Authorities have established that Natanael Castro, the alleged right-hand man of César Emilio Peralta, belonged to the Dominican Army with the rank of sergeant.
The Ministerio Público points out that Castro was dishonorably canceled on October 21, 2015, as a result of an internal investigation that led to the detection of his “alleged links with the criminal organization led by César the Abuser ”.
However, despite being dishonorably canceled for serving a drug organization, the man remained at large operating within the Abuser’s network.
Natanael Castro, known as “el Nato”, is accused of acting as Cesar Peralta’s head of security and communication channel with figures of international art and entertainment, especially with urban artists.
The Public Ministry points out that Castro Cordero allegedly collaborated, assisted, assisted, facilitated and transported various modalities with the aim of money laundering for the benefit of César Peralta.
Castro Cordero was sentenced to three months of pre-trial detention after being signaled to be part of the red line led by César Emilio Peralta (César el Abusador).
The court of permanent attention of the National District has ordered that the defendant fulfills the preventive prison in the penitentiary of the Victory, after accepting a request presented / displayed in this sense by the Public Ministry.
The imputation lawyer, Joaquín Pérez, described the decision of the court of extreme, to the gentleman that his client that does not have to do with the accusation of laundering of activity and that will appeal the decision in the next days .
The investigations of the Public Ministry indicate that since 2013 Natanael Castro Cordero worked with César Emilio Peralta, for whom he was head of security and a head communication channel also known by nicknames such as El Gordo, Cacón, El Don and El Home.
Natanael Castro Cordero was present while she was in a restaurant located on Avenida Venezuela in Santo Domingo Este, after having been a fugitive since August 20, 2019
On August 21, 2019, a day after the raids on the property of César Emilio Peralta, Natanael Castro Cordero closed a current account that he put in the Banco Popular.
Eight days after the raids, Castro Cordero closed another account at the Scotiabank, where he placed 228,154 Dominican pesos. “It should be noted that this account is twice as safe as with foreign currencies and that for 2017-2019, foreign exchange purchases are verified,” says the prosecutor’s office of the capital in its investigation.
Within the bank account, which was open from May 28, 2017, “there is a large fluctuation of money movements during the period 2017 to 2019, in this account is verified the method used for laundering activities such as the ‘smurf’, which consists of executing financial transactions in a specific pattern to avoid the creation of reports required by law, ”the document states.
Another of the accounts where the pitufeo method is registered was of the Caribbean Multiple Bank, where Natanael Castro Cordero presented two banking products being one savings where she owned 604,553 pesos.
Investigations indicate that Natanael Castro Cordero had registered a payroll account at Banreservas in which she was not receiving a salary, without boarding received credits for other items and for an incident detected at the Office of Control of Foreign Bonds (OFAC), for its acronyms in English.
Within the aforementioned drug trafficking network, he is accused of conducting sales and money transfer negotiations, firearms, drugs, vehicles and clothing of the criminal organization, all according to the request for coercive action made by the Prosecutor’s Office of the National District, for which I will send him to prison for three months.
César Emilio Peralta interacted by telephone with other people, who were previously contacted by Castro Cordero and passed the phone to his head to talk, which shows that the defendant acted as a communication channel, according to the Public Ministry .
In these calls Nato referred to Caesar with the pseudonyms “Don or Mi Don”, as a way to cover him up in negotiations for presentations at La Kuora, a nightclub located in the sector of Villa Consuelo, which was raided on 20 August 2019 by the National Directorate of Drug Control and the Public Ministry.