Extraparted or allies to the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) have been a “headache” for the current government, for being linked in cases of irregularities in the exercise of their functions.
Some of the scandals have constituted a “stain” in the transparency discourse raised by President Luis Abinader, who has made it clear that he has friends, “but not accomplices”, referring to administrative corruption.
The businessman Lisandro Macarrulla in August 2022 resigned as the Minister of the Presidency, after one of his companies was indicated in a case of corruption: Medusa operation, for which the general exprocter of the Republic, Jean Alain Rodríguez, was subjected to justice.
The most recent case has been the dismissal as director of the National Health Insurance (Senasa) of Santiago Hazim, who in the 2020 and 2024 elections headed the influential external sector of the official party.
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Last Saturday, the Government delivered to the Attorney General’s Office a report containing serious findings of irregularities detected in Senasa.
Bartolomé Pujals, a member of civil society, was dismissed as director of the Government Office of Information and Communication Technologies (OGTIC), Bartolomé Pujals, for being involved in the irregular management of alks of premises of premises for hundreds of millions of pesos.
Several sectors asked that Pujals, who is currently ambassador to the country before the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), was taken to the “bench” of the accused.
Last month, the businessman and vice president of the Unified Council of the Electricity Distributor companies (CEED), Celso Marranzini, informed that he will submit to justice to the ex -administrator of Edeeste, Manuel Mejía Naut, for manipulating the electrical bill of at least 42 thousand clients.
In the particular case of Marranzini, which also directs the Tecnoelectric Punta Catalina, this one has been in the “candlestick” for the bits of blackouts that affect the country, even a resolution is discussed to be questioned by the Chamber of Deputies.
In October 2024, there were Beras, former director of the National Institute of Terrestrial Transit and Transportation (Intrant) was subjected to justice by the hired company Transcore Latam for the process of execution of the Semaphoric System of Gran Santo Domingo.
In 2021, Luis Maisichell Decent was dismissed as administrator of the National Lottery, accused of fraud.
Milton Morrison, director of Intrant has been mentioned in several cases, first not to declare a property of US $ 800 thousand dollars in Miami.
Marranzini also accused him of mishandling when he was an administrator in Edesur.
