"In addition to the property in Balcones del Atlántico, the file indicates that the Air Force general acquired two villas near Rancho Arroyo Naranjo, located in Jarabacoa; one of them was purchased in April of this year.".
Taken from the Listín Diario
SANTO DOMINGO - The former director of the Specialized Tourist Security Corps (Cestur), Juan Carlos Torres Robiou, bought a luxury apartment in Samaná valued at half a million dollars, but supposedly did so through a company owned by Pastor Rossy Guzmán to avoid raising suspicions.
At least that's what Raúl Alejandro Girón claimed during an interrogation conducted by the Specialized Prosecutor's Office for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca).
“All of that was done to conceal the property and erase the trail of the real owner, who is the accused General Juan Carlos Torre Robiou, since he would have no way of justifying the purchase in cash, and without financing,” explained Raúl Alejandro Girón, the accused who last May admitted to the court his participation in the religious-military network denounced by the prosecutors.
With the expression “all that”, Girón referred to an alleged loan of RD $7,500,000 to the pastor's company, which he denied, as well as the payment of an alleged debt of RD $13,260,000 contracted with his father, Vicente Girón De la Cruz, which he also denied.
But Girón was not the only one to claim that Torres Robiou is the true owner of the tourist apartment; several Cestur employees as well as the selling company corroborated the information.
“Witnesses David Abreu Padilla, Miguel Cancu, Jacobo Horacio and Israel Blanc Hernández recognize the Balcones del Atlántico property as belonging to the defendant Juan Carlos Torre Robiou , even making maintenance payments for it,” states the accusation presented by the Pepca against the main defendant in the “Coral 5G” investigation.
The document adds that the payment for the maintenance of the property came from Cestur, from where other fixed payments of a personal nature were also diverted, with Abreu Padilla, the person in charge of accounts payable at Cestur, being responsible.
Likewise, the seller of the apartment voluntarily handed over his cell phone, on which prosecutors found 75 conversations with General Torres Robiou, Colonel Rafael Núñez de Aza, and Pastor Rossy Guzmán via WhatsApp, which "prove that the apartment really belongs to General Juan Carlos Torres Robiou.".
How did you acquire the property?
Prosecutors say Torres Robiou used the company Único Real State e Inversiones SRL, owned by Rossy Maybelline Guzmán Sánchez (la Pastora), to acquire a “luxurious” apartment in the Balcones del Atlántico condominium, located in Las Terrenas, Samaná province.
The property, currently valued at approximately half a million dollars, was acquired for about RD$13,327,000 on August 30, 2019 from the company Kratos Ventures Inc., represented by Samuel Pou Coen, who acknowledged to the authorities that Torres Robiou was the buyer and "that he put him in contact with his 'assistant', the co-defendant Colonel Rafael Núñez de Aza, who was in charge of making the agreed payment.".
The pastor reportedly explained to the Public Ministry that the purchase of the apartment in Samaná was made with the funds from the profits of her company Único Real State, together with the loan of more than seven million pesos that Girón supposedly made to her, although he later denied it.
One year after it was purchased, the property was sold for RD$14,260,000, less than half of the current value of the apartment, which was categorized by the authorities as "strange".
“The accused Rossy Maybelline Guzmán Sánchez herself states that, since the acquisition of this property, it has been under the possession of General Juan Carlos Torre Robiou, former director of Cestur, supposedly as a rental, paying a monthly amount of US$3,000, a situation that corroborates the illegality,” the prosecutors mention in the accusation.
The representative of Kratos Ventures Inc. also stated, according to Pepca, that Colonel Núñez de Aza is the one who sends him the data of the company Único Real State e Inversiones SRL, to carry out the sales contract and at the same time puts him in contact with the accused Rossy Maybelline Guzmán Sánchez.
Other properties
In addition to the property in Balcones del Atlántico, the file indicates that the Air Force general acquired two villas near Rancho Arroyo Naranjo, located in Jarabacoa; one of them was purchased in April of this year.
Together with his spouse, Greybby Maria Cuello Coste, he owns an apartment in the Torre Regatta Residences residential complex, located in the National District, which was acquired in August 2018 and, almost a year later, he acquired a rural plot of land located in Monte Plata.
Operation Coral
The Operation Coral case file was the first time that the connection of the Dominican Republic Air Force (FARD) general and former director, Juan Carlos Torres Robiou, to the alleged religious-military network uncovered by the Attorney General's Office was heard.
The request for coercive measures against six people, including the former head of security for former President Danilo Medina, Adan Cáceres Silvestre, mentioned that Torres Robiou had rented the property located in Samaná for US$3,000 per month, although its use was “sporadic”.
In early May, when he had not yet been charged, although he had been mentioned, the general declared himself ready to
“The aforementioned property is under the possession of Brigadier General, Pilot FARD Juan Carlos Torre Robiou, who is the director of the Specialized Tourist Security Corps (CESTUR) and superior officer of the accused Raúl Alejandro Girón, as a rental, paying a monthly amount of three thousand US dollars (US$3,000.00), an extremely suspicious situation, since it does not make logical sense to rent a property for a large amount and use it sporadically,” the Public Ministry has established in its investigation on Major General Adán Cáceres, head of security detail of former President Danilo Medina.
This time, the Public Prosecutor's Office accuses him of conspiracy to commit fraud
