The National Institute of Traffic and Land Transportation (Intrant) only disbursed the initial payment of the contract for network installation traffic lights in Santo Domingo before, by order of the General Directorate of Public Contracts they stopped jobs.
The total paid amounts to 263.4 million pesos, equivalent to the 20% that is usually paid in contracts with the State for the beginning of the jobs.
He contract with the company property of José -Jochi- Gómez was signed on June 19, 2023 and was suspended by the former director of the Intrant, Hugo Berasbefore leaving office, in November of last year, by order of Public Contracts.
Once suspended contract The Public Property Rescue Unit, directed by lawyer Jorge Luis Polanco, was involved to carry out a audit of the jobs carried out and determine the degree of execution and whether it corresponded to the funds advanced.
That period between the suspension of contract and the end of the audit It has been interpreted as that the contract was currentwhich is incorrect, according to information offered to Free Diary.
It is at the end of the auditand when the Intrant is preparing to assume control on August 30, when the blackout in the traffic light network, which is cataloged in the accusation of the Public Ministry against Gómez as an act of terrorism.
Beras is accused of directing and authorizing the fraudulent awarding of million-dollar contracts to companies that did not have the necessary technical capabilities in the bidding process in which he was hired. Transcore Latam.
- In addition to network sabotage, Gómez is accused of fraud against the State, embezzlement, money laundering and theft of business identities, among other charges.
“For the purposes of verifying the payments made in favor of the company Transcore LatamSRL, was consulted in the Financial Management Information System (Sigef) and it was found that these were divided “into two releases and four items, for individual amounts of 65,867,549.85 pesos; two of these made as a payment in half of 20 % of the advance on August 17, 2023, through delivery number 3374, is indicated in the accusatory file prepared by the Public Ministry.
It adds that the other two remaining, as a balance of 20% of the advance, were on October 19, 2023 through issue number 4321.
