The Central Bank and the Superintendence of Banks have asked state prosecutors to accuse 17 people of alleged fraud worth more than RD$1.4 billion at the collapsed Banco Peravia, a majority Venezuelan bank. The government is requesting actions to sentence the accused to the maximum 20 years in prison, a fine of RD$2.5 million each and compensation worth RD$2.5 billion in damages. The lawyers called for state prosecutors to seek preventive custody for the 17 accused, who are Nelson Serret Sugranez, Jose Luis Santoro Castellano, Gabriel Jimenez Aray, Carlos Serret Sugranez, Jorge Serret Sugranez, Daniel Morales Santoro, Luis Manuel Pena Melo, Melvio Alexis Coiscou Castro, Milcio Pedro Santana, Mirian Serret, Altagracia Munoz Martinez, Yesenia Serret Aponte, Yocelyn Leal Morato, Evelyn Serret, Luis Herrera Valerio, Nelson Cabral Veras and Rolando Cabral Veras.
The Central Bank lawyers are Luis Miguel Pereyra, Carlos Salcedo Camacho, Francisco Alvarez Valdez, Jose Lorenzo Fermin, Manuel Ramon Pena Conce, Gregorio Garcia Villavizar, Michel Camacho and Tomas Hernandez Metz.
The reported request for prosecution made by the Central Bank and Superintendence of Banks does not mention Jose Luis Santoro, Gabriel Jimenez Aray and Daniel Morales Santoro, the bank’s top executives. Despite depositors making complaints of fraud, the Venezuelan bankers were not prevented from leaving the Dominican Republic. As reported, there has been no mention of issuing an arrest warrant for the three men, who are suspected to be in Venezuela, a country with which the Dominican Republic has an extradition agreement.
It is now known that the Dominican monetary authorities had been alerted to irregularities involving the bank’s shareholders since 2013, but no action was taken, as acento.com.do has reported.
The Banco Peravia de Ahorro y Credito (Banco Peravia) was intervened by the Superintendence of Banks on 21 November 2014 but the leading executives left the country after a Venezuelan group Kaya Armoring Blindado SRL submitted a complaint demanding savings deposited there.
Vinculan al Banco Peravia en lavado de recursos ilícitos de Venezuela
http://www.elcorreo.do/index.php/nacionales/item/1210-autoridad-monetaria-somete-por-lavado-de-dinero-ejecutivos-del-banco-peravia
http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias/2015/06/01/i1173721_fnp-rompe-alianza-con-pld.html