Puerto Plata Prosecutor’s Office alerts about a new criminal modality called “Money Mule”
Offering details in this regard, Magistrate Warlyn Alberto Tavárez, explained that citizens should exercise caution when they are contacted to go and find someone else’s money in banks and shipping agencies.
He specified that someone who receives or transfers money of unknown origin received in his account in exchange for a commission becomes a “Money Mule” which is illegal and helps criminal organizations to launder money and easily transfer it to criminals.
He said that criminals recruit their victims in different ways, whether by pretending to be real job offers, with the slogans “Work from home” by pretending to be a money transfer agent, but in reality, what is being done is transferring the illicit money to bands of antisocials.
Tavárez warned that the people most wanted by criminal organizations are citizens who have recently arrived in the country, the unemployed, students, people with economic problems, mainly men between 18 and 34 years old, and women of any age.
“In our legislation, being a“ Money Mule ”is punished as complicity in the crime that gives rise to obtaining the money. So be careful with going to get someone money from the bank, Caribe Express and Western Union. Do not fall on hooks! ”, Said the representative of the Public Ministry.
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