Three Venezuelans were remanded to three months pre-trial custody on 23 May 2018, by a Santiago city judge. The trio is charged with taking RD$3.2 million pesos in just three days from ATMs throughout the country.
Venezuelans Daniel Alexander Gonzalez, Carlos Eduardo Moronta and Jesus Enrique Formayor are being held in the Rafey Correctional And Rehabilitation Center in Santiago. The three men were arrested in Matanza, in the south part of the city.
According to details offered by the lawyer from the affected Banco Caribe, Luis Leo Nardo Felix Ramos, the three foreigners apparently were part of a gang that preyed on financial and savings-and-loan system In the Dominican Republic.
Banco Caribe lawyer Felix Ramos said that between the 15th and 18th of May these individuals withdrew the amount of RD$3,290,000 pesos using an advanced technology that tricks the ATMs into thinking that the withdrawal is for RD$100 when in reality the sum withdrawn is RD$40,000.
The lawyer for the Banco Caribe told reporters that in Santiago when they were arrested they had carried out six withdrawals of RD$40,000 each and this same operation had been carried out in other parts of the country such as San Francisco do Macoris and Santo Domingo.
He said that the RD$240,000 that had been withdrawn in Santiago had been recovered and will be used as evidence in the case.
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El Nacional
24 May 2018
