The Office of the Special Prosecutor for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (PEPCA) convened the former director of the Office for the Reorganization of Transport (Opret) on Wednesday afternoon at 4 a.m. Diandino Peña, are being investigated for alleged corruption cases.
A criminal complaint has been filed against Diandino Peña at the Attorney General’s Office, his wife and other relatives and suspected front men, accused of the theft of over 9,200 million as they passed through Opret.
The group will be charged with the crimes of the association of criminals, fraud against the state, reprieve, money laundering of assets resulting from corruption and other crimes punishable by the Dominican Criminal Code.
Sed de Justicia’s indictment states that Peña Críque, in his capacity as director of the Opret, used 14 companies associated with his children, wife, son-in-law, close friends as a curtain to win a significant number of construction contracts from the Santo Domingo metro lines, which violate several laws, including Law 340-06 on Public Procurement and Contracts, and the Law on Public Administration.
According to the indictment, the corruption scheme included rank-to-rank contracts, simulation of purchasing processes through price comparison, and rerouting metro equipment for Diandino Peña and its partners to build the luxurious Silver Sun shopping plaza.
Report by Alicia Ortega
On May 15, 2017, in the program El Informe, journalist Alicia Ortega revealed data about engineer Diandino Peña’s unreported fortune