Money laundering operation busted

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The Police, the Attorney General's Department and the US Immigration and Customs Execution Agency have dismantled an organization that allegedly laundered approximately US$7.3 million. Three people were arrested in the US and the DR, according to a report by Diario Libre. Transactions by the company Puly Envio de Valores and/or Boston Envio de Valores were tracked as part of the investigation. The company is owned by Dominicans Santo Melo and Claudio Tejeda Andujar. According to the investigation, Melo and Tejeda acted in complicity with another company, Remesadora Peravinter, which is presumed to have operated illegally on Inchaustegui Street in Bani. The members of Remesadora Puly and/or Envio de Valores Boston would receive money in cash in Boston and transfer it electronically to the Dominican Republic. The money was then distributed to drug trafficking cells in both companies through intermediaries who charged 5% to 7%. The authorities in both countries decided to freeze the suspects' bank accounts, seize their property and examine technological equipment at the companies involved. In addition to Santos Melo and Tejeda Andujar, an employee of Puly, Jose Garcia, was arrested in the US. He was found in possession of US$160,000. In the DR, the following have been detained: Marcos Tejeda Andujar, Carlos Manuel Objio Diaz, David Trinidad Tejeda, Silvio Trinidad Tejeda, William Ramirez Asuncion, Francis Amauris Garcia Diaz, David Emilio Castillo Tejeda, Edison Faustino Villalona Ramirez and Luis Bernardo Pimentel. Marcos Tejeda Santana is still at large. During their investigations, Dominican and US authorities used US federal funds to make 25 transfers totaling US$400,000.00 to the DR through Puly Envio de Valores and/or Boston Envio de Valores, which were presented to the organization as the product of drug trafficking activities in the US.

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