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The court reserved the ruling for tomorrow, Thursday, August 28 at 9:00 in the morning.
Santo Domingo.- The Public Ministry (MP) requested sentences of up to 10 years in prison against the members of the criminal network dismantled through Operation Gavilán, who face charges of bribery, elimination and alteration of the criminal record of hundreds of people from the Public Ministry's database.
The accusing body, represented by prosecutors Andrés Mena, Eduardo Velázquez and Miguel Crucey, presented before the Fourth Collegiate Tribunal of the National District that the network dedicated to the alteration of records benefited hitmen, drug traffickers, sexual offenders, defendants for gender violence, kidnapping and adulteration of alcoholic beverages, even going so far as to erase the criminal records of those sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Prosecutors pointed out that the defendants also moved illicit money through family members and associates, acquiring goods and services. With digital, testimonial, documentary, material, audiovisual, and expert evidence incorporated into the trial, they requested to impose custodial sentences and financial sanctions according to the degree of participation and the seriousness of the facts, which prove, without a doubt, the criminal responsibility of the defendants.
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In this regard, they requested that Pilar Yrenes Medina Trinidad de Dotel, Dilcia Argentina Núñez Santos, José Ramón Quezada Carmona, Víctor Gilberto Mercedes Gómez, Yokaira Elizabeth Carmona, Romanqui Alexander Dotel Medina and Luis Peña Cedeño be sentenced to 10 years in prison and to pay fines equivalent to 100 minimum wages in the public sector. In addition, that the latter be disqualified from holding public office for a period of five years.
Regarding Mártires Rosario Reyes, they requested seven years of prison, of which three years and six months are to be served under house arrest and three years and six months suspended, in accordance with the rules established in article 41 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CPP). In addition, they requested the payment of a fine of five minimum wages in the public sector.
In the case of Alfredo Mirambeaux, the Public Ministry requested eight years in prison, in the form of six years of house arrest and two suspended, also under article 41 of the CPP, and a fine of five minimum wages. Against Rubén Darío Morbán, he requested six years in prison, three of them under house arrest and three suspended under the same article, in addition to a fine of five minimum wages.
For Domingo Julio Santana, he requested five years in prison, in the form of two years and six months of house arrest and two years and six months suspended, in accordance with article 41 of the CPP. In the case of Luis Alfredo Astacio Polanco, he requested six years in prison, of which three years would be served under house arrest and three suspended under article 41 of the CPP, and a fine of five minimum wages in the public sector. These last defendants reached agreements with the Public Ministry and admitted the facts in court.
The Public Ministry also requested the definitive dissolution of the company Nexcon Tecnology, constituted in accordance with the laws of the Dominican Republic, by virtue of the provisions of Law 155-17 on Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing.
Likewise, it requested the seizure of all material evidence provided during the process, as they were instruments, effects, or products of the crime, in accordance with current criminal and procedural law.
Regarding the accused Jancely Estala Arias López, Ashley Darleni Morbán Reyes, and Laudelina Esther Reyes Silva, they requested the application of an opportunity criterion in accordance with article 370 numeral 6 of the CPP, due to the fact that the present process corresponds to a case of complex processing and organized crime.
The judges of the Fourth Collegiate Court, composed of Keyla Pérez Santana, Elías Santini, and Arisleyda Santana, reserved the ruling for this Thursday, August 28, at 9:00 in the morning.
