A network of lawyers, notaries public and former employees of the property registry in the municipality of Higuey, La Altagracia has been dismantled, announced the Prosecutor General of the Republic and the National Property Title Registrar, as reported in El Caribe.
Santiago Brito Guzman, Eulogia Margarita Melo and Remberto Jose Duran Cabrera were named as members of the network. The case says that Guzman Brito posed as Felix Gil Morales (someone who had died in 1994) to sell property in La Altagracia.
The investigations into fraudulent property operations in La Altagracia were headed by adjunct prosecutor general Bolivar Sanchz Beloz and the title registrar of Higuey, Pablo Miguel Pena Caraballo.