The Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR) has delayed the payment of salaries to some 30 prosecutors in disciplinary proceedings, generating unrest and concern in the Public Prosecutor’s Office, denounced the Association of Dominican Prosecutors (Fiscaldom).
Its executive coordinator, Francisco Rodríguez, and other members of the organization stated that they will support their colleagues in a protest that they announced will take place tomorrow in front of the institution in repudiation of the abuse that members of the institution who are facing disciplinary proceedings have been subjected to, in violation of the principle of equality.
“The Dominican Prosecutors Association wishes to express to all citizens, and especially to the members of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, our concern regarding the case of many of our colleagues who have not received their salaries this month,” explained Rodríguez.
He deplored the fact that the Attorney General of the Republic took the measure unilaterally, without consulting the other members of the Superior Council of the MP, to withhold the salaries of these prosecutors for having been subject to an investigation process, which has not been resolved after more than four years.
He said that some of these members of the Public Prosecutor’s Office were suspended illegally.
Other prosecutors, who said they are omitting their names to avoid falling into disgrace with the attorney general Miriam Germán Brito, told El Nacional that they were not paid their salaries last Friday, since the institution has not paid more than 20% of the salary.
Many of those affected went to the PGR on Friday to ask for an explanation of why they have not been paid, and the response they received was that “they don’t know anything.”
“We want to report that we have just learned that the prosecutor Miriam Germán sent a letter requesting that the salaries of 30 prosecutors be withheld, many of whom are sick and that they want to pay them with checks in an act of humiliation,” prosecutors told El Nacional when consulted.
They pointed out that this attitude violates the right to equality and health enshrined in Article 44 and 61 of the Constitution of the Republic.
Some of those affected are suspended and others have health problems.
“This has been an arbitrary, irrational and unfair decision. A decision that has not been made in a reasoned manner violates the presumption of innocence that every individual is entitled to, until there is a final and irrevocable sentence that provides otherwise,” said another member of the Association of Dominican Prosecutors (Fiscaldom).
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The representatives of the Public Prosecutor’s Office understand that negative consequences cannot be deduced without a motivated legal basis.
“If we are the guarantors of compliance with the law, we cannot violate it.”
