DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

They looked like ordinary offices. Operating under legitimate-sounding names like Agnes Travel SRL and Urtarte’s Paradise Call Center, these facilities in Santiago and Puerto Plata weren’t selling vacations. Instead, they served as the engine for “Operation Discovery,” one of the most sophisticated digital fraud networks ever dismantled in the Caribbean.

In its coverage on the conclusion of the case, Diario Libre questions that the Dominican judiciary has issued what is described as minor sentencing benefiting the locals incriminated in the case.

The Dominican judiciary has begun handing down the sentences and the outcomes have sparked debate over whether the punishment fits the scale of the crime.

Diario Libre reports that the mastermind, Miguel Ángel Camilo Pérez (alias “Cilo” or “Milo”), identified as the brain of the Dominican operation, was sentenced to seven years...