Casa Blanca Closed by Fiscal and Special Prosecutor for Human Trafficking

bob saunders

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s well as make it more dangerous for those that practice the trade. Better to have it legal and regulated. Prostitution was here long before there were tourists.
 

dv8

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i am still trying to figure out how software stops a chica from selling some poon.

i believe that the software is for tracking pedophilia networks rather than prostitution as such. lots of this stuff is shared/sold/bought online.
 

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About a MILLION USD seized by authorities at Casa Blanca.

As partially translated by google:
Santiago. The prosecution accused of money laundering a group of Venezuelans dedicated to trafficking. During a raid on the nightclub Casa Blanca, Venezuelans found them 11 million pesos in cash and $ 800,000, which in Total amounts to 47 million pesos.

Yesterday, the judge Ingrid Liberato of the Office of Permanent Attention issued 18 months of detention and declared complex the case against three of the five defendants for trafficking. The judge issued arrest warrants against Juan Fernandez Grismelda Acarilis Jolvert Merejo and Venezuelan Jose Ramirez. While against Magdalena Batista and Jairo imposed a financial guarantee of two million pesos each, exit impediment and periodic.

On Thursday night, the Public Ministry intervened place, located in the Santiago-Licey road and found in the Venezuelan establishment 40 women and 5 Colombian. After the case, the Attorney General has been in contact with the Colombian and Venezuelan authorities. Indeed, have started investigations in each country, to suspect that this network does not work alone.

This case is the result of an investigation conducted for more than six months, provided the network identification that captured, recruiting , transferred and retained women to make a profit with them through sexual exploitation. the prosecutor Luisa Liranzo said this made ​​the placement and use in the market of money from illegal activities is investigated. In this regard, the allocation is done is of trafficking in persons for sexual exploitation. This case is the result of an investigation conducted for more than six months, provided the network identification that captured, recruiting, moved and he retained women.
 

AlterEgo

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Today's DR1 News:

RD$47 million seized in Santiago nightclub

El Caribe reports the seizure of RD$47 million from the Venezuelan owners of the Casa Blanca nightclub in Santiago. Attorney General Office prosecutors are accusing three Venezuelans of asset laundering and people trafficking. During a raid on the brothel the suspects were found in possession of RD$11 million and US$800,000 in cash for around RD$47 million. Santiago judge Ingrid Liberato ordered 18 months of pre-trial custody for three of the five suspects. She ordered the owner of the establishment, Juan Fernandez, and Grismelda Acarilis Merejo and Jolvert Jose Ramirez, to serve time in jail, while two others, Magdalena Batista and Jairo Carrera Castillo were allowed to post a RD$2 million bail.

The nightclub, which is located on the Santiago-Licey road, was raided on Friday, 6 May 2016. Prosecutors say that 40 Venezuelan women and five Colombian women were present at the time of the raid. The raid followed a six-month investigation that detected a network that recruited women in Venezuela and Colombia for commercial sexual exploitation in the DR. Prosecutor Luisa Liranzo says that they are investigating the use of money generated from illicit activities for the nightclub's operations.

http://www.elcaribe.com.do/2016/05/09/hallan-47-allanamiento

http://acento.com.do/2016/actualida...anas-colombianas-operarian-red-internacional/
 

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