The Coordination of the Investigating Courts of the National District is in the final phase of organizing the accusation presented by the Public Ministry in the coral case to proceed to sort it out and choose the court that will hear the process.
The lawyers with whom Free Journal has made contact, they have said that they are waiting to be notified of the documents deposited by the Specialized Prosecution Office for Administrative Corruption (Pepca) to be able to comment on this case and also to prepare his defense arguments.
However, they have expressed concern about the “lack of adequate space” to learn about the process. They specified that “there is no courtroom in the Palace of Justice of Ciudad Nueva that is large enough” for the thirty defendants plus their lawyers and company representatives. In advance, they anticipate that this situation could become an obstacle in the process.
The Public Ministry deposited the accusation corresponding to the operations Coral Y Coral 5G last Wednesday. The Pepca requested that these two cases be merged and heard together as a single judicial process.
The indictment includes 12 new individuals and 13 companies. He has more than 3,500 tests, against the network submitted for defrauding the Dominican State with more than 4,000 million pesos.
The list of accused includes Generals Adán Cáceres Silvestre, Juan Torres Robiou, Julio de los Santos Viola, as well as Rafael Núñez de Aza, Raúl A. Girón Jiménez, Boanerges Reyes, Antonio Mata Flores, Carlos Lantigua Cruz, Blandesmil Guzmán, Miguel Ventura, Pastor Rossy Guzmán Sánchez, Tanner Flete Guzmán, Erasmo Pérez Núñez, Kelman Santana, José Rosario Pirón, Jehohanan Rodríguez, Esmeralda Ortega, Alejandro Montero, Epifanio Peña Lebrón, Lucía de Santos Viola, Manuel Alba Solano, Elida Trinidad Santiago, Manuel Alba Trinidad and Raymel Rosario Viola.
There are also Pedro Castillo Nolasco, Rosa Antonia Disla, Onoris Beatriz Soto, Erick Pereira Núñez, Santiago A. Suárez, and Guillermo Torres Robiou.
The accusation
According to the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca), these people and companies committed money laundering and other crimes, and the members of the network exorbitantly increased their assets with money stolen from the State.
It establishes that the “criminal network, taking advantage of its functions, its proximity and unrestricted support from the main executive of the country, committed a series of actions that are subsumed in serious criminal types.”
The structure was characterized by the creation of companies in the name of people related to the financier of these institutions to allegedly “supply fuel and expendable materials”, which were never delivered, making fictitious accounts to pass audit controls and thus be able to divert millionaire funds. of the State.
Millionaire sums were assigned as monthly items for rations, intelligence operations, securities that were used for personal expenses and investments of the directors and financiers of the institutions, says the Public Ministry.
