SANTO DOMINGO.- The Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of La Romana will hear this Tuesday the request for coercive measures against those involved in what the Public Ministry (MP) has called the "Cheetah" case, through whose investigation the prosecuting body claims to have found sufficient evidence to bring four people to justice, who are accused of being part of a network that allegedly defrauded more than 120 people.
Novasco Real Estate SRL is the main company cited in the 287-page file, where the MP included Marisol Nova Nolasco, Rocío del Alba Rodríguez de Moya, Yves Alexandre Giroux and Loany Lismeiry Ortiz Nova as defendants.
According to preliminary figures presented in the file for the request for coercive measures, and whose investigation was led by prosecutors Bienvenido Florentino and Claudio Cordero, the amount defrauded would have reached US$18 million.
According to the Public Prosecutor's Office, the method involved offering residential projects in Bávaro and La Romana at below-market prices, attracting hundreds of buyers who allegedly deposited money for the purchase of fictitious properties.
The file also details that the aforementioned company "made investors believe" that they had the permits for the construction of the luxury housing complex, without having the authorization of either the Ministry of Housing, Habitat and Buildings (Mivhed) or the Ministry of Environment.
18 months of pretrial detention
The Specialized Prosecutor's Office for Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing and the Prosecutor's Office of La Romana filed a request for 18 months of preventive detention with the Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of La Romana.
In the coercive measure instance, the Public Prosecutor requests the imposition of preventive detention and that the process be declared complex, because there is sufficient evidence of the commission of the aforementioned crimes, which constitute a violation of articles 405, 265 and 266 of the Dominican Penal Code, 15 of Law 53-07 on High Technology Crimes and Offenses and Law 155-17, on Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism.
