{"id":502576,"date":"2026-03-19T21:14:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T01:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/colonel-andres-pacheco-varela-will-remain-under-arrest-for-corruption\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T21:14:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T01:14:44","slug":"colonel-andres-pacheco-varela-will-remain-under-arrest-for-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/colonel-andres-pacheco-varela-will-remain-under-arrest-for-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonel Andr\u00e9s Pacheco Varela will remain under arrest for corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo.-<\/strong> In response to the Public Ministry’s request, a judge confirmed the house arrest<\/a> imposed as a coercive measure on Colonel Andr\u00e9s Pacheco, prosecuted for administrative corruption in the network dismantled last year with Operation Lobo.\n\nLitigating prosecutor Rosa Mar\u00eda Pichardo said that to ratify the measure, the court took into account the seriousness of the events documented by the Public Ministry, as well as issues based on the risk of flight.\n\n“It poses a danger because it could hinder the investigations against him and against the criminal scheme that this case has,” Pichardo told reporters who approached her as she left the court in the Palace of Justice of Ciudad Nueva.\n\nThe Public Ministry, represented by litigating prosecutors Rosa Mar\u00eda Pichardo, Elizabeth Paredes and Yoneivy Gonz\u00e1lez, requested Judge Yanibet Rivas, of the Sixth Instruction Court, to maintain the coercive measure imposed on Colonel Pacheco Varela, one of the accused.\n\n\n
We recommend reading:Man who killed Lieutenant Colonel and injured two others at Norfolk University in Virginia identified<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\nThe Wolf Operation was launched by the Public Ministry against a bribery network that led to the arrest of military personnel and civilians.\nJudge Rivas rejected the defendant’s request and upheld the restriction of freedom measure for the accused.\nAlso, during the hearing, First Lieutenant Wellington Peralta Santos of the Army requested a permit from the court, which was granted.\n\nAccording to the prosecution, the criminal structure negatively impacted institutions such as the National Institute for Comprehensive Care for Early Childhood (Inaipi), the National Health Insurance (Senasa), and the electricity distribution companies EdeNorte, EdeEste, and EdeSur.\n\nAmong those involved in the serious events that affected several state institutions are retired Major General Carlos Ambrosio Robles D\u00edaz; Colonels Luis Ernesto Vicioso Bocio, Francisco Guar\u00edn Fern\u00e1ndez and El\u00edas Cama\u00f1o P\u00e9rez, Air Force Colonel Yorbyn Eduardo Eufracio Aybar; National Police Colonel Ram\u00f3n Quezada Ortiz; businessman Quilvio Bienvenido Rodr\u00edguez Gonz\u00e1lez and civilian Bol\u00edvar Nicol\u00e1s Fern\u00e1ndez Espinal.\n\nThe defendants face charges of bribery, criminal association, fraud against the State, and money laundering, in accordance with articles 177, 178, 179, paragraph; 180, 265, 266, and 405 of the Dominican Penal Code. They are also charged with violating article 146, numeral 1, of the Constitution of the Republic, which prohibits administrative corruption.\n\n\n
You can also read:Colonel William Batista hands over police command in Jarabacoa to Colonel J. Gonz\u00e1lez<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\nRegarding money laundering, they are accused based on articles 3, numerals 1, 2 and 3; article 4, numeral 8, and article 9, numerals 1, 2 and 4, of Law no. 155-17 against Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santo Domingo.- In response to the Public Ministry’s request, a judge confirmed the house arrest imposed as a coercive measure on Colonel Andr\u00e9s Pacheco, prosecuted for administrative corruption in the network dismantled last year with Operation Lobo. Litigating prosecutor Rosa Mar\u00eda Pichardo said that to ratify the measure, the court took into account the seriousness […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133556,"featured_media":0,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-26K4","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yerandi Santana","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-13-at-5.35.07-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502576","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\/133556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}