In the urban development of the municipality of Santo Domingo Oeste, the ruling in the case that the Public Prosecutor's Office called Coral reveals an unusual accumulation of contiguous properties. Lots, residences, commercial spaces, and vacant land in the same geographic strip point to a systematic pattern, not to scattered purchases.
SANTO DOMINGO. – Colinas del Oeste is an upper-middle-class residential development in the municipality of Santo Domingo Oeste, located on the banks of the Arroyo Hondo stream, a few kilometers west of the city center. Its streets are named after geographical features: Cordillera Septentrional, Cordillera Central, Diego de Ocampo, and La Pelona. The residences are mostly two-story family homes with gardens, built between the 1990s and the first decade of the 2000s.
It's not an extremely luxurious area, nor is it on the outskirts. It's exactly the kind of development where newly wealthy people can settle without attracting too much attention: reasonable market values, proper land registration, and stable neighbors.
The ruling, which is not yet final and is subject to appeal, reveals that, in that urbanization, and specifically around Cordillera Septentrional street, the highest density of properties subject to confiscation in all of Santo Domingo Oeste is concentrated.
Cordillera Septentrional Street: the axis of the pattern
The device identifies the following properties ordered to be seized, all located on or adjacent to Cordillera Septentrional street in Cadastral District 04 of Santo Domingo Oeste:
- Number 151. The most detailed property description in the entire ruling. Plot SUB-150, registration number 0100059133, with an area of 538.10 m². The court describes it as a multi-level residence with a swimming pool and gazebo with a grill, a gym equipped with 22 weights and multiple machines, a nightclub with a professional sound system, a bar stocked with dozens of bottles of high-end liquor, a DJ area with a console and amplifiers, and a bunker area with a collection of wines and spirits. It also has solar panels, an electric vehicle charger, and four staff rooms. The text of the ruling explicitly states that this property was acquired and furnished with money obtained from illicit corruption activities and links it to Rafael Núñez de Aza.
- In the same vein, number 151 encompasses consecutive registered parcels. Three additional parcels are identified with numbers SUB-153, SUB-154, and SUB-155, registration numbers 0100059135, 0100059136, and 0100059137, with a combined area of 1,154.20 m², which house a second property with an office, event hall, two main bedrooms, and various equipment. The inventory of this property also occupies several pages of the ruling.
On that same street, without a specific number, the device identifies:
- Plot SUB-119: 538.70 m², vacant land planted with bananas, registered in the name of Aldom Glass Aluminium, SRL (registration 0100059117)
- Plot SUB-93-007: 302.25 m² (registration 0100071395)
- Empty land: 310.91 m², identified as 309461245906 (registration 0100190731)
- House under construction: 311.21 m², two levels, identified as 309461253098 (registration 0100190730)
- Plot SUB-162: 420.60 m² (registration 0100059144)
- Plot S-179: 830.90 m², identified as property of Rafael Núñez de Aza (registration number 0100059154)
- Plot SUB-180: 607.70 m² (registration 0100059155)
There are eight properties on a single street, in the same cadastral district, with consecutive registration numbers that suggest systematic acquisition within the same subdivision plan.
La Pelona Street: the complement
Less than 400 meters away in a straight line, on La Pelona street in the same urbanization, the device identifies two additional properties:
- Calle La Pelona nú. 02: two-level residence, 400.81 m², registration 0100190933, coordinates 18.462800, -69.984186
- Calle La Pelona s/n: land of 429.30 m², plot SUB-45, registration 0100059087, coordinates 18.463052, -69.984647
The properties in the common area and perimeter
The device also includes two features that by their nature suggest control of the immediate environment:
- Common recreation area: 788.67 m², identified as 309451863936, registration 2400045114, located on Diego de Ocampo street corner Cordillera Central, within the same residential complex
- Land of 825.67 m², identified as 309451872175, registration 24000451102, registered in the name of Único Real State e Inversiones, SRL, RNC 1-31-31919-1, on Diego de Ocampo street s/n
Outside the immediate core, but within the same municipality:
- Property 309451864767: 1,053.26 m² in Colinas del Oeste, registration 2400045117
- Property 309451862507: 1,259.95 m², two-level family home with basement, registration number 2400045115
- Plot 97, DC 04: 76,908 m², the largest property in the municipality in the confiscation, registration number 0900017256
The pattern: what the numbers say
Adding together only the properties in Colinas del Oeste and its immediate surroundings in Santo Domingo Oeste, the device identifies at least 17 registered units with a combined area of approximately 86,000 m², about 8.6 hectares, within a radius of no more than 800 meters.
The breakdown by type:
- 2 fully furnished and equipped residences (538 m² and 401 m²)
- 1 additional residence with basement (1,260 m²)
- 1 house under construction (311 m²)
- 1 common recreation area (789 m²)
- 9 plots and land parcels with different stages of development
- 1 plot of 76,908 m² with no description of improvements
The concentration of properties within a single cadastral subdivision block—registration numbers beginning with 0100059 being consecutive within plan DC 04—is not characteristic of scattered real estate purchases. It is the pattern of someone systematically acquiring plots within a planned development, possibly at different times, but with a clear objective of territorial accumulation.
Unique Real Estate: the company in the area
Two of the properties appear registered in the name of Único Real Estate e Inversiones, SRL, with RNC 1-31-31919-1. This company name also appears in the device linked to an apartment in the Torre Lice Carolina 3, in Bella Vista, and mentioned in relation to Epifanio Peña Lebrón.
The device includes among the seized rubber stamps, several in the name of this company: one round blue one and one rectangular one that says "Paid".
Único Real State is not among the legal entities condemned to dissolution; that group is CSNA Universo Empresarial, Randa Internacional, Aldom Glass, Hacienda Kelman, R&F Agroindustrial and Rawel Importadores, but their properties are included in the confiscation.
Santo Domingo Oeste in the general context of the confiscation
Beyond Colinas del Oeste, the municipality of Santo Domingo Oeste holds other significant assets from the seizure. The most relevant from a real estate perspective are:
- Kilometer 18, Duarte Highway. Three adjacent buildings on Anacaona Street, Doña Rosa I, II, and III residential complexes. The first has three levels with five apartments and two commercial spaces. The second has four levels. The third has four levels with a gym on the first two floors and apartments on the upper floors. These three structures are located on the same road, on the same street, and were likely built in stages.
- Kilometer 14, Duarte Highway, Los Alcarrizos. Plaza Randa Internacional: a four-story building, 1,960.83 m², with 44 commercial spaces distributed across the entire floor of each level, plus three adjacent properties totaling an additional 3,807 m². It is the most structured commercial asset seized.
What the ruling does not say
The document does not specify when these properties were acquired, at what price, or through what financing mechanism. It does not describe whether the plots were intended for future development or simply as a store of value. There is no appraisal of any of them.
What it does establish, and is the legal basis for the confiscation, is that the court considered it proven that these assets are the product or instrument of the crimes judged: money laundering, illicit enrichment and increase in assets.
The sentence is not final. The convicted parties have the right to appeal to the National District Court of Appeals, and the confiscation will not be carried out until the decision is final at all levels. The full reading of the ruling, which will include the complete legal reasoning, is scheduled for August 14, 2026.
Source: Ruling No. 249-02-2026-SSEN-00040, First Collegiate Court of the Criminal Chamber of the Court of First Instance of the National District, dated June 15, 2026.
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