The list of former officials of Danilo Medina’s former government, family members and friends, and Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) leaders who have been investigated to account for their achievements in public administration and the origin of their assets, continues to grow. .
In recent months, several former officials from the latest PLD administration have had to go to the Attorney General’s office, even more than once, although no court proceedings have been filed since early December.
Antipulpo
On that date, 11 people, including former government officials of Medina, family members and friends, were arrested in the corruption file dubbed “Operation Antipulpo”, who were brought to trial and are currently serving some form of coercion, some of them in protective custody. in Najayo and others, domicile.
Authorities have not provided much detail on the unlawful actions they attribute to those questioned by representatives of the Special Prosecutor for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (PEPCA) and the National Prosecution Directorate of the Public Prosecution Service.
In general, they have limited themselves to mentioning the crimes in some cases related to administrative corruption, including embezzlement, fraud, money laundering, association of criminals, coalition of officials, forgery of public documents and irregularities in affidavits of assets they have submitted to the Court.
The people surveyed are usually not very numerous when they arrive and leave the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) headquarters where the investigations are conducted, some even prefer to remain silent and others are very brief when asked about the reason for the summons.
More recently
The last to be questioned on Thursday was the former Director of Education and former Home Affairs and Police Minister of the previous government, Carlos Amarante Baret, who, when questioned about the reasons for the subpoena, confined himself to the following : will refer to the topic later ”. In investigations into former Finance Minister Donald Guerrero and former Reserve Bank General Manager Simón Lizardo Mézquita, this was one of the few cases in which the prosecution provided details of the reasons for the hearings.
On February 9, the PGR reported in a press release that the prosecution’s action against Guerrero and Lizardo is part of a public complaint by the Budget Director, José Rijo Presbot, about irregular payments to contractors in the final phase of Danilo Medina’s efforts (2012 -2020), of approximately 21,000 million pesos.
According to the PGR, that amount covered 11,000 million pesos for the payment of hot asphalt concrete that was then leased by the Ministry of Public Works, Gonzalo Castillo, for a road construction plan.
KNOWING MORE
Others.
The former director of OPRET, Diandino Peña; the former Economy Minister, Juan Temístocles Montás; Senator Felix Bautista; Deputy Radhamés Camacho, Pastor Rossy Guzmán Sánchez, for his alleged affiliation with Major General Adams Cáceres, head of the former President Medina’s corps of military assistants. Others were President Medina’s assistant Robert de la Cruz; the former director of the presidency’s social plan, Iris Guaba.