Mantequilla is arrested on charges of fraud and death threat
Wilkin García Peguero (Mantequilla) has 25 formal complaints against him for fraud, presented by citizens through lawyers to the Monte Plata prosecutor’s office, as well as about 10 complaints filed directly by citizens.
This was reported tonight by the Public Ministry, which has “Mantequilla” under arrest on charges of fraud and death threat.
The prosecutor’s office indicated that it managed, on the 9th of this month, the arrest warrant against García Peguero for violation of articles 307 and 405 of the Dominican Penal Code.
Thus, Carmen Daniela Araujo, chief judge of the Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of the Judicial District of Monte Plata, issued arrest warrant no. 668-2022-SAJP-01389 against the defendant.
The MP stated that García Peguero raised millions of pesos through an unregulated company called 3.14 Inversiones World Wide, which operated in a commercial premises and in a residence in the Sabana Grande de Boyá municipality, and about which the financial authorities warned the population that it was a pyramid business.
Likewise, he indicated that “Mantequilla” was arrested by the National Police in the National District and will be transferred to Monte Plata, where the prosecutor Ramona Santana Uceta will proceed to request preventive detention in the next few hours, as a measure of coercion against him.