The director general of the Police, Major General Ney Aldrin Bautista Almonte, says that one of the lead suspects in the robbery of RD$36 million to a G4S security company cash truck, Manuel Antonio Pérez Sánchez (Elién) traveled abroad on the day after the robbery that took place at the Curva de Billeya on the Baní-Azua highway. Bautista made the announcement when making public that another suspect, 25-year old Misael Vólquez Espinosa has turned himself in to the authorities in the presence of his mother, and Moneidy Gómez, of the local Human Rights Commission; Benny Rodríguez, secretary general of the Journalists Guild, among others.
Vólquez’s brother, the Barahona Jail inmate Darbinson Vólquez Espinosa, is suspect of having planned the crime from inside the jail using his mobile phone.
The Police has arrested several others in the case, but say they have only recovered RD$5.7 million of the RD$36 million stolen from the truck. Bautista suspects Pérez Sánchez knows the whereabouts of the missing cash.
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El Dia
25 April 2018
