Spokesman of the Police, colonel Frank Durán Mejía said on Sunday, 1 July 2018, that the Police has recovered RD$2,955,000 of RD$11 million stolen from a branch of Vimenca remittances and exchange house located at Calle Independencia in Santiago. Of the money, US$203,000 was in US currency.
Arrested in the case are Carlos Alfredo García (Aspirina), Basilio Encarnación Polanco (Deivi), Emmanuel de Jesús Grullón Gutiérrez, and Andy de Jesús Gutiérrez. Bank watchman 47-year old Antonio Polonia Bueno is accused of complicity and was in possession of RD$126,000.
A news update on the case, indicates that the bank watchman was found dead from a head bullet wound, with his hands in handcuffs inside a police vehicle. Prosecutors are investigating the death. The Police had said that the man committed suicide in the parking lot. The patrol in charge of the custody is under investigation.
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2 July 2018
