Santo Domingo.- In the agreement, approved by Judge Raymundo Mejía, of the First Court of the National District Instruction, the distributors were to represent by Celso Marranzini, who serves as president of the Unified Council of the Distributor Companies (Cue).
The energy distributors were legally assisted by Miguel E. Valerio Jiminián, Ramón Emilio Núñez and José Figueroa Guilamó, while the technical defense of the accused and its companies headed it by Joaquín Antonio Zapata Martínez and Edward Veras Vargas.
Wilson Camacho, head of the General Directorate of Persecution, and Mirna Ortiz, of the Pepca, valued the resolution of the court and indicated that this decision comes to reinforce the progress of the Public Ministry in its fight against administrative corruption and the impunity that the current Attorney General, Yeni Berenice Reynoso.
The decision leads Montilla to pay compensation of RD $ 600 million to the East Electricity Distributor (EDEATES), Electricity Distributor of the South (Edesur) and Northern Electricity Distributor (EDENORTE), in compensation for the damages caused by their actions.
Also, the Dominican Solomon, SAS, SAS, SAS, SAS, SAS, NSD, diverse imports, SRL transformative companies, SRL; FEE Electrical Materials Distributor, SRL; Henan Jinhui electric distributor, SRL; Importadora Eaglerise, SRL; TLC Business Globale, SRL; Watmax Lighting, SRL; RPC, SRL, and MG Solomon Corporation electric hardware within two years.
Likewise, the sum of RD $ 431,816,307.90 will have to pay to the General Directorate of Internal Taxes (DGII).
In addition, it authorizes the confiscation of a portion of land with an area of 200.18 square meters, within plot no. 5-C-PROV.- 85, of the Cadastral District no. 3, of the National District, located on Roberto Pastoriza Avenue no. 2, almost corner Avenida Ortega y Gasset, of the Naco Ensanche, valued at RD $ 50,901,692.13.
In the agreement, approved by Judge Raymundo Mejía, of the First Court of the National District Instruction, the distributors were represented by Celso Marranzini, who serves as president of the Unified Council of the Distributor Companies (Cue).
Montilla Sierra and its companies, on the other hand, are legally assisted by Miguel E. Valerio Jiminián, Ramón Emilio Núñez and José Figueroa Guilamo.
The Public Ministry establishes in the document that Montilla Sierra, investigated in the process against Juan Alexis Medina Sánchez and shares, used companies as a corporate vehicle to participate in the public procurement processes in a fraudulent manner and in violation of the regulations that regulate the hiring of the Dominican State, “thereby achieving illegal award in the detriment of public assets”.
He points out that during the time he did, he enjoyed privilege and access to privileged information.
Remember that corruption acts impacted companies that operate with functional and operational deficiency in the fundamental service they must provide to the country.
This situation obeyed, to a large extent, to losses derived from competition practices and fraudulent management by public officials and contractors, he says.
He explains that Montilla Sierra shows a significant increase in hiring
public awarded to their companies.
“From that moment on, several members of their family and trust environment, both directly and indirectly, substantially increased their presence and influence on state purchasing and hiring processes, especially in strategic areas such as energy, using as a platform the proximity to political power.
It indicates that by supplying the State, it incurred a monopoly of suppliers in the electricity sector that also operated with privileged information.
He also manipulated the delivery deadlines and incurred the state.
“For the purpose of obtaining advantages in the processes, bribes were made to public officials responsible for purchases and hiring in the electricity sector. These payments sought to influence administrative decisions, facilitate irregular contractual modifications and expedite disbursements,” says the approved agreement.
The Public Ministry promoted the agreement based on numeral 6, of article 370, of the Criminal Procedure Code, which establishes the origin of the opportunity criterion when the case refines the conditions to be declared complex, as happened in the investigation of the Antipulpo operation.
“This provision empowers the Public Ministry to request the application of said criteria when the accused effectively collaborates with the investigation, provides information that allows to avoid the continuation of the criminal activity or the commission of new infractions, contributes to the clarification of the facts investigated or provides relevant data, provided that the criminal action that is intended to be excluded is considerably less serious than the punishable facts whose repetition is avoided,” says the document.
