The Attorney General’s Office (PGR) investigate several pharmacy chains for him embezzlement committed in the National Health Insurance (Senasa)a case that impacts more than seven million peoplemostly vulnerable population and patients with catastrophic illnesses.
According to a source linked to the investigationhe Public Ministry has low investigations to various pharmacy chainsespecially one that would have presented collections for large amounts of invoices that They did not have medical indications.
“As part of Operation Cobrawe have under investigation several pharmacy chainsespecially one that was presented for collection large volumes of invoices that they didn’t even have medication indications”, the source detailed to the newspaper The National.
Criminal scheme
The criminal investigationwhich exceeds the 500 pages of the Senasa casereveals the existence of a complex criminal scheme sustained over timewhich would have operated within the National Health Insurancethrough fraudulent practices, manipulation of administrative processes and diversion of public funds intended for the health care of millions of Dominicans.
According to the recordthe fraudulent actions were executed through mechanisms deliberately designed to appear legal. Among them are manipulated increments, intentional omissions, decisions contrary to current regulations and the coordination of internal and external actors to the institution.
The authorities maintain that these practices violated the principles of legality, transparency, integrity and good public administrationaffecting not only the state heritagebut also the citizen confidence in the social security system.
Request from the Public Ministry
He Public Ministry considered the preventive detention like the most appropriate measure of coercion in the case of Santiago Marcelo F. Hazim Albainy and others involved in the corruption network who would have benefited from National Health Insurance (Senasa)to the detriment of an institution that provides health services to millions of Dominicansespecially to the lower socioeconomic strata.
“Now they must pay for their atrocities; We are requesting that these people be imposed preventive detention, which we understand is the appropriate coercive measure for this process.“, held the early this saturday he Deputy Attorney General Wilson Camachoholder of the General Directorate of Prosecution of the Public Ministry.
The official explained that the persecuting body concluded the reading of the request for coercive measures to those arrested in the Operation Cobrain which requests preventive detention for Hazim Albainy and others involved.
