The Defense of Alexis Medina Sánchez assured today that the agreements reached yesterday by four defendants in the Antipulpo case, who admitted their participation in the corruption network, will not affect his client and described the accusation of the Specialized Prosecutor for the Persecution of Corruption as gossip Administrative (Pepca).
For the lawyer Carlos Salcedo, representative of the main defendant in the Antipulpo case, the accusation does not have a high probability of achieving a conviction, since many of the criminal types that he is accused of are nothing more than administrative offenses, such as influence peddling, illicit financing campaign.
He pointed out that the Public ministry presented a surprise accusation in the preparatory phase because there was an element of the investigation that the defense was aware of, which constitutes a surprise that violates cardinal principles.
“None of these agreements has an impact on the personal conduct attributed to Juan Alexis Medina, we have already requested the annulment for all the defects contained in the accusation and the criminal charges have not been precisely formulated. The Public Ministry hid things, hid classifications and accused conducts, which renders the accusation null and void, which leaves the accusation without action,” argued the criminal lawyer.
The Antipulpo case agreements
La Pepca submitted yesterday to the Seventh Investigating Court of the National District four agreements, two of them consisting of an opportunity criterion and an abbreviated penalty, through which they admit the imputed facts in order to request a lesser penalty than the corresponding .
The MP asked the Seventh Investigating Court yesterday to sentence Francisco Pagán, former director of OISOE, to five years in prison, with two suspended.
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The head of Pepca, Wilson Camacho, and Mirna Ortiz, litigation coordinator, also asked Judge Deybi Timoteo Peguero to sentence Juan Esteban Suriel Suazo to five years in prison, two in prison and three suspended, after reaching an agreement with the accused.
While for Lewin Ariel Castillo, they requested two years of suspended prison, as part of the abbreviated criminal trial in the preliminary stage of the well-known case.
When taking a turn in court, Pagán declared that he had illegally obtained real estate, vehicles and cash. However, the former official during the government of Danilo Medina ruled out any link with Alexis Medina Sánchez, the main person involved in the Antipulpo case.
Pagán, in his admission of the facts, also declared that the businessman Juan Ramón Gómez Díaz came to his office with six checks for RD$25 million, which would be used in the political campaign of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD). However, he maintained that he did not accept that contribution, assuring that he made copies of the checks, asking Gómez Díaz to “sign on the back receiving the money from him.” In total, the checks would total some RD$150 million.
Deputy Attorney General Wilson Camacho stressed this Monday that with the agreements between the Public Ministry and four of those accused of administrative corruption in the Anti-Pulpo Case, the State will recover more than 200 million pesos in assets.
The deputy prosecutor, who headed the team that represented the Public Prosecutor’s Office in the preliminary hearing before the Seventh Investigating Court of the National District, stated that at the time of the reply he was going to explain or remind the court how this network of corruption in the Oisoe.
Process
The process for administrative corruption is being followed against Juan Alexis Medina Sánchez and Carmen Magalys Medina Sánchez, former vice president of the Fund of the Patrimonial Fund for Reformed Companies (Fonper), both brothers of former president Danilo Medina Sánchez.
