HOLY DOMINGO.–The Attorney General of the Republic, Yeni Berenice Reynosoreiterated this Tuesday that the Public Ministry (MP) has not granted criteria of opportunity nor has it entered into plea agreements with any of the 10 defendants in the so-called Operation Cobra, related to acts of administrative corruption in the National Health Insurance (SENASA).
Reynoso affirmed that prosecutors will continue seeking in the courts to apply the corresponding penalties to the serious acts committed against more than seven million members and all of Dominican society.
“There will be penalties, which must be sanctioned for the very serious acts committed against the population,” he emphasized.
The prosecutor offered these statements when approached by journalists during the inauguration of the Comprehensive Center for Access to Justice of the Public Ministry, which includes the Community Prosecutor’s Office, a Peace Court, the Comprehensive Care Unit for Gender Violence, Domestic Violence and Sexual Crimes, and a Children’s and Adolescents’ Prosecutor’s Office.
Reynoso explained that the teams of prosecutors, especially from the General Directorate of Prosecution of the MP and the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (PEPCA), continue to work tirelessly in what he calls the part 2.0 of Operation Cobrato dismantle the structure of administrative corruption that affected SENASA.
Regarding the health allegations of the accused, the prosecutor assured that there are no forensic reports that indicate that Santiago Hazim or other accused lack the conditions to face the process. “He who has health to divert State funds, has to have health to face justice,” he stressed.
Regarding the coercive measures imposed by the judge of the Eighth Investigative Court of the National District, Reynoso indicated that the three defendants with house arrest, impediment to leaving the country and payment of bail They have real estate guarantees, while the rest comply 18 months of preventive detention.
The attorney stressed that these decisions reflect the quality and strength of research.
Last Sunday, Judge Rigoberto Sena Ferreras declared complex processing the case presented by the MP and ratified the precautionary measures against the accused, among them Santiago Marcelo F. Hazim Albainy, Gustavo Enrique Messina Cruz, Germán Rafael Robles Quiñones, Francisco Iván Minaya Pérez, Rafael Luis Martínez Hazim and Ramón Alan Speakler Mateo, as well as those who were under house arrest: Cinty Acosta Sención, Heidi Mariela Pineda Perdomo and Eduardo Read Estrella.
