He Seventh Investigative Court of the National District authorized this Wednesday the embargo of 445 million pesos in favor of the State and against the defendants in the corruption case, in which he appears as the ringleader Juan Alexis Medina Sanchez.
The decision was made by the judge Deiby Timoteo Peguerowho also arranged to send to trial all those involved who did not reach an agreement with the Public ministry. He considered that the real coercion has the purpose of withholding the funds for the hypothetical compensation of the State as a civil actor.
Jorge López Hilario, representative of the Public Heritage Recovery Team (ERPP)assessed that, for the first time, a decision has been issued that seizes assets and economic resources to compensate the State in legal proceedings.
“For the first time in a criminal case for corruption, the judge accepted our factual theory that an economic group was formed and ordered real coercion measures to guarantee the eventual compensation agreed by the judge on the background,” López added.
Likewise, it clarified that these amounts indicated by the judge are not those that correspond to the compensation requested by the State, but rather the authorization to block the measure.
It is recalled that the State requests compensation for more than 23 billion pesos for the illegal acts in which those involved in the corruption network that defrauded the Dominican State have incurred.
In his decision, the judge admitted the Dominican State as a constituted civil party, represented by the Public Assets Recovery Team through Decree no. 22-21, recognizing his status as a victim and the power he has to intervene in the process in such condition.
The magistrate pointed out that the companies and the defendants, according to the evidence provided, operated under the control of the same person or group of people under the coordination and subordination of the main defendant in the Juan case. Alexis Medina Sánchez, with a clear common objective.
In addition to Alexis Medina Carmen Magalys Medina Sánchez, Fernando Rosa Rosa, Lorenzo Wilfredo Hidalgo Núñez, among other defendants, are included in the corruption network.
