defense of Juan Alexis Medina Sanchez affirmed yesterday Friday that after concluding the factual, legal and evidentiary rebuttal to the main defendant of the anti octopus case he will take the stand to talk about the accusations against him during the preliminary trial.
“Today we possibly conclude the part of the factual rebuttal, the legal rebuttal and the evidentiary rebuttal, but I don’t think there will be time for Juan Alexis Medina Sanchez I talked”, said the jurist Carlos Salcedo, who is the person in charge of defending the former president’s brother Danilo Medina.
The lawyer pointed out that it would be next week when Medina Sánchez takes the stand: “But yes, he is going to speak and he will speak twice.”
Salcedo continued this Friday the third day of presentation of the defense arguments of the accusation against the brother of Medina Sánchez during the preliminary trial of the case.
He indicated that the position held by the Public ministry It is that the companies he defended were cabinet companies, but he pointed out that these types of companies do not work and do not sell.
“Each of the companies, the ones that are truly linked to him (Medina Sanchez) they did regular business operations, they sold to the State, delivered and chargedand that was duly endorsed by each one of the guidelines that passed through the General Comptroller of the State with all the sieve that this means“, explained the lawyer.
He said that the accusations against his client establish that he had operations with the Fonper and that he had bought a pair of scissors from one of the companies that he owned, which he pointed out is wrong, since it was shown that said company did not belong to him. .
He assured that there is evidence that the industrial scissors were delivered to the Fonper.
“But secondly, what Juan Alexis Medina Sanchez supposedly equipped a number of bakeries and pastry shops and that this was not true. However, there is proof of photos and videos and, at the same time, proof of receipt of each one of the equipment of those bakeries that supplied it, not a company of Juan Alexis Medina Sanchez, but however we want to show that,” he said.
He assured that one of the bakeries was recently inaugurated, which means, he argued, that the teams were there and that his client did not nothing illegal.
“Obviously what is the sin of the companies linked or not to Juan Alexis Medina Sánchez”, he pointed.
On the illicit campaign financing of which he is accused Alexis Medinathe lawyer Carlos Salcedo indicated that no test that he has contributed resources to the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) for his political campaigns and that electoral laws establish that contributions can be made personally to party institutions as long as they do not exceed 1% of what is assigned to that party .
He explained that the Public ministry He says that his client has 21 companies, but that the ones that are most closely linked to him are nine, even though they are not his.
The process against Medina Sánchez is being known by the judge of the Seventh Investigating Court of the National District, Deiby Timoteo Peguero, and on January 6 the defense said that the magistrate must declare incompetent to continue learning about the case.
