Julián Suriel Suazo also accepted Abbreviated Penalty established in art. 363 of the CPP for punishable acts that carry a maximum penalty equal to or less than 20 years in prison
Four of the defendants in the case anti octopus reached an agreement yesterday with the Public ministryin exchange for shortening the long and tortuous path of a criminal process that could lead them to a substantive trial and a subsequent conviction.
Francisco Pagan, former director of the Office of State Works Supervising Engineers (OISOE); Domingo Antonio Santiago, Julián Esteban Suriel and Lewin Ariel Castillo, admitted their guilt as part of the corporate framework created by Alexis Medina Sanchez to cheat the Dominican state.
In exchange for his confession, and for delivering more than RD$200 million in movable and immovable property, and cash, the MP will dispense with the public action against him, and will apply indistinctly among them, Opportunity Criterion, conditional suspension of the procedure and abbreviated criminal procedures, in accordance with the provisions of article 34 of the Criminal procedure code (CPP).
After reiterating the commission of the acts with which he was charged, and denying having any kind of connection with Alexis, Pagán apologized to the country before the judge of the seventh trial court.
The former official, who negotiated with the MP in exchange for an abbreviated criminal trial and a five-year sentence, the MP attributes to him having paid a million-dollar debt with cash just six months after taking office at the OISOE, resources allegedly obtained through bribery; of adulterating documents to help Alexis’s Domedical Supply SRL company be paid an administrative debt in the amount of RD$922.1 million, once former President Danilo Medina lost the elections.
The Abbreviated Criminal Procedure can be Full or Partial, according to articles 363 and 368 of the CPP. It is Plenary when the punishable act has a maximum penalty equal to or less than 20 years in prison, or a non-custodial sanction.
