18 military and migration inspectors were handcuffed and arrested at the Migration Agency (DGM) on Friday, 18 December 2015. They include the migration liaison officer with the United States Embassy. The inspectors are under investigation for people smuggling and trafficking in drugs at air and maritime ports after the director of Migration, General Ruben Paulino Sem received leads from United States Embassy officials, as reported in El Nacional. The migration inspectors worked at several of the country’s air and maritime ports.
According to the El Nacional source, this is about establishing which inspectors had contacts with the cartels and allowed the departure of drug trafficking “mules” carrying cocaine and heroin and entry or departure of drug shipments to US and Europe.
As reported in El Nuevo Diario, the detainees are being held at the Palacio de Justicia in Ciudad Nueva in Santo Domingo and the prosecutor Alba Corona of the Department of People Trafficking is handling the case. El Nuevo Diario says that 10 migration inspectors, five military and four civilians are under arrest, including a woman of about 70.
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