SANTO DOMINGO.- Court attorney Mirna Ortiz highlighted the progress of the Public Prosecutor’s Office in presenting expert evidence during the hearing this Tuesday in the administrative corruption process against Major General Adán Cáceres Silvestre and the other defendants in the Coral and Coral 5G Case.
“We have made progress today in the presentation of the expert evidence,” highlighted the Litigation Coordinator of the Special Prosecutor’s Office for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca), who recalled that in the last hearing the Public Ministry concluded “with everything that is the testimonial evidence”.
Ortiz, who responded to the journalists who approached her as she left the Ciudad Nueva Palace of Justice, also referred to the incident presented by the defenses, on which the court ruled in favor of the Public Ministry.
“The judge has just ruled on an incident presented by the defenses, in relation to the exhibition of documentary evidence, and we are in that process, of the presentation of all the evidence and documents that we have offered in this process,” he specified.
In this regard, Ortiz explained that “the defenses want the Public Ministry to present one by one all the physical and original documentary evidence, to which the judge has understood, according to what was stated by the Public Ministry, that in this hearing They exhibit evidence – that is typical of the trial – that their mere offer is enough.”
The Pepca litigant, who was accompanied at the hearing by prosecutors Jonathan Pérez, Arolin Lemus, Marinel Brea and Melbin Romero, said that the court understood that the defenses had enough time to approach the prosecution body to find out the original physical evidence.
“Within the eight months that have elapsed in the holding of this hearing, they should have approached the Public Ministry to be able to see all the original evidence; that has been the court’s decision,” said Ortiz.
The titular judge of the Sixth Investigating Court of the National District, Yanibet Rivas, will continue to hear the expert evidence next Friday the 6th starting at 9:00 in the morning.
With the Coral and Coral 5G operations, which involve those accused of administrative corruption, the Public Ministry filed charges for this crime against 48 people, 30 individuals and 18 legal entities, accused of defrauding the Dominican State with more than 4,000 million pesos.
The network of corruption operated in the Presidential Security Corps (Cusep), the Specialized Tourist Security Corps (Cestur) and the National Council for Children and Adolescents (Conani).
In addition to Major General Cáceres Silvestre, among those accused of Operation Coral are Rossy Guzmán Sánchez (La Pastora), police corporal Tanner Antonio Flete Guzmán (son of the nun), police colonel Rafael Núñez de Aza and Army sergeant Alejandro Jose Montero Cruz.
In Operation Coral 5G, derived from Operation Coral, Generals Juan Carlos Torres Robiou (FARD), Boanerges Reyes Batista (ARD) and Julio Camilo de los Santos Viola (FARD) were arrested, as well as the captain of the ship (ARD) Franklin Mata Flores and José Manuel Rosario Pirón.
Carlos Lantigua, Alfredo Pichardo, Erasmo Roger Pérez, Jehohanan Lucía Rodríguez, Yehudy Blandesmil Guzmán and Esmeralda Ortega Polanco are also implicated in the case.
