DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic’s Public Ministry (Ministerio Público) has established a new specialized agency, the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office Against the Illicit Trafficking of Narcotic Drugs (Procuraduría Antidrogas), in a strategic move to escalate and deepen the country’s fight against drug trafficking.

The creation of the unit, requested by Prosecutor General Yeni Berenice Reynoso and approved by the Public Ministry’s Superior Council, underscores a key institutional objective: dismantling criminal structures involved in drug trafficking and money laundering. The agency aims to seize the entirety of illicit assets to prevent their reuse in organized crime, which fuels public insecurity.

This new office strengthens an anti-narcotics strategy that has already yielded historic results. In recent years, the Dominican Republic has set records for...