The lawyers of the Army major general, Adán Cáceres Silvestre, involved in the Coral and Coral 5G corruption cases, requested the First Collegiate Court of the National District to reject the request of the Public Ministry, alleging that the criminal responsibility of their client has not been proven, and that his acquittal be declared.
The defense presented its conclusions in favor of Cáceres Silvestre and asked the judges to lift any measure of personal coercion that weighs on the accused. Likewise, they asked to reject the confiscation request made by the Public Ministry and order the immediate return of all assets owned by Adán Benoni Cáceres Silvestre kidnapped during the raids of this process.
In addition, they requested that the court order the lifting of the immobilized oppositions and the actual coercive measures issued against the major general’s assets.
In relation to the civil aspect, the defense requested that the complaint with constitution as a civil plaintiff of the Dominican State, presented through the Office of the State Recovery Team on February 18, 2022, be rejected in its entirety, as well as the compensation requested in the Document of Concretion of Civil Claims of June 1, 2022, alleging that they are inadmissible, unfounded and lacking a factual basis, since the non-compliance has been proven. commission of the accused acts.
The defense emphasized that the Public Ministry did not present evidence that compromises the criminal responsibility of Cáceres Silvestre in the alleged corruption network of the Presidential Security Corps (Cusep), while he directed it between 2012 and 2020.
Finally, they requested that the court order the State and the complaining party to pay the procedural costs in favor of the concluding lawyers: Cristian Alberto Martínez, Romer Jiménez, Jesús Ramos and Francisco Álvarez Aquino, after two days of presentation by the defense.
After listening to the defendant’s lawyers, the judges postponed the process to hear the conclusions of the defenders of other defendants in the Coral and Coral 5G case.
Motion for conviction from the Public Ministry in the Coral and Coral 5G case.
Last week, the Public Ministry, headed by the head of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca), Mirna Ortiz, requested sentences ranging from five to 20 years in prison for those involved, claiming to have demonstrated their criminal responsibility.
Among the main perpetrators, the Public Ministry requested 20 years in prison for Adán Cáceres Silvestre, Juan Carlos Torres Robiou, Julio Camilo de los Santos Viola, Boanerges Reyes Bautista, Franklin Antonio Mata Flores and Rafael Núñez de Aza, in addition to the payment of a fine equivalent to 400 minimum wages.
Likewise, he requested 15 years in prison for Rossy Guzmán Sánchez, Kelman Santana Martínez and Pedro Roberto Castillo Nolasco, with a fine of 300 minimum wages. For other defendants, including Yehudy Blandesmil Guzmán Alcántara, Tanner Antonio Flete Guzmán, José Manuel Rosario Pirón, among others, he requested 10 years in prison and fines equivalent to 200 minimum wages.
For Esmeralda Ortega Polanco and Alejandro José Montero Cruz, the Public Ministry requested 10 years in prison; while for Carlos Augusto Lantigua Cruz and Miguel Ventura, five years in prison and a fine of RD$500,000. In the case of Army Major Raúl Alejandro Girón Jiménez, he requested five years in prison, including the time of house arrest, suspension of the sentence under certain rules and a fine of 200 minimum wages.
In addition, the Public Ministry requested the confiscation of 214 properties, 86 high-displacement vehicles, more than RD$28 million and US$55 thousand in cash, generating income of more than RD$86 million in favor of the Dominican State. He also requested the closure and dissolution of the Vida Eterna Baptist Church, sanctions on related companies and fines of up to RD$10 million on other entities.
The Public Ministry accuses a structure made up of police and military, headed by Adán Cáceres Silvestre, which operated between 2012 and 2020 diverting more than RD$4.5 million of public funds from the Presidential Security Corps (Cusep), the Tourist Security Corps (Cestur), and the National Council for Children and Adolescents (Conani), to the detriment of the Dominican State.
