Dominican Republic
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Major Odebrecht Corruption Cases and Investigations in 2019
Since beginning in Brazil with the “Operation Car Wash” (“Operação Lava Jato”) investigation in 2014, the Odebrecht corruption scandal has been headline...
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US Fentanyl Seizure Suggests Evolving Mexican-Dominican Links
US authorities arrested two Dominican citizens in connection to a multimillion-dollar fentanyl shipment delivered from Mexico, suggesting that relations between...
Dominican Republic and Venezuela: Cocaine Across the Caribbean
Drug traffickers have a problem exporting drugs from Venezuela. There are few commercial flights, little container shipping, no tourists and a collapsed fishing...
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Trafficking Routes Up for Grabs After Fall of Top Caribbean Drug Kingpin
The man who was once considered the most powerful drug kingpin in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico has been convicted and sentenced to decades in a US prison,...
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Fleeing Venezuelans a Business Opportunity for Organized Crime
Venezuelans fleeing the nation's political and economic crisis are boosting both criminal profits and the sources of cheap labor for organized crime across the...
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Top Dominican Republic Officials Imprisoned Pending Odebrecht Trial
Several top officials in the Dominican Republic have been remanded to pretrial detention for alleged ties with a massive graft scandal involving Brazilian...
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String of Large Drug Seizures Suggests Growth in Caribbean Trafficking
The US Coast Guard recently offloaded in Puerto Rico more than a metric ton of cocaine, the latest in a string of seizures that points to a potential growth in the...
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Weekly InSight: The Dominican Republic, the Caribbean’s Cocaine Bridge
In our April 27 Facebook Live session, Co-director Jeremy McDermott spoke with Senior Editor Mike LaSusa about InSight Crime's research and reporting on the...
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Arrests Highlight Role of Dominican Crime Groups in International Drug Trade
Authorities say the majority of some 20 gang members detained in the Bronx neighborhood of New York City last week were Dominican, shedding light on how the low...
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Ex-Military Bank Robbers in DR Highlight Security Force Corruption
The case of a group of bank robbers in the Dominican Republic headed by a former member of the military raises concerns about corruption and criminalization within...
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‘Most Wanted’ Peru Drug Trafficker Captured in Dominican Republic
A suspected drug trafficker named earlier this year on Perus list of most wanted fugitives has been captured in the Dominican Republic, another sign that Peruvian...
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Dominican Republic’s Former Anti-Drug Chief Sentenced to 20 Years
The Dominican Republic's former top anti-narcotics official was sentenced to 20 years in prison for cocaine theft in a case that illustrates how the island's...