What should not be news is news. A Haitian was ordered one-year preventive custody for attempting to forge his identity. The justice may impose a three to 10 years for the attempting identify fraud. Over the years, hundreds of thousands of Haitians are estimated to have used fraudulent documents to obtain their identity in the country.
The Central Electoral Board (JCE) saluted that Cirilo Salomón Sánchez, judge of the Judicial Office of Permanent Attention of Santiago imposed 12 months of preventive imprisonment on a Haitian citizen arrested when he tried to obtain an identity card in the name of a Dominican citizen. Linto Tragelhomme Sanon, was found to be using a false document.
According to the request for coercive measures presented by the prosecutor assigned to the JCE for crimes against the Civil Registry, Esther González, Tragelhomme Sanon presented himself at the Civil Registry Office of the municipality of Villa González in Santiago province and, once there, tried to obtain an identity card in the name of Kelvys de Jesús Ynoa Martínez, using a false document.
The JCE explains that as soon as the accused presented the documentation at the Northern Regional Central Electoral Board, the biometric verification of the citizen’s fingerprints was carried out, and when the plastic was passed through the bar reader, it tied the identity to the Dominican citizen Kelvys de Jesús Ynoa Martínez.
The authorities of the Civil Status Office informed the Civil Security Department of the JCE, which collaborated with the National Police and the corresponding Public Prosecutor’s Office, to arrest the accused in the same place where the impersonation was attempted to be committed.
The Central Electoral Board press release indicates that Tragelhomme’s arrest is in addition to others that have been made in the last year for similar crimes.
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El Dia
24 February 2022