DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

A Haitian man, Pablo Selmo de la Cruz, alias Félix Pie, has been identified as the ringleader of an international identity fraud network that provided counterfeit Dominican identification documents to foreigners, Diario Libre reports. In a recent crackdown, a Dominican court ordered the pre-trial detention of several individuals involved in this extensive operation.

The Barahona Permanent Attention Court imposed a three-month pre-trial detention order on several individuals accused of being part of an alleged network dedicated to the falsification of public documents, primarily identity cards, for foreigners.

Among those sent to prison were Dominicans Divisay Altagracia Amparo de Vásquez, José Alfredo de los Santos Gómez, and Haitian nationals Pablo Selmo de la Cruz, alias Félix Pie, and Yonel Raphael. Additionally, Modesto Ogando Alcántara and Nicauri Liselot Bone...