The Central Electoral Board (JCE) commission in charge of investigating how now deported Colombian capo Jimenez Monsalve (Machete) obtained Dominican identification papers – ID (cédula), driver’s license, passport, arms holding permission – revealed that the trail for the issuing of documents started with the presentation of a forged Venezuelan birth certificate that established that Machete was the son of a Dominican. Offspring of Dominicans have the right to expedited Dominican citizenship.
The ID was first issued in the Santo Domingo Este civil registry office. An audit carried out by the JCE established there were several irregularities in the procedure followed. The director of the office, Sandra del Carmen Francisco Paniagua. has been suspended without pay for a month, and it is recommended that the three other officers Alba Elizabeth Vásquez Curiel, Zewxis Oxiades Ledesma Gonell and Yaniris Yohanni Pérez de Óleo be fired as the investigations continue. Vasquez Curiel is attributed with entering into the system the details of the forged Venezuelan birth certificate. Nevertheless, checks and controls were never applied to verify the veracity of the documents.
The Attorney General Office appointed a commission to follow through with the investigations. Members of the commission are: Regis Victorio Reyes, Mercedes Santana Rodríguez, Jennifer Scartlet Acevedo.
The investigations so far have revealed that the trail of documents began with a forged Venezuelan birth certificate that established that Machete was a son of a Dominican woman. The forged birth certificate gave Julian Alberto Jimenez Monsalve the name of David José Mateo, son of 36-year old Dolores Mateo, who it describes as a native of the municipality of Neyba, Dominican Republic, single and with housekeeper as occupation. The birth certificate establishes that the child was declared by the 36-year old Dolores Mateo on 7 February 1994 whereby she stated that her son had been born on 14 October 1989 at the Raul Leoni hospital in San Felix, Venezuela. The registration would have been made at the civil registry of El Callao, Estado Bolivar in Venezuela. The name of the father is not established in the birth certificate, just that of the mother and the names of supposed two witnesses.
Machete was arrested and deported to Colombia on Friday, 18 January 2019, in an operation with the participation of Colombian, Interpol and Dominican authorities. It is known he had been living in Punta Cana for about 10 years passing himself off as a wealthy Venezuelan rancher.
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28 January 2019
