SANTO DOMINGO.- The Public Ministry continued this Monday with the presentation of the evidence that, it assures, demonstrates the irregular actions committed by Juan Alexis Medina Sánchez and his companies, during the preliminary hearing of the Anti-Octopus Case, which is heard by the Seventh Investigating Court of the National District.
Court Attorney Mirna Ortiz, Litigation Coordinator of the Specialized Attorney for the Persecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca), stressed that the Public Ministry continues to advance with the presentation of evidence.
“We have advanced up to 1,200 of the tests offered by the Public Ministry, tests that demonstrate all the transactions, both money laundering and the irregular hiring transactions of Alexis Medina and his companies in all public institutions,” he detailed.
Likewise, he said that they addressed all the irregular and illegal contracts that they had in the Patrimonial Fund of the Reformed Companies (Fonper) and the reports of the Chamber of Accounts of the Dominican Republic, which he said are contained in those 1,200 tests and that reflect the irregularities found.
He explained that Fonper was linked to Suim Suplidores, General Supply, Wattmax and Dominical, several of the companies linked to Alexis Medina. “All irregularly competing in Fonper, winning the tenders irregularly, since they were the only companies that participated in price comparisons and obviously won those contracts,” he explained.
Ortiz added that these processes were convened directly on the instructions of Magalys Medina, former vice president of Fonper. “Those companies, only they submitted quotes and only they evidently won the contracts,” she stressed.
Mirna Ortiz issued her statements while answering questions from the press at the Palace of Justice of Ciudad Nueva, in the National District.
The reading of the indictment was divided into 10 volumes. Today we advanced to number 6, including up to page 2,258 of some 3,445 that the file contains.
The Public Ministry was represented by Wilson Camacho, head of Pepca, court attorney Ortiz and prosecutors Ernesto Guzmán, Elizabeth Paredes, José Miguel Marmolejos, Héctor García and Yoneivy González.
Judge Deiby Timoteo Peguero, of the Seventh Investigating Court of the National District, after concluding the day’s agenda, postponed the continuation of the preliminary hearing for next Friday, November 11, starting at 2:00 in the afternoon.
The Public Ministry accuses Juan Alexis Medina Sánchez and the former vice president of Fonper, Carmen Magalys Medina Sánchez, brothers of former president Danilo Medina Sánchez, as well as 27 other individuals and 21 companies that face charges of corruption and money laundering for the case of administrative corruption. of assets.
Also involved are 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 general director 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 criminal prosecution body 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.
Regarding Juan Alexis Medina Sánchez, the main defendant, the file establishes that he created a corporate network and, using influence peddling, being the brother of former President of the Republic Danilo Medina Sánchez (constitutional periods 2012-2016, 2016-2020), carried out a set of fraudulent maneuvers, in association with officials.
He states that he had State works, goods and services awarded in his name, as well as to third parties, operating as organized crime, together with his frontmen and frontmen, bribing, falsifying data, using false documents, swindling and giving the appearance of legitimacy of the monetary appropriations resulting from the aforementioned crimes and predicate offenses, conduct typical of money laundering.
The criminal types incurred by the defendants include criminal association, fraud against the State, embezzlement, complicity in embezzlement, active and passive bribery, use of false documents, illicit financing of political campaigns, influence peddling, money laundering, coalition officials, extortion, influence peddling and falsity in public deeds, as well as falsification and omission in the sworn statement, illicit enrichment, prevarication, use of front names and figurehead.
