The National District’s fourth investigating judge sent retired Major General Pedro Rafael Peña Antonio, former Secretary of Defense, and Colonel Carlos Piccini Núñez, former director of special projects of the Dominican Air Force (FAD), on merit for receiving bribes . From the USA. $ 3.5 million distributed by the Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica (Embraer) to be selected as the supplier of eight Super Tucano aircraft.
The court also filed a lawsuit against Daniel Aquino Hernández, of the company 4D Business Group, SA (now 4D Business Group, SRL), representing the defendant, as well as the company Magycorp, SA (now Magicorp, SRL).
Meanwhile, an order was issued that no trial was issued against the defendants Félix del Orbe Berroa and Ysrael Abreu Rosario.
With regard to the businessman Daniel Aquino Méndez, another of the defendants in the bribery case, he has been separated from the trial that is in the preliminary stages, and the hearing against him will take place on April 15 next, on health matters.
The decision was taken by the judge of the fourth investigating judge of the national district, Raquel Astacio, after he partially acknowledged the accusation of the prosecution, represented by prosecutors Rosa Alba García and María Melenciano.
Due to this corruption case, the Embraer company, which admitted the delivery of bribes, was ordered to pay $ 7 million to the Dominican State in 2018.
The Office of the Special Prosecutor for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca) went on to submit to a court for violations of several articles of the Dominican Penal Code, Law No. 448-06 on Trade and Investment Bribery, and the old Law 72-02 on money laundering against the Dominican state.
During the investigation of the case, which began in 2016, the judicial authority was able to obtain sufficient evidence linking the suspect to this act of administrative corruption.
The investigations covered the tracking of transfers of funds at home and abroad, analysis and verification of assets, investigation of bank account movements, as well as the location and investigation of the origin of goods.
The prosecution offered the information via a press release, stressing its determination to seek justice and achieve exemplary punishment against the defendants.