{"id":494427,"date":"2025-12-12T17:57:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/14-members-of-money-laundering-network-are-imposed-a-year-of-preventive-prison\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T17:57:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:57:34","slug":"14-members-of-money-laundering-network-are-imposed-a-year-of-preventive-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/justice\/14-members-of-money-laundering-network-are-imposed-a-year-of-preventive-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"14 members of money laundering network are imposed a year of preventive prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>SANTO DOMINGO .\u2014<\/strong> A judge in Santo Domingo Este imposed one year of pre-trial detention on 14 members of a network that laundered assets from drug trafficking, dismantled in November through a joint operation with the National Drug Control Directorate (DNCD).\n\nThe court declared the case to be of <strong>complex processing<\/strong> and ordered the imprisonment of the accused <strong>Jos\u00e9 Augusto Rodr\u00edguez S\u00e1nchez (El Rubio), Melvin Manuel Fis Taveras, Wilmer Evangelista Rumaldo, \u00c1ngel David F\u00e9lix Cuevas, Francisco Alberto Paulino Castro (Francis or El Compadre), Edwin Alberto Mej\u00eda Guerrero, Fernando Javier Castro Ramos, Wilson Tom\u00e1s Altagracia de la Cruz, Leandro Manuel Arias Santana (Berni), Cleudi Zapata, Manuel Almancio Moreno de los Santos, Fernando de Jes\u00fas Ventura Segura, Mauricio Josu\u00e9 Castillo and Jos\u00e9 Alberto L\u00f3pez Alc\u00e1ntara (Bururun).<\/strong>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/entretenimiento\/tamara-martinez-enfrentara-juicio\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"579797\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Economic guarantee, exit ban and periodic presentation imposed on T\u00e1mara Mart\u00ednez for Gaby Desangles case<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nAmong those arrested are <strong>employees and contractors of the Caucedo Multimodal Port<\/strong>, who allegedly used their access levels to facilitate the trafficking of drugs and other illegal movements linked to the criminal structure.\n\nThe coercive measure was requested by prosecutors <strong>Pedro Medina Quezada, Luis Alberto Garc\u00eda, Hitler S\u00e1nchez, and Jos\u00e9 Manuel Calzado<\/strong>, and was imposed by the judge of the Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of Santo Domingo Este, <strong>Leomar Cruz Quezada<\/strong>, who ordered that the preventive prison be served in the <strong>Correction and Rehabilitation Center (CCR) of San Pedro de Macor\u00eds<\/strong>.\n\nIn the case of <strong>Manuel Almancio Moreno de los Santos<\/strong>, the court ordered house arrest.\n\nAlso arrested in this process were <strong>Jos\u00e9 Francisco Sabino Castillo, Jonathan Ditr\u00e9n (El Brujo)<\/strong> and the again-mentioned <strong>Fernando de Jes\u00fas Ventura Segura<\/strong>, who also received one year of pre-trial detention and were included in the complex declared file.\n\nThe authorities explained that these measures are the result of <strong>several months of investigation<\/strong>, carried out with the support of the <strong>Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)<\/strong> of the United States. During the interventions, <strong>200 packages of cocaine<\/strong> were seized, with the collaboration of State intelligence units and the Military Security of the Multimodal Port Caucedo, on November 7th.\n\nThe arrests took place during a <strong>large-scale operation<\/strong> that included <strong>36 raids<\/strong>, carried out by <strong>40 prosecutors and 312 DNCD agents<\/strong> in different parts of the National District, Santo Domingo (including Boca Chica) and San Pedro de Macor\u00eds.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTO DOMINGO .\u2014 A judge in Santo Domingo Este imposed one year of pre-trial detention on 14 members of a network that laundered assets from drug trafficking, dismantled in November through a joint operation with the National Drug Control Directorate (DNCD). 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