Santo Domingo.- In hearing the request for a measure of coercion to those involved in the Coral 5G case, more defendants were added to the row of whistleblowers and admitted their participation in the alleged network of administrative corruption.
To the list of whistleblowers, which prosecutors use to gather evidence against the other defendants, 4 accused have been added so far, as revealed by the head of the Special Prosecutor for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca).
These defendants who decided to collaborate with the prosecuting body are Colonel Miguel Ventura Pichardo and the civilian César Félix Ramos Ovalle, according to the defense of these accused.
While last Friday, First Lieutenant Jehohanan Lucía Rodríguez Jiménez, who is the ex-partner and mother of two children of Colonel Rafael Núñez de Aza, described as the financial mastermind of this alleged network of corruption in military bodies and who has been in preventive detention since A few months ago, he admitted the facts against him and decided to participate with the Public Ministry.
These defendants who decided to collaborate with the prosecuting body have already begun to see the fruits of their collaboration, since the Public Ministry requested a favorable variation of the measure of coercion from preventive detention to house arrest. The remaining 8 are asked for preventive detention.
The judge of the Permanent Attention Office of the National District, Kenya Romero, reserved for this Tuesday at 5:00 in the afternoon the ruling on the measure of coercion of 12 defendants in the alleged Coral 5G corruption case.
The others implicated in the case are Generals Carlos Torres Rubiou, former director of the Specialized Tourist Security Corps (Cestur), Julio Camilo de los Santos Viola and Boanerges Reyes Batista, deputy heads of the Presidential Security Corps (Cusep).
The other soldiers and a civilian are Captain Franklin Antonio Mata Flores, Paratrooper Colonel Carlos Augusto Lantigua Cruz, Pilot Colonel Yehudy Blandesmil Guzmán Alcántara, Lieutenant Colonel Erasmo Roger Pérez Núñez, Lieutenant Colonel Kelman Santana Martínez, Major José Manuel Rosario Pirón and Esmeralda Ortega.
