Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Republic Public Prosecutor’s Workplace secured convictions in opposition to 17 people and two authorized entities concerned in a transnational prison community dismantled beneath Operation Discovery 2.0, an investigation launched in 2023 that uncovered a large-scale scheme of fraud, identification theft, and cash laundering concentrating on retired and aged U.S. residents.
Clandestine Name Facilities and Cyber Fraud
Prosecutor Warlyn Alberto Tavares Reyes defined that the convicted people operated from unlawful name facilities that posed as professional service facilities. Utilizing superior technological instruments, the community carried out systematic cyber fraud campaigns, stealing life financial savings from aged victims in the USA.
Worldwide Cooperation and Proof
The investigation was carried out in coordination with U.S. authorities, together with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Particular Division for Transnational Crime Investigation (DEDIDET). Authorities collected greater than 450 items of proof, reminiscent of court-authorized wiretaps, paperwork, digital units, and witness testimonies, supporting costs of prison conspiracy, aggravated fraud, identification theft, and cash laundering.Worldwide judicial cooperation additionally enabled the extradition and prosecution of suspects linked to the scheme from U.S. territory.
Asset Seizures and Firm Dissolution
Dominican courts ordered the judicial dissolution of Agnes Journey SRL and Urtarte’s Paradise Name Middle SRL, corporations used to facilitate the fraud. Authorities seized over RD$2 million in money, US$84,000, automobiles, firearms, digital tools, jewellery, and actual property related to the prison operation.
Sentences for Key Figures
Amongst these convicted, Miguel Ángel Camilo Pérez (Camilo/Milo), recognized as one of many fundamental leaders of the community, acquired a seven-year jail sentence.Others, together with Freddy William Urtarte (Metra), Juan Armando Vásquez Ramírez (Peligro), Erick Ángel Peña Núñez, Hayler Andrés Olivares Núñez (Tripplehmusic), Kelvin Antonio Carmona Sánchez (Calvin), and Deuris Antonio Franco De La Cruz, have been sentenced to 4 years in jail. A number of extra defendants acquired four-year suspended sentences.