Search goes on for head of fraud gang
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.- The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Santiago Prosecutor's office and the National Police have only identified as "Willi", one of the principle suspects in the criminal network that is alleged to have bilked the United States Treasury out of more than US$100 million using stolen identities and submitting fraudulent tax returns for state and federal income taxes.
The authorities that are trying to capture him, occupied a bundle from a woman that was arrested as a possible member of the gang, and it supposedly contained information relative to the fraud in question. The police have identified 11 of the 14persons implicated in the fraud, and cited Betsy Nunez de Leon, Ana Raquel Baez Almonte, Angela Estevez Diaz, Elvis Ulloa, Nelson Marte Marcelino, Maria Caridad Batista, Michael Bastien, Juana Germosen Quiroz and the sisters Jenny and Yaneris Miguelina Cruz Pena.
According to the file, the accused requested tax returns that the Department of the Treasury returned through the mails.
The addresses that appear on the fraudulent checks were, at times, grouped in a specific area.
The investigation has uncovered, for example, that as part of the strategy, the participants supposedly used a large number of addresses that belong to just one apartment building.
In the investigations agents from the FBI and members of the Department of Investigation of High Tech Crimes and Offenses (DICAT) took part.
The illegal acquisition of funds was done through requesting tax refunds, through the internet, on taxes paid by Puerto Ricans.
The file says that in the searches carried out last week in Santiago receipts and deposits in dollars were found, and so was the CPU from which they made the refund requests and transactions.
More than a dozen computers from which the tax refund requests were made are being analyzed, after being seized, once search warrants were issued by Santiago judges.
According to authorities, between 16 January and 18 February of this year, the accused submitted 8,000 refund requests for federal income tax refunds through internet sites administrated by just one business.
The amount of the tax refunds requested in these forms was said to be above US$90 million. Of theses, 3,300 , that supposed a return of US$30 million had been accepted by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
The authorities that are trying to capture him, occupied a bundle from a woman that was arrested as a possible member of the gang, and it supposedly contained information relative to the fraud in question. The police have identified 11 of the 14persons implicated in the fraud, and cited Betsy Nunez de Leon, Ana Raquel Baez Almonte, Angela Estevez Diaz, Elvis Ulloa, Nelson Marte Marcelino, Maria Caridad Batista, Michael Bastien, Juana Germosen Quiroz and the sisters Jenny and Yaneris Miguelina Cruz Pena.
According to the file, the accused requested tax returns that the Department of the Treasury returned through the mails.
The addresses that appear on the fraudulent checks were, at times, grouped in a specific area.
The investigation has uncovered, for example, that as part of the strategy, the participants supposedly used a large number of addresses that belong to just one apartment building.
In the investigations agents from the FBI and members of the Department of Investigation of High Tech Crimes and Offenses (DICAT) took part.
The illegal acquisition of funds was done through requesting tax refunds, through the internet, on taxes paid by Puerto Ricans.
The file says that in the searches carried out last week in Santiago receipts and deposits in dollars were found, and so was the CPU from which they made the refund requests and transactions.
More than a dozen computers from which the tax refund requests were made are being analyzed, after being seized, once search warrants were issued by Santiago judges.
According to authorities, between 16 January and 18 February of this year, the accused submitted 8,000 refund requests for federal income tax refunds through internet sites administrated by just one business.
The amount of the tax refunds requested in these forms was said to be above US$90 million. Of theses, 3,300 , that supposed a return of US$30 million had been accepted by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
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