Santiago.- The First Instruction Court of the judicial district of Santiago sentenced this Monday to prison terms of up to seven years the members of the cybercrime structure dismantled in Operation Discovery 2.0, after finding them guilty of defrauding hundreds of elderly people in the United States through electronic fraud, with which they managed to steal millions of dollars.
In the sentence, 17 natural persons and two legal entities were convicted, after their participation in a transnational criminal network operating from Dominican territory was proven.
Among those sentenced is Miguel Ángel Camilo Pérez, alias Camilo or Milo, identified as one of the ringleaders of the network, who received seven years in prison.
Also, Freddy William Urtarte (Metra), Juan Armando Vásquez Ramírez (Peligro), Erick Ángel Peña Núñez, Hayler Andrés Olivares Núñez (Tripplehmusic), Kelvin Antonio Carmona Sánchez (Calvin) and Deuris Antonio Franco de la Cruz were sentenced to four years in prison.
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The court also imposed four years of suspended prison sentences on Jonathan Jesús Rodríguez Bonilla (Tan Tan), Wilson Miguel Rodríguez Suero, Lorena Franchesca Antigua Pérez, Leslie Agnes Succart González, Glorisel Martínez Peralta (Gloria), Yenny Carolina Corniel Henríquez (Jenny), Arlin Josefina Rosa Rosario (Tiny), Ramón Esterling Polanco Leclerc (Ray or La Línea), Arnaldo Manuel Rosario Nolasco, and Luis Manuel Martínez (White Boy).
Regarding legal entities, the court ordered the judicial dissolution of Agnes Travel SRL and Urtarte’s Paradise Call Center SRL, upon verifying that they functioned as operational fronts for the criminal network.
As part of the sentence, the court also ordered the millionaire seizure of vehicles, properties, bank accounts, and cash, linked to the illicit activities. The defendants were found guilty of violating Law 53-07 on High Technology Crimes and Offenses and Law 155-17 on Money Laundering.
The Discovery Operation 2.0, launched in 2023, included more than 15 simultaneous raids in the provinces of Santiago and Puerto Plata. The investigation was developed by the Prosecutor’s Office of Santiago, with the support of the General Directorate of Prosecution, the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) of the United States, and the Special Division of Investigation of Transnational Crimes (DEIDET).
Prosecutor Warlyn Alberto Tavares Reyes, representing the Public Ministry, highlighted that the decision was issued with the authority of a matter irrevocably judged, and emphasized that during the process it was proven that the convicted operated clandestine call centers, camouflaged as service centers, from where they executed systematic campaigns of technological fraud directed primarily at retired US citizens, stripping them of the savings accumulated over decades.
For this case, 11 people were extradited to the United States, where they face legal proceedings related to the same criminal structure.
