The Director of Prosecution of the Public Ministry, Yeni Berenice Reynoso, affirmed yesterday that it is a shame to say that what Manuel Rivas committed in the Metropolitan Office of Bus Services (OMSA) was administrative faults, when he irregularly handled more than 3 billion of weights.
“To say that what Rivas committed was administrative offenses is extremely shameful,” said Berenice Reynoso.
He regretted the lack of foundation of the latest decisions issued in the Antipulpo, OMSA and KAF cases, in this last operation an arsenal of weapons was seized.
The Public Ministry maintains that with the ruling in the OMSA case, all the rules for assessing the evidence were violated.
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“It is evident that there was evidence of the embezzlement of more than 3 billion, but now no one is responsible because a court understood that even making fictitious payments by Rivas was an administrative fault,” the MP reacted to said decision issued by the Second Court Collegiate of the National District.
CC Audit
The audit delivered by the Chamber of Accounts to the Specialized Attorney for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca) establishes that in the OMSA there was an irregular handling of more than 3 billion pesos, for which the crime prosecution agency reported that it works in the appeal to appeal the decision that discharged his former director, Manuel Rivas.
According to the expertise of the CC, in the OMSA 3 thousand 535 purchase orders were issued to 33 suppliers, without a contract being made, for an amount paid amounting to 2 thousand 157 million 64 thousand 862 pesos, which represents the largest payment percentage for 64% of the total paid.
“We observed purchase orders issued within a range of three months for the same object of contracting goods and/or services, and that together reach the amount of the thresholds for the contracting modality to be applied and preparation of contracts between the parties” , says said audit, which according to the Public ministry evidences a clear violation of Law 440 -06.
Judgment
The Second Collegiate Court of the National District discharged the former director of the OMSA, Manuel Rivas, Víctor Ravelo Campos and José Antonio Mercado Blanco, (el Grande).
Judges Claribel Nivar Arias, Yissel Soto and Clara Sobeida Castillo based their ruling on the argument that complicity could not be determined in any of the cases of Heidy Carolina Peña (the wife of Argenis Contreras) for which she was also discharged as well as Lilian Francisca Suárez Jáquez and Jorge Luis Abreu Fabián (the Taxi Driver).
Rejection
This decision has generated an avalanche of criticism from popular organizations and civil society that fight against corruption, which has become a social scourge that threatens the well-being of the majority of Dominicans.
Corrupt politicians with the money they have stolen from the Dominican State have prevented the construction of hospitals, schools, avenues, elevated roads and other infrastructure works, according to many entities that work to improve economic and social indicators.
Indignation
Other rulings that have generated outrage in society is the decision of the judge of the seventh Investigating Court of the National District that varied the preventive detention of Alexis Medina, Fernando Rosa, and José Dolores Santana,
implicated in the Antipulpo case, as well as the decision of the Santiago Court of Permanent Attention that ordered the release of two implicated in the operation called KAF.
