Almost ten hours were not enough for the Permanent Attention judge, Rigoberto Sena, to conclude this Thursday the knowledge of the measure of coercion against the accused in the alleged criminal structure that, according to Public Ministryoperated in the state health insurance to divert public funds, manipulate internal processes and financially benefit officials and associates.
The magistrate recessed the audience and called for this Friday at 2:00 in the afternoon, when the presentations of the defenses will continue and later the replica of the Public Ministry.
The director of Persecution, Mirna Ortiz, revealed that three accused (without revealing their names) admitted their participation and have collaborated with the Public Ministry.
“They themselves have admitted that they paid bribes to members of the state insurance, including its former director, Santiago Hazim“said Ortiz.
He said that the amount of the alleged bribes paid amounts to about 2,000 million pesos.
Ortizrepresenting the Public Ministryreported that the accusation presented this Thursday includes more than 138 documentary evidencemore than 35 testimonials and various expert evidence.
He assured that there are multiple reasons for the case to be declared complex. “One of them is the plurality of victims. “We are talking about health insurance that covers more than seven million Dominicans,” he noted.
Defense of Hazim question agreements
On his side, the lawyer Miguel Valeriorepresentative of Santiago Hazimstated that in the audience “agreements were made that we do not consider appropriate because they were people who, in any case, were co-authors or perpetrators of bribery.”
Valerio announced that this Friday will dismantle the credibility of one of the main witnesses of the Prosecutor’s Office.
“We are going to show that the star witness He is a person dedicated to corruption, forgiven in another recordand that should be discussed,” he said.
“There are no relatives of Hazim“
He added that Hazim clarified in the audience that the accused Martínez Hazim It’s not your family member.
“That was important because that argument to imply that he had placed a nephew in the institution, and there is no family link,” he indicated.
About the case
The request for measure of coercion describes a supposed framework that combined administrative fraud, corruptiondocument falsification and money laundering.
According to the investigation, the network was headed by Santiago Hazim during his management at the head of state insurance, along with several managers and collaborators strategic.
So far, ten people are formally charged in the record.
