The Judge of the Second Chamber of the Criminal Court of the National District, Clara Luz Almonte Gómez, imposed a real coercive measure of 5 million dollars or its equivalent of 300 million pesos on the companies Dynex Energy Group and Dynex Energy RD, which brought the Karpowership floating power plant to the country, which generates and supplies electricity directly to the land-based transmission grids and operates in Azua.
The court authorized the attachment of assets against Carlos Matamoros Bregni, representative in the Dominican Republic of Karpowership, of the Turkish group Karadeniz Holding, and against the companies Dynex Energy.
The claim: the agreed-upon participation in the project that currently operates the Turkish barges in Azua.
The judge authorized the company Transcaribbean Energy Partners & Consulting (TEPC) to place a garnishment, a conservatory attachment, and a provisional judicial mortgage on the assets of Carlos Matamoros Bregni and the companies Dynex Energy Group and Dynex Energy RD, S.R.L., up to US$5,000,000.00.
The decision, Resolution No. 040-2026-TRMC-00006-A, of May 26, 2026, was notified to the parties on July 2.
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Magistrate Almonte Gómez based the measure on the fact that there is “a justified credit in principle” in favor of the plaintiff and on the need to “avoid the imminent insolvency of the accused.”
The claim arises from the agreement of May 25, 2018, through which Dynex designated, on an exclusive basis, the plaintiff and/or the corporate vehicle created by him—Transcaribbean Energy Partners & Consulting (TEPC), identified as such in Annex A of the agreement itself—as the local partner for the thermal generation project in the Dominican Republic, with a distribution of 55% for the plaintiff and 45% for Dynex of the funds generated by the project. That project materialized: the two 188-megawatt barges of Karpowership Dominican Republic operate today from Puerto Viejo, Los Negros beach, in Azua, according to the concession recommended by Resolution CNE-CD-006-2023. A judicial assistance request processed through the Superintendency of Banks documented eighteen (18) transfers from Karpowership to Dynex between March and April 2025. According to the accusation, Mr. Matamoros Bregni and the Dynex companies received RD$15,098,459.04 and US$3,098,396.71 derived from the project, amounts on which the plaintiff was entitled to the agreed 55%. Despite having collected those millionaire sums, they have not complied with what was agreed: that share has never been paid.
Extrajudicial claims did not prosper, which forced the plaintiff to go to court.
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Six years of work behind the agreed project was not a free concession.
For more than six (6) years, the firm Transcaribbean Energy Partners & Consulting invested its own time and resources in making the project viable: international trips paid for by the firm, direct participation in technical studies, and the introduction of the technical experts, consultants, and institutional contacts in the electricity and environmental sectors necessary to materialize it. That work opened the door to the Project.
“The barges are off the coast of Azua, generating power and collecting payment every month. Our client invested six years of work and his own resources to make that project a reality, and what he received was silence. It was billed, but the agreed-upon amount was not paid.
“The way to stop these seizures is only one: pay,” stated Dr. J. Lora Castillo and Lic. Jorge G. Lora Olivares, attorneys for the plaintiff.
Among the authorized measures is the garnishment, which by its nature reaches not only the assets of the garnished parties, but also the sums owed to them by third parties. In this case, it includes pending and future payments derived from the project’s operation, which remain subject to withholding up to the amount of US$5,000,000.00. Any third party who is notified is obligated to withhold said sums and not to disburse them in favor of the garnished parties.
The decision imposed as real coercive measures consisting of a garnishment, conservatory attachment, and provisional judicial mortgage on the movable and immovable property of the defendant, Carlos Matamoros Bregni, and the companies Dynex Energy Group and Dynex Energy RD, at the request of the attorneys, Dr. Lora Castillo and Licdo. Lora Olivares.
Likewise, the judge rejected the request of the plaintiff party constituted as a civil actor, regarding the imposition of a personal coercion measure consisting of a travel ban for Matamoros Bregni, since the mere status of the defendant as a foreigner does not constitute a presumption of flight and the petitioner has not provided [evidence].
