Judge Margarita Cristo Cristo has ordered the immediate release of three Pakistanis, Mahmood Majeed Khan, Junaid Khan and Rehman Khan Niazi who were accused of being involved in a people smuggling ring, but whose arrest was carried out illegally.
Their Dominican associate, Alfonso Fernandez Tirado, will have his remand case heard on 15 May.
According to assistant prosecutor Luis Arias Encarnacion, the Pakistanis were arrested in a house, but there was a fundamental error in the way the raid was carried out, and the arrest was ruled to be illegal.
Majeed Khan was allegedly using the Dominican Republic as a jumping off point for sending people to the United States and Canada using false documentation provided by people working for the State and had previously completed a jail sentence in the United States for the same crime.
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