The Public Prosecutor’s Office has imposed three months of preventive imprisonment against Alain José Gómez Luna, accused of operating two illegal financial entities with which he is accused of financial fraud.
Judge Jose Consoró, of the Permanent Attention Court of the National District, ordered Alain José Gómez Luna to serve three months preventive custody in the Najayo Men’s Jail in San Cristóbal. The Public Prosecutor’s Office accuses Gómez Luna of operating a finance corporation that swindled people of more than RD$283 million.
Charges were pressed after Gómez Luna was deported from Russia back to the Dominican Republic. He was in Russia from 5 June 2020 after leaving the country via Cuba on 17 March 2020.
Gomez Luna was arrested in Russia in August 2021. The National Department for Investigation of Financial Crimes of the Public Prosecutor’s Office then initiated actions against him before Russia’s Attorney General’s Office with the assistance of the Embassy of the Dominican Republic in Russia and Dominican ambassador to Russia, Hans Dannenberg Castellanos.
Gómez Luna is accused of committing fraud through the companies Mercabanc, C. por A., Metrocrédito, S.R.L., and Metrocar, S.A.S. The state did not authorize the companies to carry out financial operations.
In addition to Góme Luna, Aida Ramos and Ricardo Munné are accused in the case.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office points to the violation of articles 147, 148, 265, 266 and 405 of the Dominican Criminal Code, as well as articles 473 and 478 of Law 479-08, on Commercial Companies.
Gomez Luna is also charged with violation of articles 351.3.i and 351.4 of Law 249-17, on the Securities Market; 3.1 and 3.2 of Law 155-17, on Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism, and article 3, letters a and b.1, of the former Law 72-02, on Laundering of Assets from Drug Trafficking and other Serious Offenses.
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N Digital
5 July 2022