Six people have been charged in connection with a ring that allegedly issued fraudulent Dominican documents to Haitian citizens. Among those implicated are employees of the Central Electoral Board (JCE) that have been sent to justice.
The investigation began after the complaints filed by Dominga Tavarez Alvarez, the director of the Nizao municipal hospital in Peravia province. Tavarez Alvarez reported the forgery of her signature on birth certificates. These certificates were used to obtain late birth registration for Haitian children.
According to the Public Ministry’s file, the ring operated through the foundation Aneadef, that was dedicated to care for children with disabilities, and with the complicity of the owner of an Internet center Los Vegetales, where the documents were falsified and printed. The investigation revealed that the foundation had forged the seal of the hospital and the signature of the director to issue the birth certificates.
The prosecutors have also accused Maria del Carmen Arias Castillo, who was in charge of the civil registry office of Nizao, and Dominga Valdez of Aneadef, both who are regarded as fugitives of justice and for whom arrest warrants have been issued.
The Central Electoral Board (JCE) issued a press release in which it welcomes the actions taken against the network dedicated to providing documents to Haitian nationals irregularly. The JCE acknowledged that among those arrested are employees at the JCE.
The judge of the jurisdiction of Permanent Attention of the province of Peravia, magistrate Loida Amador, ordered pretrial detention for Amauri Rosario Aybar and economic guarantee and periodic appearance before the Public Prosecutor’s Office to Stalen Falcón, Juan Javier Mariñez Guillén, Elizabeth Mercedes García, Quilcy Paulino and Sujeyri Mercedes Sánchez.
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19 February 2025