"This is a fraud against the State in public institutions of such magnitude that it harms the free competition of other companies " the prosecuting body stated.
SANTO DOMINGO – “With Operation Lobo, the Public Prosecutor’s Office has dismantled a criminal organization that operated within the public procurement system of state-owned companies in the private security sector. We have identified, to date, bribes exceeding 100 million pesos and have more than 500 pieces of evidence to demonstrate, in this first phase of the process, the involvement and connection of all the defendants arrested as a result of this operation,” revealed Mirna Ortiz, head of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption ( Pepca), last night.
On the night of Wednesday, June 9, 2025 , the Public Prosecutor's Office filed a request for pretrial detention against 10 of those implicated in the network . As part of Operation Lobo, the prosecuting body previously reported the arrest of military personnel and civilians belonging to a criminal organization that relied on bribery to secure and maintain private security contracts with public institutions.
Magistrate Ortiz arrived six minutes before the deadline set by law to file the request for coercive measures with the Permanent Attention Office of the National District so that the hearing on the matter could be scheduled in the coming hours.
He emphasized that this operation is just beginning and there may be more people investigated, more arrests, and more prosecutions in this process, according to the newspaper El Día today.
He explained that they are requesting preventive detention as a coercive measure since it is a fraud against the State in public institutions of such magnitude that it harms the free competition of other companies, which violate the Law of Purchase and Contracting in institutions as vulnerable as INAIPI and the electricity distribution companies.
He warned that anyone involved in this operation will be brought to justice.
The case
The operation, carried out by the Specialized Prosecutor's Office for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca) with the support of the General Directorate of Prosecution of the Public Ministry, included 15 raids in the National District and Santiago.
The investigations led to the arrest in the National District of retired Army Major General Carlos Ambrosio Robles Díaz, as well as Army Colonels Andrés Pacheco Varela, Luis Ernesto Vicioso Bocio, Francisco Guarín Fernández Vásquez and Elías Camaño Pérez.
Also arrested were Air Force Colonel Yorbyn Eduardo Eufracio Aybar, Army First Lieutenant Wellington Peralta Santos, businessman Quilvio Bienvenido Rodríguez González, and Police Colonel Ramón Quezada Ortiz. Bolívar Nicolás Fernández Espinal was arrested in Santiago.
A total of 26 prosecutors from the Public Ministry's investigative bodies worked with the support of 189 agents of the National Police to confront the network that affected the National Institute of Comprehensive Care for Early Childhood (Inaipi), the National Health Insurance (Senasa), the Northern Electricity Distribution Company (EdeNorte), the Eastern Electricity Distribution Company (EdeEste) and the Southern Electricity Distribution Company (EdeSur).
The Pepca and the General Directorate of Prosecution announced that the investigation began with a complaint sent to the Public Ministry regarding the management of the General Directorate of Ethics and Governmental Integrity, headed by Dr. Milagros Ortiz Bosch.
