The fiscal Maria Ortiz regretted that the defenses of the case Coral are dedicated to obstructing the knowledge of the
hearings, after the First Court of the Instruction of the National District accept another request to postpone the mandatory review of the measures of coercion of the accused.
Judge Raymundo Mejía ordered the postponement of the hearing for next Friday, March 11, at 10:00 in the morning.
Mirna Ortiz, Coordinator of Litigation of the Specialized Prosecution Office for Administrative Corruption (Pepca), regretted that the prosecutors were summoned to know the measure this Friday, but that
it was postponed for the third time at the request of defense attorneys.
“The Public Ministry, as always, is ready to hear about its hearings, but on this occasion the defense of the accused Alexander Monterowhich was recently empowered, requested the postponement from the court to the
purposes of being able to know the glosses of the process”, he explained.
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Likewise, he said that the defendant’s lawyer Rafael Nunez de Aza, Felix Portessent excuses to the court, since he was hearing another process in the interior of the country.
Ortiz said that this led to the hearing being suspended to guarantee the defense rights of these citizens, warning the judge that for the next hearing the parties that are
presents.
“Three times this mandatory review has been postponed, each time for reasons that are attributable to the lawyers and the accused, on all occasions,” said the representative of the Public Ministry when responding to journalists who asked questions about the process in the Palace. of Justice of New City.
In May of last year, the Public Ministry presented evidence that led the courts to impose 18 months of preventive detention against Major General Adán Cáceres Silvestre and Rossy Guzmán Sánchez (La Pastora), as well as police corporal Tanner Antonio Flete Guzmán, son of the nun; Police Colonel Rafael Núñez de Aza and Army Sergeant Alejandro José Montero Cruz.
While against Raúl Alejandro Girón Jiménez house arrest was ordered for security reasons, for cooperating with the investigation of the Public Ministry.
The accused are imprisoned in the correction and rehabilitation centers of Najayo Hombres y Mujeres, in San Cristóbal, while the Public Ministry continues to deepen the investigation of the case, which was declared
complex processing.
The defendants are prosecuted for incurring the crimes of association of criminals, fraud against the Dominican State, coalition of officials, falsification of public documents, laundering of assets from
acts of corruption and carrying and illegal possession of firearms.
The General Directorate of Persecution of the Public Ministry and the Pepca, directed by the deputy prosecutors Yeni Berenice Reynoso and Wilson Camacho, carry out the investigations with a large team of prosecutors.
The criminal network dismantled with Operation Coral carried out its criminal activities in the Presidential Security Corps (Cusep) and in the Specialized Tourist Security Corps (Cestur), mainly with
the bulge of the payroll.
The Public Ministry established in the course of the judicial process that they carried out fraudulent operations to acquire movable and immovable property, luxury vehicles and properties in different parts of the country,
valued in millions of pesos.
