Santo Domingo.- The Public Ministry requested prison preventive measure coercionagainst the accused in the case Chameleon.
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The information was confirmed by prosecutor Mirna Ortiz, who also indicated that they asked to declare the case complex.
He also said that the hearing was set for this Saturday at 11:00 in the morning.
The judge pointed out that the accusations against those involved in the case of embezzlement from the State range from high-tech crimes, money laundering, falsification and use of false documents as well as fraud against the State through public contracts, with which The companies identified in the file were favored.
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The Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca) has Jochi Gómez, one of the owners of the company, under arrest Transcore Latam SRL, for the alleged irregularities in the tender for the modernization, expansion, supervision and management of the Comprehensive System of the Traffic Control Center and the Traffic Light Network of Greater Santo Domingo.
Hugo Beras, former director of the National Institute of Transit and Land Transportation, is also imprisoned (INTRANT).
On October 31, 2023, the General Directorate of Public Procurement (DGCP) suspended the contract signed between the National Institute of Traffic and Land Transportation (Intrant) and the company Transcore Latam, SRL for the indications of irregularities found in the contract.
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Public Procurement decided to suspend the effects of the contract for an amount of RD$1,317 million 350 thousand 997 pesos.
It is recalled that on November 9, the then executive director of Intrant, Hugo Beras, asked President Luis Abinader unpaid leavefollowing new information about the execution process of the traffic light system of Greater Santo Domingo.
Jochi Gómez was detained on Wednesday. Duany Nuñez
How the network operated
To carry out the alleged embezzlement from the State through the contract between the National Institute of Traffic and Land Transportation and the company Transcore Latam SRL, it was necessary to establish a scheme of responsibilities distributed among seven people, including Jochi Gómez and Hugo Beras.
