Santo Domingo.-The Public Ministry filed this Friday night the request for coercive measures against the former director of the National Institute of Transit and Land Transportation (Intrant), Hugo Berasbusinessman Jochi Gómez and five other people, accused of corruption.
The Litigation Coordinator of the Public Ministry, Mirna Ortiz, arrived at 7:47 at night in the company of other prosecutors at the Ciudad Nueva Courthouse in the Dominican capital where she deposited the file with which the Public Ministry requests a measure of coercion. against the defendants involved in a scandal involving a contract for the modernization of traffic lights in Greater Santo Domingo made by Intrant.
The Public Ministry accuses Beras of using RD$1,200,000,000.00 from the National Institute of Civil Aviation (Idac) to finance the company Transcore Latam SRL in the project to modernize the traffic light system of Greater Santo Domingo.
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He is pointed out as the promoter of the financial contribution mechanism with funds coming from another institution of the company Transcore Latam SRL, accused of fraudulently winning the tender that was made for the modernization of the traffic light system of Greater Santo Domingo.
Said data, according to the prosecuting body, is contained in a report of a special investigation that it carried out into the Intrant bidding process, on August 30, 2024, through the Anti-Fraud Unit of the Comptroller General of the Republic.