A series of contracts of business intent between the defendant Ángel Rondón and the Brazilian company Odebrecht were conscripted before the national district’s first collegiate court during the merit trial hearing, followed by the six involved in the infamous case.
With the court secretary’s reading of test number one of the documents, the prosecution is trying to prove the accusation of the bribes distributed by the construction company in order to get commissions from state works. Specifically, it corresponds to part 1.3.
The Defendant Rondón on each reading of the documents to comment that the above contracts were for business purposes, that they were not signed or notarized by a solicitor attorney.
He stated that the documents were seized by prosecutors from the special prosecutor for the prosecution of administrative corruption (Pepca) during the search in his hometown, after insisting that they were designs for projects that were not being implemented.
The president of the court, Gisell Méndez, made a comment to the secretary after the start of the lecture, so that every time she reads one of those contracts, it is indicated whether they have been signed by the parties.
The business intent contracts between the parties concern the sale of real estate, terms in which Rondón would work with the Brazilian construction company to provide its service, a confidentiality agreement between the parties, among others.
Likewise, the court secretary read a series of newspaper clippings to establish that Defendant Rondón was engaged in animal husbandry, a medal of merit awarded by former President Danilo Medina, as well as an acknowledgment by the This Cattle Breeders’ Association to the owner of Hacienda Los Ángeles en La Fábrica Agroindustrial Los Ángeles.
Reports and Bribes
Earlier, the court ruled that the reports of employees 1 and 54 of the Odebrecht company, identified as Marcelo Odebrecht and Marcos Vasconcelos Cruz, should not be read in their entirety.
The court, which also consists of Tania Yunes and Jisell Naranjo, has made the decision as some of the charges that will not be recorded is because they have not been fully translated into Spanish.
In this sense, the judges ordered the court secretary to read only those parts that are in Spanish, because according to the Code of Criminal Procedure, only documents in this language can be included in the process. The court ruled that she will first read the reports of employee 1 (Marcelo Odebrecht) in Spanish, with whose reports Pepca wants to demonstrate the alleged participation of the six defendants in the bribery scheme.
Pepca’s prosecutors, Wilson Camacho, chief; Mirna Ortiz, body process coordinator. and José Miguel Marmolejo, had asked the court to fully include the award-winning statements of the Brazilian company’s executives. This led to opposition from the defendant’s defense attorneys, requesting that the motion be dismissed after finding that the translations had not been properly deposited with the Supreme Court secretariat by the Public Prosecution Service and that this had already been done. by the court.
Follow Monday.
The National District Collegiate Court banned the continuation of the merits trial in the Odebret case yesterday for next Monday at 9:00 a.m.
US $ 92 million.
The Brazilian company admitted to paying $ 92 million in bribes for the award of public works in the Dominican Republic.
The accused.
In addition to Ángel Rondón Rijo, Víctor Díaz Rúa, Conrado Pittaluga Arzeno, Porfirio Andrés Bautista García, Juan Roberto Rodríguez Hernández and former PLD senator Tommy Galán are also accused.