The Assistant Attorney Wilson Camacho stressed the Advance of the process for administrative corruption carried out by the Public Ministry against the major general Adam Cáceres Silvestre and the other accused of the Coral and Coral 5G cases.
The head of the Office of the Special Prosecutor for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (PEPCA) expressed: “The Public Prosecutor’s Office has presented all the facts of the accusation and we have begun with the presentation of the legal qualification, of which we present the justification.”
“We have agreed on the accusation, on page 806, and next Tuesday the 27th we will be continuing with the presentation of the rest of the legal qualification and we will present our means of proof,” said the deputy prosecutor to journalists who approached him on his way out of the Palace of Justice of the New City.
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Public Ministry continues with its case
Judge Yanibet Rivas, of the Sixth Investigative Court of the National District, continued hearing this Monday the accusation of the Public Ministry in the preliminary hearing of the case, held for space issues in the room of the First Collegiate Court of the National District.
At the hearing, Camacho led the representation of the Public Ministry together with prosecutors Miguel Collado, Jonathan Pérez, Arolin Lemus and Marinel Brea.
With the Coral and Coral 5G operations that involve those accused of administrative corruption, the Public Ministry filed charges for this crime against 48 people, 30 individuals and 18 legal entities, accused of defrauding the Dominican State with more than 4,000 million pesos.
The network of corruption operated in the Presidential Security Corps (Cusep), the Specialized Tourist Security Corps (Cestur) and the National Council for Children and Adolescents (Conani).
In Operation Coral 5G, derived from Operation Coral, Generals Juan Carlos Torres Robiou (FARD), Boanerges Reyes Batista (ARD) and Julio Camilo de los Santos Viola (FARD) were arrested, as well as the ARD ship captain, Franklin Mata Flores, and José Manuel Rosario Pirón.
Carlos Lantigua, Alfredo Pichardo, Erasmo Roger Pérez, Jehohanan Lucía Rodríguez, Yehudy Blandesmil Guzmán and Esmeralda Ortega Polanco are also implicated in the case.
Among those accused of Operation Coral are Major General Adán Cáceres Silvestre, Rossy Guzmán Sánchez (La Pastora), police corporal Tanner Antonio Flete Guzmán (son of the nun), police colonel Rafael Núñez de Aza and Army sergeant Alejandro Jose Montero Cruz.
