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2017 News

Customs seizes nine million cigarette contraband

The Customs Agency (DGA) announced it seized 9,250,000 cigarettes of different brands that were being smuggled in on the weekend through the Caucedo Multimodal Port. The shipment was in two freight containers that had arrived from Panama camouflaged with plastic shares and beauty salon and spa items. Enrique Ramírez, general director of the DGA, made …

2017 News

Three men arrested for fraud

The National Police have announced the arrest of three men accused of defrauding a bank of the sum of RD$5,179,000. Those arrested are identified as Cosme Damián Mejía Almonte, Yonathan Ariel Miqui and Jonathan Cristóbal Bautista. According to the police, the modus operandi of the band was to forge the identity of the clients of …

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Canadian extradited

On Saturday 27, May 27, Matthew Bruce Medina, a Canadian citizen, was extradited back to Canada from the Dominican Republic on drug related charges. 51-year old Matthew Bruce Medina (also known as Matthew Bruce Maynard), was the subject of multiple police investigations across Canada. In the fall of 2013, he was the suspect of a …

2017 News

Santiago senator pleads his case

PLD Senator for Santiago, Julio César Valentín has issued a press release having learned that there is an arrest order issued against him in connection with the Odebrecht bribe case. He said that it was his duty to speak to the country following the accusation and especially to the residents of the city that elected …

2017 News

Temistocles Montás puts his job as minister at the disposition of the President

Industry and Commerce Minister Temístocles Montás has written to the President Danilo Medina putting his job at the disposition of the President following his arrest as part of the group suspect of receiving bribes from Odebrecht. Montás highlighted his long public service and loyalty and maintained his innocence of the charges. Recently, there were reports …

2017 News

Webpage of Attorney General’s Office crashes

The webpage of the Attorney General’s Office has crashed, and the institution have informed via Twitter that the site is now off line due to the high volume of traffic. The Attorney General Office said they are working to restore it. The site crashed following a press conference held by the Attorney General Jean Alain …

2017 News

Arrests made in Odebrecht case

The Dominican Republic’s Attorney General’s Office announced arrest warrants have been issued related to the Odebrecht bribery scandal that embroiled officials in the Dominican Republic after Odebrecht admitted in a New York City court in December 2016 to having paid US$92 million in bribes to obtain contract work in the country from 2001 to 2014. …

2017 News

Dahianna Blanco wins Diario Libre’s Contemporary Art contest

The winning works of the Diario Libre Contemporary Art Contest can be seen at the Galeria Arte Berri at Calle Hostos 57C, in the Colonial City. The art gallery is open 10am to 5:30pm and on Saturdays from 10am to 1pm. On exhibit are 50 works by 43 artists that were chosen for the exhibit …

2017 News

San Juan ferry will restart 1 June 2017

The president of Ferries del Caribe, Néstor González announced the restart of operations of the Caribbean Fantasy ferry on 1 June 2017. The ferry connects San Juan, Puerto Rico with Santo Domingo. On 18 May, the ferry had crashed into the port when the ship continued to move after it had docked prior to arriving …

2017 News

Mom of bank robber killed in an aborted bank robbery

The National Police reported that 44-year old María Reyna Paulino Rivas (Susi) later identified as the mother of an arrested bank robber, was killed on Saturday, 27 May 2017, shortly before noon, in a shootout between police officers and three men and the woman. The group was persecuted by the Police after presenting forged checks …

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2017 – Page 178

Customs seizes nine million cigarette contraband

Three men arrested for fraud

Canadian extradited

Santiago senator pleads his case

Temistocles Montás puts his job as minister at the disposition of the President

Webpage of Attorney General’s Office crashes

Arrests made in Odebrecht case

Dahianna Blanco wins Diario Libre’s Contemporary Art contest

San Juan ferry will restart 1 June 2017

Mom of bank robber killed in an aborted bank robbery