Judges Isis Muñiz, Luis Omar Jiménez and Delio Germán, of the Second Room Criminal Court of the National District Court of Appeal, retired to deliberate tonight, after 11 hours of the hearing in which the request for variation of the measure of coercion made by the former director of the Intrant, Hugo Beras; José Ángel Gómez Canaán (Jochi), owner of the company Aurix SAS and Transcore Latam; and Pedro Vinicio Padovani Báez, former head of the Control Center Intrant traffic.
Tonight the justices are expected to adopt a decision on the application presented, in which they ask for a measure of coercion less burdensome to preventive detention. The Public Ministry, on the other hand, requests to maintain the coercion already dictated.
On October 10, those involved in the call Intrant case were sent to the Najayo Men’s Correction and Rehabilitation Center in San Cristóbal with 18 months of prison preventive for allegedly executing fraudulent the contract of 1,317 million pesos to install the traffic light network of Greater Santo Domingo.
Gómez, Beras and Padovani are accused by the Public Ministry of belonging to an alleged network of corruption and crime organized organization dedicated to embezzlement, fraud against the State, counterfeiting, coalition of officials, smuggling, illicit trade, sabotage and terrorism against critical infrastructure and identity theft.
The alleged irregularities in the tender revolve around the contract 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, which was awarded to the company Transcore Latam, owned by Jochi Gómez.
