Pancho Alvarez highlights the “quantity and quality” of the MP tests. Likewise, he alerts Congress about the contribution of Gómez Díaz to political campaigns, and asks MP to investigate
After the Pandora’s box you opened Raul Alejandro Gironaccused in the Coral caseby publicly revealing how the web of corruption worked under the command of generals and colonels, every day there are more defendants in similar processes who opt for agreements with the Public Ministry, in exchange for flexible sentences.
The most recent, and which has put the lid on the knob, is that of the former director of the State Works Supervising Office of Engineers (OISOE) Francisco Pagán, defendant in the Antipulpo case, who openly admitted having received RD$50 million from the businessman Gómez Díaz, for the campaign; and $10 million that Kelvin Santiago gave him, “at a time of economic crisis” that he had.
However, the former official assures that he did not benefit from the business of Alexis, the main defendant in the Antipulpo case.
To what extent do the agreements and statements of Pagán and another defendant compromise criminal responsibility and would they lead to a conviction for Alexis?
In the lawyer’s opinion Francisco (Pancho) AlvarezEven though from public perception the statements by Pagán and others who have reached agreements are seen by the public as proof of Alexis’s guilt, by themselves they would not be enough to convict him.
He said that for these agreements to become a determining factor when the judge issues a conviction against the brother of former President Danilo Medina, they necessarily have to be corroborated by other evidence.
However, it considered “reasonable” that Alexis also contemplates reaching an agreement among his strategies “by pleading guilty and reducing the sentence that would correspond to him in a substantive trial, “given the quantity and quality of the evidence provided by the Public Ministry in against him”.
About Gomez Diaz
The criminal lawyer says that the mention of the businessman Gómez Díaz as a campaign financier in the case anti octopusalerts again about the project of the Electoral Law that is in Congress, above all, the ceilings of contributions and expenses in the campaigns, which are mocked with maneuvers to write several checks, as the former director of the OISOE said, he did the businessman.
“I understand that this revelation obliges the Public Ministry to carry out an investigation into the relations between Mr. Gómez Díaz and his companies with the Dominican State,” Pancho Alvarez specified in statements for Hoy.
Anti-octopus, Medusa and Odebrecht
According to the MP, in the Antipulpo case, the political movement called “Tornado Fuerzas Vivas” was used in a triangulation to divert funds obtained illegally to political power.
The same was done in the Medusa case, in which the MP attributes to ex-prosecutor Jean Alain Rodríguez diverting public funds for a political movement called “Renewal”.
In the Odechret case, it is recalled that the defendant Temístocles Montás admitted to having received RS$33 million for a political campaign.
