The minister of the presidency, Lisandro Macarrulla rejection today refer to the conflict generated between the adviser on penitentiary matters of the Executive Branch, Robert Santanaand the Attorney General of the Republic, Miriam German Britofor him I do not use of the new prison Las Parras for his son’s involvement in the construction of the building and the subsequent audit to which the project was submitted.
When questioned about the situation on several occasions, by the radio program teaml «Morning sun», broadcast by the station Zol 106.5 fm The official limited himself to saying “There is a company linked to my family in a legal case with that and that is why I have nothing to say until the process is completed.”
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It is recalled that the adviser to the Executive Branch, Roberto Santana, recently declared that the new “Las Parras” prison facility could be used to improve the condition of vulnerability in which those incarcerated in La Victoria prison find themselves, but that this has not been done because government officials and the Attorney General’s Office have not allowed it.
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Also, it is recalled that Minister Macarrulla came out in defense of the Mac Construcciones company, owned by his son, at a time when it was alleged that the construction of the La Nueva Victoria prison, during the management of the former prosecutor, Jean Alain Rodríguez, had been overpriced.
Macarrulla argued that these accusations responded to a campaign against him when the case of fraud and embezzlement from the Dominican State revealed in the Operation Medusa.
The former Attorney General of the Republic, Jean Alain Rodríguez, is in preventive detention in the prison of the new prison model Najayo Hombres, in San Cristóbal, for his involvement by the Public Ministry in Operation Medusa.