Santo Domingo, RD.
“The engineer has no comments,” was what the former director of the Office for the Reordering of Transport (Opret), Diandino Peña, said on his arrival at the Public Prosecutor’s Office for questioning at the Office of the Special Prosecutor for the Prosecution of Administrative corruption (Pepca).
The former official arrived before the scheduled time for his interview with the prosecuting body and after being approached he indicated by journalists that he did not know why he was called.
On Wednesday, it was revealed that the former official had been subpoenaed for Pepca at 4 p.m. after they filed a complaint against him with the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) in the middle of last month.
According to this document, Peña, his family and his alleged front men are told they stole more than $ 9.2 billion during his tenure at Opret.
In particular, he was accused of using 14 companies associated with his relatives to obtain various works contracts in the construction of Santo Domingo’s metro lines, violating several laws, including Law 340-06 on Public Procurement and Contracts, and the Law on Public Administration.
Among the crimes that Peña has allegedly committed are the crimes of association of criminals, fraud against the state, conviction, money laundering of assets arising from corruption and others that are sanctioned by the Dominican Penal Code.