Santo Domingo.- Judges Keila Santana, Arisleyda Méndez and Elías Santini, of the Fourth Collegiate Court of the National District, set for next Monday, February 20, the judgment of the trial against María Isabel de los Milagros Torres Castellanos, accused of being part of the network of administrative corruption named anti octopus made up of the defendant Juan Alexis Medina Sánchez and other persons.
The judges’ announcement comes after the Public Ministry concluded this Friday the presentation of its evidence in the trial against Torres Castellanos, who was sent to trial last year by decision of Judge Deiby Timoteo Peguero, of the Seventh Court of the Instruction of the National District when the Public Ministry established its relationship with the company Editorama, SA, linked to the network of corruption.
Due to health reasons, the defendant was declared unimputable, for which she is prosecuted in a special process, according to the Public Ministry in a statement.
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Leaving the hearing, which is being held behind closed doors, prosecutor Elizabeth Paredes, from the Special Prosecutor’s Office for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca), said that the Public Ministry asked the full court to impose a security measure, as well as the confiscation of an apartment and shares.
He explained that, during the trial, in which he represented the Public ministry together with Ernesto Guzmán Alberto, testimonial, expert and documentary evidence was presented against the unimputable, in order to establish his criminal responsibility.
Medina Sánchez and you share were sent to trial on February 7, also by decision of Judge Peguero.
During the process, other defendants in the Antipulpo case: Francisco Pagán, former director of the now-defunct State Works Supervisory Office (OISOE); Julián Esteban Suriel Suazo, Lewin Ariel Castillo and Domingo Antonio Santiago made agreements with the Public Ministry, which were accepted as good and valid by magistrate Peguero, and they were convicted, in addition to the fact that as a result of the agreements the State will recover more than 200 million of pesos in goods.
From Medina Sánchez, the file establishes that he created a corporate network and, using influence peddling, being the brother of the former President of the Republic, Danilo Medina Sánchez (2012-2020), carried out a series of fraudulent maneuvers, in association with officials.
He specifies that he was awarded to his name, as well as to third parties, works, goods and services of the State, operating as organized crime.
The criminal offenses incurred by the defendants include criminal association, fraud against the State, embezzlement, complicity in embezzlement, active and passive bribery, and use of false documents, as well as illicit financing of political campaigns, influence peddling, and money laundering. .
Also, coalition of officials, concussion, influence peddling and falsehood in public deed, as well as falsification and omission in the affidavit, illicit enrichment, prevarication, use of front names and front men.
