The judge of the Second Investigative Court of the National District announced on 22 February next the request to initiate a trial against the defendants in the case of the network led by César Emilio Peralta (César the Abuser).
Magistrate Patricia Padilla, who had scheduled the hearing for 9:00 a.m. that day, ordered the court secretary to notify the defendant’s lawyers and the prosecution service.
The court set the hearing after the case was brought by the coordinating office of the Courts of Instruction, which in turn had filed the charges against 43 natural and legal persons.
The case against those involved in the drug trafficking network, led by César Emilio Peralta, was filed respectively by the national prosecutor and the director of the special prosecutor for combating money laundering and terrorist financing, Rosalba Ramos and Luis González.
The accusatory file, which consists of 725 pages, names new defendants, including Melchor Antonio Alcántara Damirón, builder; Genri Daniel Santana Badía, Jhonan Alexander Ureña Martínez, Biancis Evangeline Castellanos Miranda, Reynaldo Alberto Canela and Ramón Reinaldo Guerra Molina and that during the investigations conducted, it was found that the network was mobilizing about 3,500 million pesos.
In addition, prosecutors filed charges of drug trafficking and money laundering against Marisol Franco, Octavio Dotel, Rafael Reyes, José Bernabé Quiterio, aka Niño; Alan Gilberto Bueno Alcequiez aka Alan Dollar; Erick de la Cruz, Natanael Castro Cordero aka Nato, referred to as the right-hand man of César Emilio Peralta aka Cesar El Abusador.
Seized assets
According to the file, some of the occupied assets are in debit and bank accounts (Dominican pesos, US dollars and euros), consumption in credit cards (Dominican pesos and US dollars), buying and selling of foreign currency (euros, US dollars). and euros), international payments (US dollars), wire transfers (US dollars), financial certificates, loan payments and lines of credit among other transactions.
César El Abusador was jailed in August 2019 after Dominican authorities dismantled their alleged money laundering and drug trafficking network after nearly three years of investigation.
The alleged drug smuggler is detained in Colombia awaiting extradition to the United States.