular prosecutor of Peravia, Ángel Darío Tejada, indicated that the Ministry Public will weigh the decision of Judge Laida Amador, since he considers that all those involved must receive prison Preventive due to the seriousness of the imputed facts.
This case has received the provisional legal qualification of rape to articles 265, 266, 145, 146, 147, 148, 150 and 151 of the Code Dominican penal falsification of public documents. They are also accused of violating articles 207 and 208 of Law 4-23 on Civil Registryarticles 13 and 14, numeral 4, of the law of ID number 8-92, articles 86 and 88 of Law 172-13 on comprehensive protection of Personal dataand articles 6, paragraph 1, 7, 17, 18 and 19 of Law 53-07 on high-tech crimes and crimes.
Due to the severity of the case, the investigation has been declared as a process complex, which will allow the Prosecutor to have the necessary time to deepen the criminal framework.
