Santo Domingo.- The Public Ministry reported yesterday Tuesday before the First Collegiate Court of the National District that in the next hearing the presentation of the conclusions in the judicial process against the accused in the case of administrative corruption of the Coral and Coral 5G operationsthrough which there would have been embezzlement from the State Dominican with more than RD$4,500 million.
The notification was made by prosecutors Jonathan Elías Pérez, Miguel Collado and Arolin Lemos, who represent the prosecuting body in the file that has the Army major general as the main defendant. Adán Benoni Cáceres Silvestreformer head of Presidential Security Corps (Cusep).
Judges Esmirna Giselle Méndez, Tania Yunes and Jissel Naranjo, who make up the First Collegiate Court of the National District, set the next hearing for Tuesday, January 20, starting at 9:00 in the morning, when the Public Ministry will begin the conclusive phase of the trial.
By order of the court, the prosecuting body will have three hearings to present their conclusions, while the defense bars will receive electronically the corresponding calendar for the presentation of their final arguments.
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During the hearing held yesterday, Tuesday, the defendants José Manuel Rosario Pirón, Epifanio Peña and Carlos Lantigua exercised their material defense, raising to seven the number of defendants who have made use of this procedural right.
In previous sessions, they presented their defenses Colonel Rafael Núñez de Azahe Brigadier General Boanerges Reyes Batista and the police corporal Tanner Flete Guzmánthis last son of Rossy Guzmán Sánchez, known as “La Pastora”another of the main defendants in the case.
The Public Ministry, through the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca), maintains that the military and police formed a corruption network that operated to defraud the Dominican State of more than RD$4.5 billion, a structure that was dismantled through operations Coral and Coral 5G.
