the owner of the Office of the Special Prosecutor for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca), Wilson Camachoconsidered this Monday that the accusation against the former attorney Jean Alain Rodriguez and others involved in jellyfish case It is unprecedented in the country or in the region.
He specified that the bribes of the network exceed the scandalous sum of 1,000 million pesos and that this was something never seen before in the Dominican Republic.
“This is our largest accusation. It has a volume of twelve thousand two hundred pages and within these, more than three thousand five hundred pieces of evidence and among the pieces of evidence more than four hundred witnesses”Camacho specified.
He listed that there are 41 accused people and 22 companies.
When asked by the press if the representatives of the Mac Construcciones company would be called to testify, Camacho responded by saying: “in the Dominican Republic, corruption has no place to hide.”
what is known
Regarding the accusation, it has been reported that, supposedly, before the tender for the Penitentiary System Humanization Plan was officially published, the former prosecutor Jean Alain Rodriguez and the members of the Medusa network had already selected the construction companies that would be winners and they had to return a “Toll” 20% of the total amount of the contract in favor of the members of the corruption network.
The special investigation carried out by the Chamber of Accounts into the Humanization Plan of the Penitentiary System, which gave rise to Operation Medusa, has also been attached to the file as evidence.
The former attorney He is prosecuted together with Alejandro Forteza Ibarra and other officials of his management (in the period from 2016 to 2020).
The file of jellyfish case highlights that the defendants were part of a criminal network of corruption that operated from the Attorney General’s Office and that, according to preliminary estimates, defrauded the Dominican State with more than 6 billion pesos.
Since July of last year, they have been in preventive detention for 18 months at the Najayo Hombres Correction and Rehabilitation Center, former prosecutor Jean Alain Rodríguez Sánchez, the former director of Information and Communication Technology of the Public Ministry, Javier Alejandro Forteza Ibarra, and the former administrative director, Jonathan Joel Rodríguez Imbert.
The engineer Jenny Marte Peña, former head of Projects, is under house arrest, as are former administrative deputy directors Alfredo Alexander Solano Augusto and Altagracia Guillén Calzadoas well as Rafael Antonio Mercedes Marte, former Director of Accounting.
The process is also being carried out against former adviser Miguel José Moya, who was imposed an economic guarantee of one million pesos in the form of a contract with an insurance company, an exit impediment and periodic presentation.
Likewise, it involves Rafael Canó Sacco, the former chief of staff of former attorney Rodríguez Sánchez, who was arrested in Spain last year and his delivery to the Dominican Republic was requested.
