The Office of Permanent Attention in the National District has scheduled a hearing for November 25th to determine the coercive measures against those implicated in the Pandora Operation. The Attorney General Office prosecution division chose the name of Pandora for the case filed regarding a network allegedly responsible for stealing nearly 900,000 rounds of ammunition from the National Police for clandestine distribution. The theft came to the open with the change of Minister of Interior and Police. For years, the Dominican government had denied charges that weapons were being trafficked to Haiti from the Dominican Republic.
The defense requested the postponement due to the voluminous amount of evidence presented by state prosecutors, mostly against members of the National Police.
Prosecutors expect the court to declare the case complex and impose preventive custody on the 10 defendants.
The prosecution has filed a 200-page indictment, supported by 135 pieces of evidence.
The Special Prosecutor’s Office (PEPCA) has identified Colonel Narciso Antonio Féliz Romero, in charge of weapons and ammunition custody; Lieutenant Colonel Juan Miguel Pérez Soler; Captain Nelson Valdez, head of the Weapons Depot; Captain and Auditor Víctor Manuel Santos, accused of altering the results of a February audit; and Second Lieutenant Marino Antonio Rodríguez Toribio and the company Tactical Accesories RH, S.R.L., linked to the latter, among others, as the alleged ringleaders of the operation.
Operation Pandora, which led to the arrest of the suspects, was carried out in October 2024 following a joint request from the Ministry of Interior and Police and the director general of the National Police.
Over 200 officers from specialized units of the National Police, Preventive Police, and the Central Directorate of Criminal Investigations (Dicrim), along with more than 40 prosecutors, participated in raids in the National District and the provinces of Santo Domingo, Santiago, Sánchez Ramírez, and Pedernales.
As has been the practice with this Attorney General Office, the extensive preliminary investigations in the case have been released to the press.
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20 November 2024