Santo Domingo.-The Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of the National District imposed a year of preventive prison against nine people accused of being part of an alleged criminal structure dedicated to committing fraud against Banco BHD, causing losses exceeding RD$200 million.
The coercive measure was ordered by Judge Rigoberto Sena, who also declared the case complex due to the magnitude of the investigation and the number of defendants involved.
Those sent to prison are Luis Miguel García Peña, Pedro Andrés García Pérez, Luis Guillermo García Faña, Pedro Reynaldo Bello Pérez, Julio Antonio García Faña, Francis Michael Laureano Marte, Juan Antonio Ureña Geraldo, Kaury Miguel Lazala Brazobán and Jefry Leonardo Cepeda Núñez, who must serve the measure in the Las Parras Correction and Rehabilitation Center.
While the defendant Elsa Sthefanya Sánchez Fernández was sent to the Najayo Women’s Correction and Rehabilitation Center.
The investigation is led by the National Directorate of Financial Crime Investigation of the General Prosecution Directorate of the Public Ministry, headed by the Attorney General Lewina Tavárez Gil. Prosecutor Rafael Reyes Cabreja and auditor Margaret Cabrera Morillo also participated in the hearing.
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According to the Public Ministry, the accused were part of a structure dedicated to carrying out fraudulent operations that affected the aforementioned financial entity.
The investigation began after an extensive operation carried out in different parts of Greater Santo Domingo by the Public Ministry, in coordination with the Cyber Police Area Directorate (DICAT), attached to the Central Directorate of Criminal Investigation of the National Police.
