An Independencia province judge ordered six accused in the Operation Iguana to serve six months of preventive measures. An inspector of the Migration Agency and a local migration officer are included in the group accused of people smuggling at the border with Haiti.
The accused are Roberto Méndez Pérez, coordinator of controls at the Customs border post in Jimaní, and the inspector of this agency Johan Rosario Castillo. Also Quelinton Eduardo Vólquez Guzmán, Delson Manuel Medina Díaz and Juan Mateo Feliciano (Yefo) who must serve one year in prison in the Neiba jail. Also, Deivi Nova Reyes, who was an employee of the Instituto Nacional de Aguas Potables y Alcantarillados (Inapa). Dominga Guzmán, mother of one of the accused, was ordered to appear periodically before the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
The instruction judge of Jimaní, Paco Terrero Pérez ordered the preventive measures after accepting the requests made by the Public Prosecutor’s Office through the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office Against the Smuggling of Migrants and Trafficking of Persons (PETT). He declared the case to be a complex one.
Nine simultaneous raids in municipalities of the southwestern provinces of Independencia, Bahoruco and Pedernales were carried out as part of the investigations into the Operation Iguana.
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31 March 2022