The head of the Prosecution Directorate of the Public Ministry, Wilson Camachoassured yesterday that they work tirelessly to subject the courts to “everyone who has stolen money from the State” through the National Health Insurance (Senasa). In this sense, he guaranteed that in “the shortest possible time“will release version 2.0 of that corruption case.
Camacho spoke after leaving the hearing in which the appeal that the former director of Senasa, Santiago Hazim Albainyand six other defendants, to the decision that sent them to preventive detention for 18 months.
They postpone appeal
The Second Room of the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeal of the National District postponed the hearing of the appeal for the February 3because the accused Ada Ledesma Ubiera He appeared without lawyers.
“We are working at full speed for, in the shortest possible timehave the following version of Operation Cobra (as the ARS fraud investigation has been called),” Camacho said.
He was emphatic in stating that everyone who ha stolen money of Senasa “will be sitting in the dock.”
In addition to Hazim Albainythey appealed the decision of the judge of the Permanent Attention Office of the National District that sent them to jail Gustavo Enrique Messina Cruzformer financial manager of Senasa; Germán Rafael Robles Quiñones, former legal consultant, and Francisco Iván Minaya Pérez, former manager of Health Services.
Also the suppliers of the Senasa Rafael Luis Martínez Hazim, Ramón Alan Speakler Mateo and Ada Ledesma Ubiera. The six men are imprisoned in the Las Parras prison, in the San Antonio de Guerra municipality, in the Santo Domingo province, while Ledesma is serving the measure in Najayo Womenin San Cristobal.
The three defendants who were ordered house arrest They did not appeal the ruling of the Permanent Attention judge. These are: Cinty Acosta SenciónHeidy Mariela Medina and Eduardo Read Estrella, who collaborate in the investigation of the accusing body.
He denies letting himself be pressured
Camacho denied that they allow themselves to be pressured on how to carry out the corruption investigations.
“I believe that, in this country, nobody have doubts that we we act according to our conscience, nobody“, indicated the director of Persecution.
Camacho thus responded to the complaint of Miguel Surún Hernandezrepresentative of Convergence against Social Security Theft (Converss), that “there are pressurethere is extortion” so that there is impunity in the case Senasawhich involves a scam against that ARS of almost 16 billion pesos. “The threat is that anyone who does not obey by eliminating, archiving, extinguishing, avoiding, guaranteeing impunity for Senasa’s embezzlement will not be ratified,” said Surún Hernández. According to the prosecution body, the fraud had been developing from August 2020 to August 2025, throughout the management of Hazim Albainy.
Miguel Valerio, Santiago Hazim’s lawyer, affirmed yesterday that the decision of the judge of the Permanent Attention Office, Rigoberto Sena, to send the accused to prison “has many vices” because, as he said, it is based on the Bible and texts from literature.
He hopes that the criticism of the Ethics Council of the Judiciary of the judgments issued by the magistrate will have consequences in the Second Chamber of the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeal of the National District.
In December, Valerio declared that Hazim burst into tears during the coercive measure when referring to the multiple sclerosis he suffers from.
