{"id":240412,"date":"2025-08-19T07:51:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T11:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=240412"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:29:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:29:45","slug":"shell-company-linked-to-alexis-medina-acquitted-despite-conviction-of-alleged-frontwoman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/08\/19\/shell-company-linked-to-alexis-medina-acquitted-despite-conviction-of-alleged-frontwoman\/","title":{"rendered":"Shell company linked to Alexis Medina acquitted, despite conviction of alleged frontwoman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mar\u00eda Isabel Torres Castellanos \/ Al Momento<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In a surprising legal twist, the company Editorama, allegedly used as a front in a multimillion-dollar corruption scheme involving Alexis Medina S\u00e1nchez, was acquitted last Thursday, 14 August 2025 by the Second Collegiate Court of the National District, despite earlier court rulings implicating it in money laundering, Diario Libre reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diario Libre explains that Mar\u00eda Isabel de los Milagros Torres Castellanos, accused of acting as a frontwoman for Medina through Editorama, had previously been convicted in a separate, expedited trial. However, while Torres Castellanos was found guilty of laundering funds linked to companies owned by Medina \u2014 including Full American Inc Dominicana, Domedical Supply, and General Medical Solutions AM \u2014 the company itself has now been cleared of any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This acquittal starkly contrasts with earlier judgments, including those from the Fourth Collegiate Court of the National District, the Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of Justice, which had tied Torres Castellanos\u2019 money laundering activities directly to Editorama. In 2023, those rulings led to Torres Castellanos being ordered to surrender a property located in Brisas de Guavaberry, San Pedro de Macor\u00eds, as part of her sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, the newspaper highlights that still, in the latest ruling \u2014 which concluded the main corruption trial last Thursday \u2014 Editorama was acquitted alongside 13 individual defendants, despite its alleged role in facilitating suspicious financial transfers for Medina\u2019s business network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In contrast, Alexis Medina S\u00e1nchez, the brother of former President Danilo Medina, was convicted and sentenced to seven years in prison for bribery, money laundering, and criminal association. The court also handed down five- and six-year sentences to seven other co-defendants. Medina\u2019s sentence will be served at Najayo Men\u2019s Prison, pending appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The panel of judges \u2014 Claribel Nivar Arias (presiding), Yissel Soto, and Clara Sobeida Castillo \u2014 emphasized the distinction between individual criminal responsibility and corporate liability in their decision to acquit Editorama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In a surprising legal twist, the company Editorama, allegedly used as a front in a multimillion-dollar corruption scheme involving Alexis Medina S\u00e1nchez, was acquitted last Thursday, 14 August 2025 by the Second Collegiate Court of the National District, despite earlier court rulings implicating it in money laundering, Diario Libre reports. Diario Libre explains that Mar\u00eda … <\/p>\n

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