SANTO DOMINGO. – «Everyone will know before which mirror they will put their face so that history reflects it. They will not beat us out of exhaustion and they will not diminish our commitment to reduce impunity. We keep working!”.
This is how the assistant attorney Wilson Camacho expressed himself on his Twitter account after a court The measure of coercion will vary from prison to house arrest and impediment to the exit of the former administrator of the National Lottery, Luis Dicent, who heads the Operation 13 network.
“In relation to the cessation of preventive detention, it is evident that the Judiciary has decided to apply the reasonable limit of preventive detention irrationally,” said Camacho, who once again questioned this type of decision by the courts in corruption cases.
The magistrate added that “in this case it is curious and strongly draws attention that the postponements are not attributed to the Public Ministry and cannot be attributed to it, because it is impossible to impute them, because there is no evidence that the delays were on the part of the Public ministry; then, this court resorts to blaming the Judiciary itself for the delays in the process to end the pretrial detention. This only happens solely and exclusively in cases of corruption.”
Yesterday the presiding judge of the Second Collegiate Court, Claribel Nivar, changed the coercive measure of preventive detention imposed on Dicent in the initial stage of the judicial process called Operation 13, for house arrest and impediment to leave the country.
Prior to the judge’s decision, six of the 10 defendants in the case admitted the facts of committing irregularities in a National Lottery draw held on May 1, 2021, which caused a million-dollar loss to benches.
In this direction, Camacho indicated that the solidity of the accusation presented by the Public Ministry caused six of the 10 defendants in the National Lottery fraud dismantled in Operation 13 to plead guilty at the hearing this Thursday before the Second Collegiate Court of the National District.
“Today two things have happened that need to be referred to in this case of Operation 13. The first thing that happened today is that, out of 10 defendants who were present at this trial, six pleaded guilty.” said the head of the Office of the Special Prosecutor for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca), when responding to the press upon leaving the Ciudad Nueva Palace of Justice.
“This is tangible evidence of the strength of the prosecution of the Public Ministry, this is a first issue that must be clear and to which we must refer,” said Camacho, who headed the team of prosecutors made up of Mirna Ortiz, court attorney and Pepca Litigation Coordinator, Andrés Mena, Yudelka Holguín Liz and Alexis Piña.
