Judge Fátima Veloz, of the Permanent Attention Office of the National District, is currently issuing her decision on the request for a coercive measure against Hugo Berasformer director of the National Institute of Traffic and Land Transportation (INTRANT), José Ángel Gómez Canaán (Jochi), owner of the company Aurix SAS, and the others involved in the chameleon case.
According to what was reported by the head of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (PEPCA), Wilson Camacho, the Public Ministry presented to the court a list of the accused, which demonstrates that the criminal structure was following up on members. of the justice system and reveals its modus operandi.
Wilson Camacho explained that this and other evidence is more than enough for Judge Fátima Veloz, of the Permanent Attention Office of the National District, to accept the request of the Public Ministry, which includes the request for preventive detention and the declaration of the case as complex. , due to the volume of evidence and the seriousness of the alleged acts.
The accused are the former director of the National Institute of Traffic and Land Transportation (INTRANT), Hugo Beras; Frank Díaz Warden, former Dispatch Coordinator and representative of Beras before the INTRANT Purchasing Committee; Samuel Gregorio Baquero Sepúlveda, former technology director of INTRANT; José Ángel Gómez Canaán (Jochi), owner of the company Aurix SAS; Pedro Vinicio Padovani Báez, former head of the INTRANT Traffic Control Center; Juan Francisco Álvarez Carbuccia, administrative and financial director of INTRANT and Carlos José Peguero Vargas.
Camacho also warned that, as the investigation progresses, new people and accusations will be added to the process. “The development of the research will continue to tell us who and what we should add,” he said.
During Operation Chameleon, residences and companies were raided in the National District, Santo Domingo Este, San Cristóbal and Punta Cana. Approximately 170 members of the National Police, Special Units and more than 30 specialized prosecutors against organized crime participated in this operation. .
In the raids, hundreds of evidence were seized that confirm the accusations of the Public Ministry. For this reason, the prosecution body has described Operation Chameleon as one of the “most successful” against organized crime.
The Public Ministry said that it presented, among other evidence, a fraudulent contract for the modernization of the Greater Santo Domingo traffic light system and an illegal contract between the Ministry of Defense and the Aurix company, used to usurp functions of intelligence, security and defense of the state. Evidence related to the sabotage of the traffic light network in August was also presented, all of them key elements of the process.
Those accused in Operation Camaleón are investigated for conduct typical of what is established in articles 146, numeral 1 of the Constitution of the Dominican Republic (prohibition of corruption); articles 123, 124 (coalition of officials), 147, 150 and 151 of the Dominican Penal Code (use of private document); 171 and 172 (embezzlement), articles 265 and 266 (association of criminals), as well as article 405 (fraud to the detriment of the Dominican State) of the Dominican Penal Code; articles 11, 17, 27, and 28 (sabotage, identity theft, crimes and offenses against the nation, and acts of terrorism), of Law no. 53-07, against High Technology Crimes and Crimes.
As well as, articles 5, 33, 34, 35, 36, (smuggling) of Law 17-19 on the Eradication of Illicit Trade, Smuggling and Counterfeiting of Regulated Products; and articles 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, and 10 (Money Laundering) of Law 155-17 on Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism, articles 5, 8 letter F and 26 of Law no. 267-08 on Terrorism, and creates the National Anti-Terrorist Committee and the National Anti-Terrorist Directorate, articles 66, 67 and 69 of Law 631-16, for the Control and Regulation of Weapons, Ammunition and Related Materials, all of this to the detriment of the State Dominican.
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