SANTO DOMINGO.- Judge Deiby Timoteo Peguero, of the Seventh Investigating Court of the National District, ratified this afternoon the coercive measure of 18 months of preventive detention against Alexis Medina and two others involved in the Antipulpo case.
The others involved to whom the judge maintains the measure of coercion without variation are José Dolores Santana and Wascal Bernabé Méndez.
Next review was set for August 29.
In the case of Alexis Medina, the judge considered that the documentation presented in the request for a variation of the coercion measure is not sufficient, while the defense of José Dolores Santana and Wascal Vernavel Méndez did not present budgets.
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On his way out of court, Alexis Medina said that he hoped that justice, in the end, would see the evidence and determine that he was innocent of the accusations against him.
The accused are serving preventive detention at the Najayo Hombres Correction and Rehabilitation Center, in San Cristóbal, as is Fernando Rosa, who directed the Patrimonial Fund of Reformed Companies (Fonper).
The Public Ministry accuses Juan Alexis Medina Sánchez of being part of a corruption network that defrauded the State of billions of pesos from taxpayers, taking advantage of his condition as the brother of the then President of the Republic, Danilo Medina Sánchez.
Juan Alexis Medina Sánchez and 27 other individuals and 21 companies are accused in an extensive file for corruption and money laundering, of about 3,500 pages.
Carmen Magalys Medina Sánchez is also involved in the case, who also took advantage of her family ties and her position as vice president of Fonper to commit crimes within the corruption network of which her brother Juan Alexis Medina Sánchez served as operational manager.
Also, Francisco Pagán Rodríguez, former director general of the Office of Supervising Engineers of State Works (Oisoe), and Aquiles Alejandro Christopher, former inspector of that state unit.
The accusation of the case presented by the General Directorate of Persecution of the Public Ministry and Pepca also includes Julián Suriel Suazo, Lorenzo Wilfredo (Freddy) Hidalgo Núñez, who was Minister of Public Health; the former Comptroller General Rafael Antonio Germosén and Domingo Antonio Santiago Muñoz.
The Public Ministry also filed charges against the legal entities General Supply Corporation SRL, Domedical Supply SRL, Fuel América Inc. Dominicana SRL, and Globus Electrical SRL, among others.
