He Second Collegiate Court of the National District rejected the request for provisional lifting of the impediment to leaving the country presented by the former Attorney General of the Republic, Jean Alain Rodríguez Sánchezwho cited health reasons for traveling to Spain.
The decision, contained in a resolution issued on February 20, 2026, was made by the court due to the lack of livelihood valid evidence.
Rodriguez Sanchezprosecuted for alleged violations of multiple provisions of the Penal Code and special laws linked to corruption administrative and money laundering, requested authorization to move to the Ruber International Hospitalfrom the Quirón Salud Group, in Madrid, where he had an appointment scheduled with the urologist Juan Carlos Ramírez Fernández for the evaluation of a pre-existing kidney disease.
Through his lawyers, the former attorney argued that he suffers from an adenoma in the left kidney and recurrent kidney stonesa condition that—as explained—requires specialized monitoring and even eventual surgical intervention abroad, due to a history of prior treatment in the United States.
It is indicated that “it has a health condition relevant, consisting of an adenoma in the left kidney associated with recurrent kidney stonesdiagnosed by multiple national and international specialists, which requires continuous medical supervision, specialized treatments and eventual surgical intervention by doctors with experience in your clinical history, particularly in the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) of the city of Boston, United States, where he underwent surgery in 2008.
Likewise, it is established that “his clinical condition dates back to the month of July 2008, when, as a result of an emergency, a abdominal sonography that evidenced kidney stones left non-obstructive”, being subsequently referred to the Massachusetts General Hospitalwhere he was subjected “to the procedures of cystoscopy, left retrograde pyelourethelogram, ureteroscopy, laser lithotripsy and stone extraction.”
The text adds that, as a result of these procedures, “the deformation of the left kidney and its tendency to generate calculations periodically that would be encapsulated in an adenoma, recommending repeating the interventions at approximate intervals of seven to ten years.
It is also recorded that in May 2022 “he presented an acute episode of renal colic-type lumbar pain that required emergency admission for twenty-four (24) hours”, subsequently confirming “an image suggestive of kidney stones in the left inferior pelocaliceal group”.
In more recent studies, carried out in June 2025, it is noted that “kidney stones left non-obstructive and dense cortical material in the affected kidney, in correlation with his surgical history and previous studies.
However, both the Public Ministryrepresented by the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for the Prosecution of Corruption Administration (Pepca), like the lawyers of the Dominican State, opposed the petition, alleging that there was no real variation in the circumstances that justified the imposition of the exit impediment, and that the medical documentation submitted did not prove an emergency situation or the impossibility of receiving treatment in the country.
The court focused its analysis on a decisive procedural aspect: a relevant part of the medical documents provided by the defense was written totally or partially in English and did not have an official translation into Spanish by a judicial interpreter, as required by the article 137 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
The judge Claribel Nivar Arias argued that this omission prevents granting evidentiary effectiveness to the documents, since it compromises the principles of contradiction, equality of arms and due process.
He also pointed out inconsistencies between some documents in english and alleged Spanish versions without official certification, which raised doubts about their authenticity and integrity.
Consequently, since the essential factual budget is not proven—that is, the medical necessity that justified the trip—the court declared the request inadmissible and kept in force the measure preventing him from leaving the country, along with the financial guarantee that weighs on the accused.
The decision is susceptible to appealaccording to article 249 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
Rodriguez Sanchez faces substantive judgment for alleged acts of corruption committed during his management at the head of the Attorney General’s Office.
