Ángeld Donald Guerrero Ortiz, former Minister of Finance (2016-2020), defended this Friday the charges charged by the Public Ministry, as the main accused of the group of former officials who would have diverted from the State more than RD $ 19,000 million through irregular payments for expropriations of land and bribes.
During his material defense Before magistrate Altagracia Rodríguez, of the Fourth Court of the National District, Guerrero Ortiz denounced that the report against him, issued by the Comptroller General of the Republic in 2021, was carried out in Franca violation of due process Administrative, since the institution obvious the guarantee of the right of defense that corresponds to it.
“What Mr. Donal Guerrero has made has been to file a complaint before the Court regarding the report of the Comptroller General of the Republic of the year 2021, which was issued in frank violation of due administrative process, since the Comptroller General of the Republic ignored the guarantee of the right of defense corresponding to Mr. Guerrero,” he said Mario Eduardo Aguilerathe former official’s lawyer to the members of the press that cover the source of the Palace of Justice of Ciudad Nueva.
He explained: «That report speaks of alleged irregularities in the payment of public debt. But, of course, it is very easy to talk about irregularities when they did not allow us to clarify all that.
Similarly, the defender of Donald Guerrero said that they will ask the court to the total exclusion of that report, while indicating that this “was ventilated to the press and that has given rise to a series of procedural proceedings that have been made in the present case.”
“Now we are going to exercise our means of defense at the time the court has arranged and we will denounce all this type of violations,” Eduardo Aguilera said.
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Others accused
In addition to Guerrero, Gonzalo Castillo Terrero, José Ramón Peralta, Daniel Omar Caamaño, former General Counter of the Republic; Luis Miguel Piccirillo, former director of the State Sugar Council (CEA); Claudio Silver Peña, former director of National Cadastre; as well as Óscar Chalas Guerrero and Julián Omar Fernández, former director of casinos and gambling.
