The General Directorate of Purchases and Public Contracts (DGCP) today called for a prompt justice that contributes to strengthening of the fight against corruptionand announced that it is willing to collaborate with all the information required by the Public Ministry in the investigation of the second version of the Senasa case.
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The general director of the institution, Carlos Pimentel, recognized that the Public Ministry is fulfilling its role in the fight against administrative corruption and expressed his hope that the judges also fulfill theirs.
He pointed out that the index of transparency It does not measure the Government, but the Dominican State, because in the fight against corruption all powers have responsibilities.
“We have a pending task, which is the response times of the Judiciary. We cannot continue having cases in which the files turn yellow with arguments of postponement, because someone got the flu or because a lawyer could not go. This whole mechanism of preventing the process from moving forward and then claiming termination of the criminal process must be overcome,” Pimentel pointed out.
He added that his biggest challenge at this moment it is streamline processesbecause he Judiciary It does not provide that the judges who hear these cases dedicate themselves exclusively to themestablish clear provisions and firm rules, so that there are no postponements for unjustified reasons.
He criticized that the case of Intrant was postponed on the grounds that one of the lawyers was ill.
“There we have a very clear issue. The Public Ministry is charging and persecutingbut we still have no convictions. So, The Judiciary must also follow this path of improvement and reformso that the Dominican State can begin to travel the path of reducing impunity and satisfying citizens,” he stated.
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Interviewed by journalists Edith Febles and Amelia Deschamps on the program El Día, which is broadcast on Telesistema, channel 11, the official called on citizens to be empowered by the policy of fighting corruption.
He highlighted that the only countries in the region that have increased positively in the corruption perception index have been the Dominican Republic and Guyana, while the others have remained the same or have fallen back.
“Lowering four or five points is easy; going up one or two is a titanic task,” he said.
He argued that In the Dominican Republic, the population perceives that there is strong justice that only reaches the most dispossessedand which is more timid and slow for those who have accumulated great wealth through public affairs.
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“We have not managed to overturn that perception. We come from years in which nothing was submitted, no judicial proceedings were taken or no investigation was made, because we came from a regime of complicity. The PGR was part of a capture and corruption scheme that deepened levels of impunity that degenerated into complicity,” he added.
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Transparent operation
The head of the General Directorate of Public Purchasing and Contracting (DGCP), Carlos Pimentel, announced that The institution implemented a tool that will make the operations of State service providers transparent..
He said that the procurement processes carried out in the National Health Insurance (Senasa) did not go through the contracting system.
