Lin Operation Falcón, the most recent offensive of the Public Ministry against drug trafficking, money laundering and organized crime operations, already has more than 20 people arrested, while the execution of new home violations is underway, according to met yesterday.
The surprising and spectacular offensive against these illicit acts, which began last Wednesday morning, has generated positive reactions from important sectors of society, impacted by the firm position of the Attorney General’s Office to bring to justice the perpetrators of acts related to illegal actions.
Indeed, yesterday afternoon, in a row and handcuffed were transferred to the Palace of Justice Federico C. Alvarez, of this province, 18 involved in Operation Falcon, including the communicator Dianabel Gomez.
Operations continued yesterday in Santiago, San Francisco de Macorís and other towns in Cibao, Higuey and Miches.
The name of the communicator had not been revealed among those provided by the Public Ministry. Prosecutors questioned several of the detainees, the first being Dianabel Gomez, who said she is involved in Operation Falcon “to meet a person.”
When she was transferred to her interrogation, the presenter pleaded “innocent” and has assured that her accusation is only “to know a person.”
Meanwhile, her lawyer, Margarida Múñoz, has indicated that Gómez informed her that she was innocent and unaware that the person who was in concubinage with her towards “other situations”, and that now is when she “has aware of many things “.
Among those arrested are Rafael Albert de Jesús, Marisol López Ceballo (Mary); Elva Teresa Polanco, Víctor Elpidio Paulino Herrera, Francisco Linares Pimentel, Adolfo Torres Sanabia, Juli Cèsar Jiménez Talavera and José Alejandro de la Cruz Morales
Also under arrest are Juan José de la Cruz Morales, alias El Michero and El Don; Juan Maldonado Castro (Martial or The Leader); Maria Olimpia Tavares Rodríguez (Oil, the Princess); Lenin Bladimir Torres Bueno and Delfina Assumpció Polanco.
Deputy Attorney General Yeni Berenice Reynoso arrived in the city early yesterday and met with prosecutors to continue investigations into the drug trafficking and money laundering network.
more arrests
Members of the National Directorate of Drug Control (DNCD), accompanied by deputy prosecutors, captured two people who tried to withdraw a large sum of money from a renowned banking institution in Santiago.
The unidentified detainees were possibly linked to the alleged drug trafficking and money laundering network, which was dismantled through Operation Falcon, which began yesterday simultaneously in Santiago, the National District, Santo Domingo and other localities, the Public Ministry. , the DNCD and other state security agencies.
The agents, after intervening with the bank, ordered the customers who were present to leave it and then proceeded to arrest the two people they were looking for.
Violations of domicile in SFM
The National Directorate of Drug Control in the company of prosecutors from Santiago and the National District, yesterday flattened two gas stations in San Francisco de Macorís, which is part of the expansion of Operation Falcon that began simultaneously on Wednesday in various areas of the country and which aims to dismantle a powerful organized crime network.
The establishments were closed and are being monitored by military and DNCD troops.
It was not established whether people were arrested in the operations carried out in San Francisco de Macoris.
Offensive in the East
Several violations of domicile were realized in Miches and Higüey in the continuation of the investigations of the operation Falcon that realizes the authorities, headed by the General Office of the judge advocate general of the Republic.
The operations led by a military contingent broke into the Office of Accounting and Administration Services, located on Calle Pere Livi Cedeño, Trinitària corner, in the Tamarindo de Higüey sector.
During the operation, the PEPCA staff was inside for several hours, looking for evidence against those involved in the Falcón case.
It transpired that in this office about a year ago several affidavits were made to one of the insiders.
In images spread on the networks and videos you can see several soldiers dragging boxes of documents.