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DEA Supervisor Charged With Accepting Bribes From Foreigners To Help Them Get Non-Immigrant Visas To The U.S.
A Drug and Enforcement Administration supervisor working in the Dominican Republic has been charged with accepting thousands of dollars from foreigners to help them get non-immigrant visas to the U.S., according to a new report.
The arrest in Washington, D.C., of Melitón Cordero, who served as a special supervisory agent of the DEA in Santo Domingo, forces a deep reflection. It is not just that a high official linked to the fight against drug trafficking has been charged in the United States. What has caused the greatest impact is that he is a person who, recently, was decorated by the Dominican State by decree 520-24, receiving the Order of Merit of Duarte, Sanchez and…
The arrest and investigations into the former supervisor of the U.S. Drug Control Administration in the Dominican Republic, Militón Cordero, were not addressed this Monday during the meeting of the agencies that make up the Joint Task Force. “That was not a topic today in the Task Force,” she simply declared the Minister of Interior and Police, Faride Raful, when she was questioned by journalists at the National Police Palace about the case. (Re…
DEA Supervisor Charged with Bribery and Visa Fraud in Washington D.C., Prosecution by U.S. Attorney's Office Underway
DEA supervisor Meliton Cordero was arrested in Washington D.C. and charged with bribery conspiracy and visa fraud while stationed at the U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Republic.
The former head of the local DEA office arrested in the United States on federal charges of visa fraud and bribery is Dominican and had been decorated by the Dominican Government just months before his arrest. This is Melitón Cordero, 47, born in San Francisco de Macorís, who became the first Dominican to head the office of the Drug Control Administration (DEA) in the Dominican Republic, a position he held for six years. His arrest took place on…
The former head of the Dominican Republic's Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Melitón Cordero, is Dominican and the first to hold that position in the country. He was arrested in Washington, D.C., on federal charges of leading a bribery and visa fraud scheme that allegedly operated from the U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo. Cordero, 47, was born in San Francisco de Macorís and identified himself as a businessman before joining the DEA. He had …
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