Deputy Attorney General and chief prosecutor, Yeni Berenice Reynoso said on Friday, 1 October that several high-ranking military officers are being investigated for their possible participation in the Operation Falcon money laundering and drug trafficking network.
The military and police have extensive surveillance capacity in the Dominican Republic. The past Medina government had enhanced this capacity and installed an advanced C5i intelligence center for surveillance of the entire country. Yet military and police officers have not been among those raided or charged in the Operation Falcon.
Meanwhile, Minister of Defense Luciano Diaz Morfa has requested that legislators allow that criminal charges against the military be heard in a special military court and not by regular justice as at present.
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