SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic.- Attorney Office of Santo Domingo asked in the coming hours, coercive measure against six former police officers accused of criminal association for public road robbery with violence at gunpoint, in addition to money laundering.
The former lieutenant colonel Elvin Alcantara Lima, a former lieutenant colonel Juan David Rodriguez, former captain Pedro Cleto Rosario, former second lieutenant Juan Manuel Roman Market, the former sergeant Federico Armando Aybar Fortuna and former police corporal Luis Manuel Zapata, are accused of violating Articles 265, 266, 147, 148, 379, 382, 383, 386-2 of the Criminal Code and Law 72-01 Dominican laundering.
The event occurred on May 26, 2015, when the Dominican citizen, resident in the Netherlands María Peña introduced the country the sum of 370,000 euros (RD $ 20, 350,000) illegally via the Las Americas International Airport, Dr. José Francisco Peña Gómez.
The defendant Juan David Rodriguez, who served as Lieutenant Colonel of the National Police, based in the Department of Counterfeit Santo Domingo, was aware of the income of that money.
As in his functions entrusted Counterfeit could do surveillance operations and patrols on the route from Las Americas International Airport not, contacted the accused Elvin Lima Alcantara, who served as deputy director of Criminal Investigations This part, based in Detachment of the Eixample Happiness, Los Mina, Santo Domingo.
Alcantara Lima organized a team to perform the operation, for what Cleto called Pedro Rosario, Federico Armando Aybar Fortuna and Luciano Luis Manuel Zapata, who aboard a van of the National Police, arrested María Peña and another vehicle that accompanied and he stole the money that was found in a suitcase in the trunk.
Then the money is distributed in a cabin of the San Isidro highway in the municipality of Santo Domingo.
The prosecution of Santo Domingo says it has sufficient evidence to prove the criminal responsibility of each accused in the process this time.
