Attorney General Office prosecutors indicted 12 persons on serious charges for tampering with official documents. They are accused of providing “clean sheets” for persons with a criminal past so these could obtain such things as passports, visas and jobs.
Of the 12, five were sent to preventive custody, or jail, until trial, and seven, including the prosecutor from the province of Independencia, on the border with Haiti, were allowed to go on house arrest, post bail money, with travel restrictions in return for their testimony.
The terms were agreed to by the presiding judge at the Office for Permanent Attention in the National District, Rigoberto Sena.
The persons favored with house arrest and bail are not what are called “whistleblowers,” but rather informers on their fellow accomplices in this case.
According to the authorities, over 15,000 files were tampered with, allowing persons with criminal records to go about their business under a cloak of normality.
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El Caribe
14 August 2023