{"id":524305,"date":"2026-09-28T10:42:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T14:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/three-dominicans-investigated-in-panama-for-alleged-recruitment-of-people-to-fight-in-russia\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T10:42:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T14:42:59","slug":"three-dominicans-investigated-in-panama-for-alleged-recruitment-of-people-to-fight-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/three-dominicans-investigated-in-panama-for-alleged-recruitment-of-people-to-fight-in-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Dominicans investigated in Panama for alleged recruitment of people to fight in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Panama.\u2013<\/strong> Three Dominican citizens remain detained in Panama while they are <a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Panam%C3%A1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigated<\/a> for their alleged participation in a structure dedicated to recruiting people to travel to Russia and participate in the war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The investigated individuals were identified as <strong>Joselyn Ram\u00edrez, Rolando Newball, and Mar\u00eda In\u00e9s Garc\u00eda<\/strong>, upon whom a guarantee judge imposed provisional detention last Friday, September 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to information published by the Panamanian newspaper <em>La Prensa<\/em>, the Prosecutor&#8217;s Office maintained during a hearing that the three Dominicans were allegedly linked to activities involving the recruitment of Panamanian citizens for the purpose of transporting them to Russian territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We recommend reading:<a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/internacionales\/bombardeo-birmania-33-civiles\/\">Bombing in Burma leaves at least 33 civilians dead and 36 injured, according to guerrilla<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More than US$800 thousand in transfers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the hearing, the Panamanian Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office asserted that the defendants had allegedly received <strong>more than US$800,000 in transfers<\/strong> presumably related to the recruitment operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The authorities are investigating the origin and destination of those resources, as well as the scope of the activities that the Dominicans were allegedly carrying out in Panamanian territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ram\u00edrez, Newball, and Garc\u00eda are facing investigations for the alleged crimes of <strong>organized crime and human trafficking for the purpose of labor exploitation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The imposition of provisional detention corresponds to a precautionary measure while investigations proceed and does not imply a declaration of guilt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The process remains in the hands of the Panamanian judicial authorities, who are seeking to determine how the alleged scheme <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/internacionales\/omsofensiva-huti-838-muertos\/\">operated<\/a> and how many people may have been contacted to travel to Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panama.\u2013 Three Dominican citizens remain detained in Panama while they are investigated for their alleged participation in a structure dedicated to recruiting people to travel to Russia and participate in the war against Ukraine. The investigated individuals were identified as Joselyn Ram\u00edrez, Rolando Newball, and Mar\u00eda In\u00e9s Garc\u00eda, upon whom a guarantee judge imposed provisional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":524307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[95],"tags":[44889,14665,44890,40414],"class_list":["post-524305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","tag-joselyn-ramirez","tag-panama","tag-rolando-newball","tag-russia"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2cox","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/images-2026-09-28T103649.466.jpg","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":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/images-2026-09-28T103649.466.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524305","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=524305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}