After the change in the prison of a defendant in the Medusa Case, he regrets that the judges continue without assuming the magnitude of the corruption cases presented by the Public Ministry
SANTO DOMINGO (Dominican Republic).- The court attorney Mirna Ortiz deplored the decision of Third Investigating Court of the National District that varies the preventive detention of a defendant for administrative corruption of the case jellyfish and regretted that the judges continue without assuming the magnitude of the corruption cases prosecuted by the Public Ministry.
Ortiz, Litigation Coordinator of the Specialized Prosecutor for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca), regretted that “The courts continue to give decisions under orthodox thinking.”
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When asked by journalists about Judge Amauri Martínez’s decision to order the cessation of preventive detention in favor of the accused Alfredo Alexander Solano, former administrative deputy director of the Public Ministry, the litigant indicated that “the courts refuse to examine the the Law according to the new tendencies, to attend to the reality that the courts were not prepared for cases of this magnitude, nor is the legislation adapted to cases of this magnitude”.
He argued that in the face of the corruption cases that the Public Ministry is currently dealing with as a result of its multiple operations against corruption and impunity, it is necessary, without delay and in accordance with what has already been established by the Constitutional Court, “to extend the deadlines for the
number of defendants, the amount of evidence, and the complexity of obtaining such evidence; things that had not been seen with other processes, at least in the history of Dominican criminal justice.”
“So, the judges refuse to understand that reality and, in this case, the judge did not even listen to the call and the cry of a victim who told the Dominican justice through a complaint that her life felt threatened with the freedom of the citizen Solano, and that person is nothing more and nothing less than the ex-wife of the accused”, he added.
By varying the preventive detention of the defendant Solano, Judge Martínez ordered him to be placed under house arrest, the payment of an economic guarantee in the amount of RD$10 million through an insurance company and an impediment to leave the country.
The Pepca litigator highlighted that it was explained to the court that Solano’s ex-wife filed a complaint on January 26 for feeling persistently violated through phone calls
threats, made by the defendant from jail, from where he even warned him, “that jail was not eternal, that is, setting a date and time so that when they left they could resolve conflicts and couple situations.”
“The judge understood that this was not a sufficient reason to keep him in prison either and that this was a different case from the case we were hearing,” Ortiz deplored.
For reasons of space, the hearing was held in the Ninth Criminal Chamber of the National District, where the Public Ministry, in addition to Ortiz, was represented by prosecutors Miguel Collado and Emmanuel Ramírez.
Ortiz recalled that the Public Ministry remains confident in the process despite the court’s decision. “The Public Ministry continues as always on the foot of the battle and we will continue presenting the accusation where they will all be unequivocally sent to trial,” he stressed.
In addition to Alfredo Alexander Solano, the process is also ongoing against former Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez Sánchez, who is accused of directing the network of administrative corruption when he was in charge of the Public Ministry from 2016 to 2020.
Also, against the former director of Information and Communication Technology of the Public Ministry, Javier Alejandro Forteza Ibarra, and the former administrative director, Jonathan Joel Rodríguez Imbert.
Similarly, against Jenny Marte Peña, former Project Manager; the former administrative deputy director Altagracia Guillén Calzado, as well as Rafael Antonio Mercedes Marte, former director of Accounting, and former advisor Miguel José Moya.
The defendants in the Medusa Case face criminal charges for collusion of officials, prevarication, association of criminals and fraud against the State. Also, for bribery, crimes and high-tech offenses and money laundering.
In this case, the Public Ministry presented an accusation through a voluminous file of 12,274 pages, accompanied by more than 3,500 pieces of evidence, including more than 400 witnesses. The accusation was filed against 41 individuals and 22 companies.
