The main defendant in the Antipulpo case said that if the judge looks for a single piece of evidence that shows that he benefited from the bakeries, he admits his guilt.
It will be within 15 days when the 48 defendants in the Antipulpo case will know who will be sent to trial to answer for the accusations of corruption made by the Public Ministry.
This is how the judge decided yesterday Deiby Timoteo Peguero of the seventh investigative court, at the conclusion of the preliminary trial of the case, and set for next February 7 the reading of the ruling that will be issued, after assessing the accusation of the prosecuting body, and determining whether the evidence that supports it has merit to Submission to trial.
Alexis Take the floor
For the first time after 8 months and 8 days after the start of the preliminary, Alexis Medina Sánchez took the floor and, standing in front of the judge, pleaded not guilty to all the accusations made by the MP.
He denied that he started his commercial activity with the arrival of his brother Danilo Medina to the presidency, nor that he has used his influence to enrich himself.
“I think that what we have managed to achieve in our trajectory has been based on a lot of work,” he said.
He said that at the age of 19 he had already gone through everything in the commercial sector of the country in terms of import and export, and he was the founder and came to make many companies known, “we were already cargo operators of two area companies called Yetpack (Courrir) throughout the Dominican territory”.
Likewise, he said that he never used a penny from state institutions to finance campaigns, and that political movements such as “Tornado Fuerzas Vivas” and others were always supported by the external sector.
The letters that appear in the indictment are letters requesting student aid, jobs for a nurse, a dentist, nails for crashed motorists; operations. Everyone who knocked on my door that I saw had a need, I got it and gave it to them.