National District Prosecutor Yeni Berenice Reynoso has revealed that the executives of the collapsed Peravia Bank are under investigation, and that money laundering is suspected. She said she had received several writs suggesting possible fraud at the bank, affecting account holders. She said she is working closely with the Superintendence of Bank and the Monetary Board.
Listin Diario reports that there is no exit ban of the bank executives. A source said that Gabriel Arturo Jimenez Aray, one of the bank’s top executives, flew to Atlanta on 20 November 2014 and has not returned. Another executive, Jose Luis Santorro, was known to have left on 19 November via Panama, but returned to the DR the following day.
The Peravia Savings and Loans bank is the same entity that was involved in last month’s bizarre attempted kidnapping of a Venezuelan businessman who came to the country to retrieve millions of dollars, supposedly owed to him by the bank.
Hundreds of people visited the main offices of the Banco Peravia de Ahorros y Credito on Winston Churchill Avenue in Santo Domingo.
News reports are speculating that the Superintendence of Banks may have been lenient or negligent toward this financial entity.
As reported in El Dia, preliminary investigations by the prosecutors revealed that savings were being diverted to third party private accounts abroad.
http://www.listindiario.com/la-republica/2014/11/25/346696/Fiscalia-DN-profundiza-la-investigacion-en-contra-de-ejecutivos-Banco
Ejecutivos Peravia desviaban ahorros de clientes a otra cuenta
http://www.listindiario.com/la-republica/2014/11/25/346697/Ejecutivos-del-Banco-Peravia-salieron-del-pais
http://www.diariolibre.com/economia/2014/11/26/i899131_clientes-abarrotan-sede-del-banco-peravia-para-validar-sus-ahorros.html