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The Dominican Republic enacted a Civil Forfeiture Law on July 28, 2022, that will enter into effect one year after enactment. This Law provides tools to the State to prosecute assets that have been obtained through illicit activities, through an in-rem  judicial...

This Law regulates the international private relations of civil and commercial nature in the Dominican Republic, in particular, (i) the extent and limits of the Dominican jurisdiction; (ii) the determination of the applicable law; and (iii) the terms of the...

This Law, enacted in February of 2019, regulates the illicit marketing of pharmaceutical products, hydrocarbons, products and derivatives of alcohol and tobacco. The Specialized Prosecuting Office against the Illicit Trade of Goods and Crimes of the DR Attorney...

Law No. 155-17 against Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism, was enacted on May 31, 2017, which changed considerably the money laundering prevention in the Dominican Republic.  The enactment of this law responded to the Dominican Republic incorporation to the...

The Dominican Taxing Authority (Dirección General de Impuestos Internos - DGII) issued the General Rule No. 08-2014 for the release of real property to those individuals and companies that have sold a property and whose purchaser has not made ​​the payment of the Real...

There are over 365,000 cases of lots, of which 230,000 overlap in less than 1%. The Supreme Court of Justice issued the Rule No. 3764-2014 in an effort to resolve the overlapping of land surveys. Historically there have been location and displacement errors on the...

Law No. 310-14, enacted on August 8, 2014, addresses unsolicited commercial communications via email.  This Law stipulates that all electronic commercial communications must contain the term “publicidad”, the Spanish language equivalent of “marketing”, in the subject...

Data Protection Law No. 172-13 was enacted on December 13, 2013 (Data Protection Law). The objective of the Law is to ensure the protection of personal data located in files, records, data banks, or other technical means and to regulate the processing of data recorded...

SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC – FEBRUARY 2015 – Aimée Prieto, a partner in the Dominican Republic’s business law firm Prieto Cabrera & Asociados, has become the newest member of FraudNet, the World’s Leading Asset Recovery Legal Network as ranked by Chambers...