The business of the signing of players for Major League teams was used as a money laundering scheme by the defendants in the Operation Falcón case, documents of the coercion measure against the 21 prisoners revealed.
The Public Ministry mentioned the Agramonte Torres SRL Baseball Academy in Santiago as one of the money laundering tools of Juan Carlos Durán Rodríguez, lawyer for Erick Randhiel Mosquea Polanco, accused of being one of the group’s main drug traffickers.
“This criminal group uses multiple types of those already known for money laundering of its drug trafficking activities, managing to identify movements of billions of pesos in some unjustified cases and in others mixed with legal money. to try to give appearance and introduce the same in the formal Dominican economy. In the same way, the physical and legal persons that make up this network have been identified more than three billion pesos placed both in the financial sector and in the non-financial sector ”, says the judicial document.
And he adds: “Known typologies in the non-financial sector in the area of gambling, specifically in betting banks to justify profits, even if they represent losses in proportion to the money invested. As well as representation of professional players who are hired by recognized baseball firms to justify the income, through the company called Academia de baseball Agramonte Torres SRL ”.
Marcos Agramonte, who operates the program, is a former Texas Rangers midfielder who was fired after 2001 after playing strong class A after it was detected that he had altered his documents to sign for professionalism.
He played for the San Diego Padres in AA in 2004 after serving a one-year suspension.
Also betting banks
In the network, the defendants also made sports bets as part of the process to launder money from drug trafficking, according to investigations by the Public Ministry.
“Enerio Rafael Sandoval Valdez is in charge of coordinating the bets that Erick R. Mosquea Polanco carries out together with Kelvin A. Torres Bueno, from Betctris Banca de Betting SRL, through this activity Enerio Rafael Sandoval Valdez tells you what to invest your money in and in The banks in which he must do it, once he is the winner, he receives and manages the profits of which he takes his percentage, thus allowing large amounts of money product of drug trafficking to enter the Dominican financial system without being detected by the authorities, ”he says. the Public Ministry.
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