Two Promipyme employees are arrested in the case and three people remain on the run, while today a measure of coercion will be requested in the case.
MONTE PLATA.- Some 8.4 million pesos would have been stolen from the Council for the Promotion and Support of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (Promipyme) through an alleged scam orchestrated by a network of employees in complicity with a bank employee by approving loans to people who never made them. they had requested and some even died.
Two Promipyme employees are arrested in the case and three people remain on the run, while today a measure of coercion will be requested in the case.
Those captured so far are José Miguel Moreno and Nelson Ortiz (El Cojo). The group would have issued 19 loans during March and withdrew in cash about 5 million pesos of which had been disbursed in the account of the supposed beneficiaries.
The alleged scheme would have been detected when a woman went to a bank branch for a problem with her debit card and being there they told her that she had 500 thousand pesos in her account, an amount that she did not recognize. In that branch they informed him that his card did not work because it had been replaced and that he had a withdrawal of 20 thousand pesos.
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