{"id":470855,"date":"2025-06-09T21:01:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T01:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/investigation-into-alleged-media-extortion-structure-headed-by-angel-martinez\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T21:01:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T01:01:38","slug":"investigation-into-alleged-media-extortion-structure-headed-by-angel-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/investigation-into-alleged-media-extortion-structure-headed-by-angel-martinez\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation into alleged media extortion structure headed by \u00c1ngel Mart\u00ednez"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Santo Domingo<\/strong> \u2013 The <strong>Public Ministry<\/strong> has intensified investigations into an alleged extortion and blackmail network that, according to preliminary reports, would be headed by the communicator <strong>\u00c1ngel Mart\u00ednez,<\/strong> popularly known as <strong>\u201cEl Detective.\u201d<\/strong>\n\nAuthorities indicate that this structure allegedly used digital platforms to defame and exert pressure on public figures, with the intention of obtaining economic benefits. The network includes his son, &#8220;\u00c1ngel Eduardo Mart\u00ednez Est\u00e9vez;&#8221; the communicator Claudia P\u00e9rez, alias &#8220;La Tora;&#8221; retired general Rafael Percival Pe\u00f1a; the journalist &#8220;Fernando Pe\u00f1a;&#8221; Luis Alfredo Cabrera (&#8220;Kapullet&#8221;) and &#8220;Jos\u00e9 Macarallo.&#8221;\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/Fiscal\u00eda solicita peritaje a videos de \u00c1ngel Mart\u00ednez por presunta difamaci\u00f3n digital\">http:\/\/Fiscal\u00eda solicita peritaje a videos de \u00c1ngel Mart\u00ednez por presunta difamaci\u00f3n digital<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nSources from the Public Ministry indicated that economic transactions have been identified between those involved, which reinforces the suspicions about the organized nature of the operation.\n\nThis Sunday, \u00c1ngel Mart\u00ednez was arrested for the second time after failing to comply with a summons from the Santiago Prosecutor&#8217;s Office. Previously, he had been detained in Puerto Plata on May 26th after being declared in default for not attending a hearing in a lawsuit filed by the president of Indotel, Guido G\u00f3mez Mazara.\n\nMart\u00ednez faces multiple lawsuits for defamation, insult, alleged extortion, and cybercrimes, in accordance with the provisions of the Dominican Penal Code, Law 53-07 on High Technology Crimes and Offenses, and Law 61-32 on Expression and Dissemination of Thought.\n\nAmong the plaintiffs are businessman Arnulfo de Jes\u00fas Guti\u00e9rrez Almonte, communicator Vargavila River\u00f3n, former Vice Minister of Environment Milagros De Camps (to whom Mart\u00ednez offered a public apology), and the current Minister of Interior and Police, Faride Raful. Investigations are ongoing.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo \u2013 The Public Ministry has intensified investigations into an alleged extortion and blackmail network that, according to preliminary reports, would be headed by the communicator \u00c1ngel Mart\u00ednez, popularly known as \u201cEl Detective.\u201d Authorities indicate that this structure allegedly used digital platforms to defame and exert pressure on public figures, with the intention of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":470856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[40798],"class_list":["post-470855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news","tag-angel-martinez"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1Yur","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/angel-martinez-5.png","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/angel-martinez-5.png"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}