SANTO DOMINGO.- The National Convergence against Social Security Theft and the Primero Justicia Foundation filed a complaint today with the Attorney General’s Office against the director of the Government Office of Information and Communication Technologies (Ogtic), Edgar Batista, the businessman Jhonny Morales and Lowell Fernández, for their alleged involvement in the embezzlement against the ARS Senasa.
According to the complaint, Jhonny Morales would have received more than 95 million pesos by issuing invoices for fictitious services, as part of a money laundering scheme.
Meanwhile, Edgar Batista is accused of being responsible for the mechanism of alteration of computer systems during his management as IT manager of Senasa, which would have facilitated the theft of funds.
Likewise, Lowell Fernández was identified as a representative of the Farmacard company, an entity that, according to the complainants, was used to steal and launder more than 2.3 billion pesos linked to the fraud.
The complainant organizations warned that they face strong pressure to exclude from the process businessmen and political figures who would have been direct beneficiaries of the criminal network.
Likewise, they asked the Attorney General’s Office to investigate the Superintendent of Banks, Rafael Fernández, for money laundering, considering it “inexplicable” that a laundering operation of more than 43,000 million pesos had occurred through the national financial system without the regulatory body acting in a timely manner.
“It is impossible that an operation of this magnitude could be carried out using banking channels without the Superintendency of Banks reacting, a suspicion that is aggravated when one of those involved is the brother of the superintendent,” said Surun Hernández.
