National Investigations Department (DNI) agents have arrested several members of an international network for trade and trafficking in people with possible links to terrorist cells using the Dominican Republic as a bridge to Cuba, France, Spain, Sri Lanka and Haiti.
At a press conference held yesterday, Wednesday 22 May, Colonel Fidel Calcagno Paulino, head of operations at the DNI, told journalists that the group leader was Karunanithy Nallathamby, a Canadian of Sri Lankan origin.
Nallathamby was arrested together with Kanthaany Siresh or Sriram Kannan, Mahenderan Ganesh or David Kristen and Kohulan Selvarasa, in Sosua, in the province of Puerto Plata.
The DNI said that Nallathamby was talking original passports from the Canadian Passport office, changing them and selling them to Indian nationals who were entering the Dominican Republic via Haiti
Calcagno Paulino said that preliminary investigations showed that more than 60 people had come into the country, most from the Middle East, and they were trying to find out where they were now.
He added that the group ringleader had outstanding arrest warrants in his home country as well as in the USA and Europe.
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