Justice imposes a guarantee of 4 million pesos on a man for fraud

Santo Domingo.- The Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of the National District imposed a guarantee of 4 million pesos on a man as a coercive measure for electronic fraud and illegal activities in the securities market, the Public Ministry reported this Monday. The Judicial Office also ordered the investigated, Gustavo Alexander Rodríguez Monzón, who was arrested when trying to leave the country on a flight through the Las Américas International Airport (AILA), to periodically appear before the Public Ministry and to be prevented from leaving the country without judicial authorization.

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In the hearing, the chief prosecutor of the National Directorate of Financial Crime Investigation, Elizabeth Tucent Hiraldo, and the prosecutor of that body, Margaret Cabrera Morillo, indicated that between 2022 and 2024 "the accused presented himself to various people as a securities broker in digital investments, without having the proper authorization from the Superintendency of the Securities Market of the Dominican Republic", the Public Ministry indicated in a statement. Through that "false representation, Rodríguez Monzón would have induced the victims to believe that they were safe and regulated operations, managing to capture around RD$5,529,224 and US$41,000.00". "Judge Rigoberto Sena imposed the coercive measure upon establishing the Public Ministry that the defendant violated article 405 of the Dominican Penal Code, article 15 of Law 53-07 on High Technology Crimes and Offenses, and article 351, numeral 4, of Law 249-17, on the Securities Market," explained the Public Ministry.