The Sixth Investigative Court ratified the coercive measures against all the accused in the case named Operación Nido (Operation Nest) by the Attorney General Office. The network would have scammed mostly Dominican expats living in New York for around RD$700 million.
The prosecution had ordered the arrest of the main accused Emmanuel Rivera Ledesma in July 2023, but never acted on the order until victims of the fraud sought the support of leading media in the Dominican Republic that followed up and motivated the authorities to act. The affected also took their case to US authorities and began a campaign to discourage Dominicans living abroad from investing in real estate projects. The major complaint of those affected was the lack of support action for the claimants in the local judiciary when proof of the scams was presented by local lawyers. Rivera Ledesma was not arrested...
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