2003News

DA complies, suspends warrants

The District Attorney for Santo Domingo, Maximo Aristy Caraballo, announced yesterday that he has suspended the arrest warrants for two former bankers indicted in a RD$20-billion fraud within Bancredito. Aristy Caraballo said that he was following a Presidential request to review the indictment before jailing the accused. The complaints against Manuel Arturo Pellerano Pena and Juan Felipe Mendoza were read by Jose Lois Malkum and Julio Cross before Aristy Caraballo, charging the bankers with falsification of documents, abuse of trust and violating the Monetary and Finance Law 183-02. Aristy Caraballo said that the arrest warrants were put on hold by order of the Attorney General and the President. The District Attorney told reporters from the Listin Diario that he did not feel that the President’s interest in the case represented a conflict of the different state entities.