The oldest Raul Alejandro Giron Jimenezwho in May 2021 marked the fate of four generals and other high-ranking officers accused of a fraud against the State amounting to RD$4,500, yesterday offered testimony in the trial of the defendants, of how the fraud was plotted and committed from 2005 to 2021 when the Public ministry He ruined everything with the Coral Operation.
In his first appearance before the judges of the First Collegiate Court of the National District, Girón, who went from being accused to being a witness for the prosecution, again admitted the facts of which he is accused in the case of administrative corruption, and defined the role of each of the generals involved.
Are they Adam Caceres Silvestre former director of the Presidential Security Corps (CUSEP); Julio Camilo de los Santos Viola, who replaced Cáceres Silvestre when he was arrested; Juan Carlos Torres Robiou, former director of the Tourist Security Corps (CESTUR); and Bonaerges Reyes Bautista.
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The institutions from which the fraud was committed were, in addition to Cusep and Cestur, the National Council for Children and Adolescents (CONANI)), then headed by the wife of General Torres Robiou, and where Núñez de Haza served as Financial Director.
In a brief summary, Girón told the Court that in 2005 he was working as a “payroll assistant or assistant” in an area of Politur (Cestur) when Núñez de Haza arrived there as an auditor.
He indicated that the general temporarily took him as his accounting assistant to a currency exchange agency on San Martín Avenue, where he said he met the accused. Rossy Guzman (the Shepherdess)and a bond of trust was fostered between them.
“As that company (the financial company) did not pay well, so to speak, and that is why it only lasted a few months, that is when Mr. Núñez de Haza, because a staff member was excluded from the payroll, came up with the following idea and told me: Girón, you are not going to replace that staff member who was excluded from the payroll this month, but I am going to inform you what you are going to do with that…”, explained Girón, who stated that he did what he was told, “and the money remains in the account.”
He added that after the general had identified those funds, more than RD$700,000, he ordered him to look for a person “to put that money in his name, pick it up from the bank and give it to him.” Girón said that he looked for the accused Erickson Brens Rosariowho was “a collecting head” in the framework.
He added that the money collected by the network “became more voluminous” and there were personal expenses for the general manager and for the financial manager on duty at Banco BHD, Nurys Lantigua.
