Santo Domingo.- Hugo Beras, former director of the National Institute of Traffic and Land Transportation (Intrant) and businessman Jochi Gómez, in preventive detention for 18 months, for the Camaleón case, in response to a request from the Special Prosecutor’s Office for the Prosecution of Corruption Administrative (Pepca).
Those involved were accused by the Public Ministry of committing high-tech crimes, money laundering, falsification and use of false documents and fraud against the State through public contracts carried out by Intrant with which companies such as Transcore Latam were favored.
The same measure was issued against Pedro Vinicio Padovani Báez, former head of the INTRANT Traffic Control Center.
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The decision was pronounced by the judge of the Permanent Attention Court of the National District, Fátima Veloz.
Samuel Gregorio Baquero Sepúlveda, former technology director of Intrant, was placed under house arrest and for the defendants Pedro Vinicio Padovani, former manager of the Intrant Traffic Control Center, Juan Francisco Carbuccia Administrative and Carlos José Peguero Vargas Financial, periodic presentation and exit impediments .
In Operation Camaleón that began last week, the Attorney General’s Office carried out raids in the National District, Santo Domingo Este, San Cristóbal, Punta Cana, La Altagracia, where hundreds of evidence were supposedly seized that will be used in the process, according to the report from the PEPCA.
The Public Ministry called operation Camaleón as an alleged corruption network related to a tender for the modernization of the traffic light system of Greater Santo Domingo, which awarded more than 1,317 million pesos to the company Transcore Latam, owned by Jochi Gómez.
