Santo Domingo.- The Public Ministry affirmed this Friday that the companies managed by Alexis Medina Sánchez, prosecuted for administrative corruption, operated as a “true octopus” that focused its commercial relations almost exclusively with the Dominican State, which was directed by one of the brothers of the defendant.
Court Attorney Mirna Ortiz, Litigation Coordinator of the Specialized Attorney for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca), highlighted the progress of the process.
“Today we were seeing how the network of companies managed by Alexis Medina Sánchez worked like a real octopus. How these companies had commercial relations almost entirely with the Dominican State as their only client, how these companies were created for the most part when Danilo Medina came to power, and how their objective was to carry out these illegal contracts,” he emphasized.
It argued that Juan Alexis Medina Sánchez entered and left these companies as a partner, shareholder or representative “winning medal”, with the aim of being there or not, depending on the state company with which he was going to contract.
“The link that existed between these companies was also evidenced, since from the commercial transactions it was possible to observe how these companies capitalized each other with the aim of being able to have the income that would justify the fraudulent contracting with the Dominican State,” he stressed. .
Regarding the process, he said “we are going at a good pace. For the next hearing on Monday, we understand that we will finish with the remaining companies. We will enter the part of the illicit financing of political campaigns and we will expose the legal qualification. After that, what would correspond would be the presentation of the evidence.”
Mirna Ortiz made her statements when speaking to the press after the hearing on Friday ended.
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Regarding the recent complaint by the Public Ministry in the sense that the defendants Juan Alexis Medina Sánchez and Carmen Magalys Medina Sánchez threatened the prosecutors, he recalled that the threats were made in the context of leaving the hearing.
“Everyone who was present at that time, then, was able to see how the accused Carmen Magalys Medina Sánchez, when mentioning in the factual account of the acts of corruption committed by her husband in support of the actions of Alexis Medina, then she She came out upset, uttering insults, telling the members of the Public Ministry that we were going to pay her, that this did not stay like this… and situations of that nature, “he explained.
The court attorney stated: “we, as magistrate Wilson Camacho (head of Pepca) said, we are not afraid of these insinuations or these threats; We have been prosecutors for many years in these matters and we are ready to continue fighting corruption as we have done so far.”
Mirna Ortiz headed the litigation team that represented the Public Ministry during the hearing together with Ernesto Guzmán, Héctor García and Yoneivy González.
Judge Deiby Timoteo Peguero, of the Seventh Investigating Court of the National District, continues to hear the accusation from the Public Ministry.
In the hearing this Friday, held for reasons of space in the Chamber of the Second Collegiate Court of the National District, the representatives of the Public Ministry read the accusation from page 832 to 1,038, of some 3,445 pages that the file contains.
The Public Ministry accuses Juan Alexis Medina Sánchez and the former vice president of the Patrimonial Fund of Reformed Companies (Fonper) Carmen Magalys Medina Sánchez, brothers of former president Danilo Medina Sánchez, as well as 27 other individuals and 21 companies facing charges. for corruption and money laundering.
The judicial process is also being carried out against the former president of Fonper Fernando Rosa; the former Minister of Public Health Lorenzo Wilfredo (Freddy) Hidalgo Núñez; José Dolores Santana Carmona and Wacal Bernabé Méndez Pineda, as well as Francisco Pagán Rodríguez, former director general of the former Office of Supervising Engineers of State Works (Oisoe), and the former inspector of that institution Aquiles Alejandro Christopher Sánchez.
The accusation of the case presented by Pepca and the General Directorate of Persecution of the Public Ministry also includes Julián Esteban Suriel Suazo, former comptroller general Rafael Antonio Germosén Andújar and Domingo Antonio Santiago Muñoz.
Likewise, Carlos Martín Montes de Oca Vásquez and Paola Mercedes Molina Suazo are involved.
The Public Ministry also filed charges against the legal entities General Supply Corporation SRL, Domedical Supply SRL, Fuel América Inc. Dominicana SRL, and Globus Electrical SRL, among others.
The accusation indicates that the company General Supply Corporation SRL engaged in illicit conduct to commit acts of corruption in the Ministry of Public Works and the Oisoe, the Rural and Suburban Electrification Unit (UERS) and in other public institutions, the company Indicates that the company General Supply Corporation SRL with its actions also affected the freedom of enterprise as it became a monopoly in some public institutions for influence peddling and payment of bribes through checks issued by it, in which the company was awarded goods and services that broke all the principles and norms of the purchasing and contracting law and its regulations.
It specifies that this company used and hired professionals such as accountants, to adulterate, falsify and omit information in order to commit criminal acts, which is known as PML, Professional Money Laundry, money laundering professionals.
