Despite the seriousness of the complaint, neither the Director of Prisons nor the Public Ministry they wanted to refer to the RD$7 million which according to the Government’s penitentiary adviser, Roberto Santana, is paid weekly by the person in charge of the Victory security to make life easier for inmates and visiting family members.
The colonel Robert Hernandez BasilDirector of Prisons avoids talking about the subject with trivial excuses.
That he is in a meeting with the attorney general; going to visit inspection to Najayo; that he calls you at a certain time and then does not answer, are part of his response to this reporter.
the attorney Miriam German Britoon his side, gave, on one occasion, a response subject to interpretation.
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“I have nothing to say; the person who made the complaint will know how to proceed, ”he said, despite the direct statement made by the palace official.
And it is that, according to Santana’s complaintthe person in charge of security at the La Victoria prison receives RD$7 million each week from drug trafficking with the owners of grocery stores that operate in the prison and from their families who line up to enter the facility, all of which is knowledge of the Public Ministry.
In recent days, the La Victoria penitentiary has been under scrutiny, because Santana denounced that a corruption system operates there, where only the head of security receives about seven million pesos a week as a product of illicit practices.
