The businessman Ramón Emilio Jiménez Collie (Mimilo) delivered 3,957 million pesos in cash in bags and travel suitcases as a contribution to the campaign of Gonzalo Castillo, as described in the search warrant for Operation Squid, through which they were arrested three ex-ministers and other defendants.
In said operation, former ministers Gonzalo Castillo, Donald Guerrero and José Ramón Peralta were arrested last Saturday, accused of constituting the largest laundering operation to the detriment of the Dominican State, according to the Special Prosecutor’s Office for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption. (Pepca).
Refers to the judicial order that Gonzalo’s campaign officially began on July 31, 2019, when he presented his aspirations to become a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic for the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), until July 6. October when his party’s primaries were held and that at that time he received millions in sums from the Dominican State, from illicit funds and that, moreover, it was a typical action of illicit campaign financing and money laundering, since the funds did not were reported in the financing report made by the PLD.
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The Public Ministry establishes that with the interrogation of Mimilo and José Arturo Ureña, the body prosecuting the crime will demonstrate before the court how the structure operated, at its three levels.
With the latter questioned, PEPCA will try to prove that the corruption structure was led by the investigated José Ramón Peralta and Donald Guerrero, who used Bolívar Antonio Ventura’s companies to divert hundreds of millions of pesos from public assets, for the purpose of finance the political campaign of the investigated Castillo.
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In this case, the name of the former director of the Office of State Works Supervisory Engineers, Francisco Pagán, also comes to light, with whom the MP will try to prove how said corruption structure was orchestrated and how it operated, as well as the mechanism used to hand over part of the money.
In the same way, Pepca will provide the testimony of Frixo Medina Arvelo to prove how the structure that operated from the Ministry of Finance worked to receive illegal payments from the owners of sports benches, lottery and grocery stores that had slot machines.
It also has the testimony of José Melchor González Calderón, with which he seeks to prove how the illegal payments to the structure worked to receive the illegal charges made by the owners of sports benches, lottery and grocery stores that had slot machines.
He explains that the network made illegal charges to the owners of sports and lottery benches and grocery stores that had slot machines, collecting more than thirty million pesos in cash in one month.
The network of corruption allegedly distracted taxpayers more than 19 billion pesos and affected various institutions.
Operation Squid
Operation Squid was launched on Saturday night as a result of a complex investigation carried out by the Special Prosecutor for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca). It included some 40 searches and so far there are 19 people under arrest who will be brought before the courts in the next few hours.
