Woman, 83, files charges in US$341M Peravia bank fraud

Santo Domingo.- Dr. Amparo Flor de Francia Gonzalez, 83, withmore than 35 years living and practicing medicine in Puerto Rico, on Thursday filedfraud charges against executives of the failed Peravia bank.

The physician filed charges of criminal conspiracy, breachof trust, money laundering and illicit enrichment, among others in the NationalDistrict Office of the Prosecutor.

She said she had deposited RD$14.3 million in Peravia bank,through four CDs, but hasn’t been able to recover her money, in the fraud estimatedat US$341.0 million.

Gonzalez’s lawyer Jose A. Peralta said she filed the chargesagainst Peravia executives Nelson Serret Sugrañez, Gabriel A. Jiménez Aray,Carlos A. Serret Sugrañez, Jorge Serret Sugrañez, José L. Santoro Castellano,Miriam A. Serret Sugrañez, Simón J. Jiménez Salas, Luis M, Peña Melo, SocorroSantoro, José Carlos Bergantiños, Robert Lockward, Daniel Morales Santoro, YeseniaSerret Aponte and Evelyn Serret Aponte.