The former Attorney General of the Republic, Jean Alain Rodríguezasked the Public Ministry not to oppose his defense in freedom, by guaranteeing that he will attend all the processes he faces in court for the case Operation Medusa.
At Rodríguez’s request, the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for the Persecution of Corruption (Pepca) responded that the former official “is terrified of the accusation” that has been filed against him and that it will conclude with a shipment to background judgment in which he will be condemned and that is what he wants to “flee” from.
“You are in time to set an example and respect the law, it is time to repair, comply and leave personal aspects aside and not oppose my defense in freedom, guaranteeing you and the Dominican people, that as always, I will be present whenever necessary to defend my honor and prove my innocence, before the courts, before you, in front of my family and the whole of society,” he assured. Jean-Alainwho at the end of the month he will serve 15 months in prison, of the 18 that were imposed on him as a coercive measure.
Carlos Balcacer, one of their lawyers, informed that next Friday they will request before the Third Court of Instruction of the National District that the preventive detention be varied.
Jean-Alain He questioned that, contrary to what has happened with “alleged drug traffickers, officials of the current government and the Chamber of Accounts, inspectors who have been accused of espionage and even attorneys who They pardon prosecutors who place drugs in barbershopstheir rights and due process are respected and it is even ordered not to trample on their morals, as it should be”, in his case he said that “it has been quite the opposite”.
He maintains that he has been ordered to be imprisoned and kept in prison. Another example that he cited is that “those accused of the Odebrecht caseresearched, prepared and litigated largely by the same Wilson Camachothe attorney general, Miriam German Britobeing a judge of the Supreme Court of Justice, ordered the release of all the accused and today with two convicted, they too, correctly, their right to defend themselves in freedom has been respected.
He maintained that the Public Ministry has already concluded the investigation of the Medusa case “with supposed “success”, whose file, according to the deputy prosecutors in charge, affirm by all the media that “they are “armored”, which is why Rodríguez believes that “it is time” to defend yourself, “as appropriate in court and in freedom”.
what he is accused of
The former Attorney General of the Republic is accused of defrauding the State with more than 6,000 million pesos, for which he allegedly used a network, which has linked 41 people and 21 companies, one of them belongs to Lisandro José Macarrulla, son of the former Minister of the Presidency, Lisandro Macarrulla, which caused his resignation from the Government. The companies allegedly participated in irregular bids to be selected, but in exchange they had to pay 20 percent of the contracts received.
The court process of Operation Medusa It is in the preliminary trial stage, which has been postponed to December 19 to give the parties 60 days to prepare their defense. The Pepca ensures that, with the illicit money, Jean-Alain acquired a tourist villa in Bahía Chavón, with an area of 2,192.45 square meters, and a plot of 3,366 square meters in the exclusive Vista Lagos project. After acquiring the luxurious villa, the attorney allegedly paid an engineer more than 12 million pesos for its remodeling with money stolen from the State.
The head of Pepca, Wilson Camacho, says that Jean Alain “is terrified of the accusation”, which he assures meets all the objective criteria and from which he will have “no escape” and that for that reason he reacts that way.
He assures that the former prosecutor will be sent to a substantive trial, in which he will be sentenced and that is what he wants to “run away from.”
