The Russian Federation approved the request of the Dominican Republic’s Public Prosecutor’s Office for the surrender of Dominican fugitive Alain José Gómez Luna. accused of defrauding several people in the Dominican Republic of RD$283.8 million through three commercial companies. Gómez Luna had been on the run for more than a year when he was arrested in Russia last year.
Gómez Luna is accused, together with other persons, of fraud, forgery and use of falsified commercial documents, association of criminals to falsify, money laundering and association to commit money laundering. The swindle amounts to RD$283.8 million, some US$4.9 million related to crimes committed from 23 August 2010 to 31 January 2020.
The accused left the Dominican Republic on 17 March 2020 through La Isabela International Airport on a flight to Cuba. From the neighboring island, he traveled to Russia on 5 June 2020. He was arrested in Russia in August 2021, after remaining a fugitive there for more than a year.
After his arrest, Gomez Luna was presented before the Soviet District Court of the city of Krasnodar, which sent him to preventive detention on 1 September 2021, in response to a request made by the Dominican Public Prosecutor’s Office.
The accused Gómez Luna, in association with other shareholders, used the commercial companies Mercabanc, C. por A., Metrocrédito, S.R.L., and Metrocar, S.A.S., to make the victims believe that these companies were authorized by the Monetary Board of the Dominican Republic to carry out financial intermediation. However, the evidence indicates that neither the investigated, nor the referred companies had the authorization of the Dominican state to act as a financial intermediary.
After his arrest in Russia, the Public Prosecutor’s Office initiated actions against the accused before the Attorney General’s Office of the Russian Federation, through the Dominican Embassy in that country. The Dominican ambassador in Russia is Hans Dannenberg Castellanos.
Through a press release, the Public Prosecutor’s Office mentions that Aida Ramos, representative of the commercial companies, is also being prosecuted for her connection to the case.
The Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of the National District last year ordered that Ramos serve a year of preventive imprisonment and later the Court of Appeals of this jurisdiction changed the measure for an economic guarantee of RD$5 million, periodic presentation and impediment to leave the country.
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Attorney General Office
17 January 2022