SANTO DOMINGO – The Public ministry filed in court “a hurricane of evidence” against Juan Alexis Medina Sánchez and the others accused of administrative corruption within the network dismantled by the Public Ministry with the Anti Octopus Operation.
This was stated by the head of the Specialized Prosecution Office for Administrative Corruption (Pepca), Wilson Camacho.
He said that at Monday’s hearing the defense made some requests to the court aimed at having the opportunity and the feasibility of accessing and analyzing the evidence provided by the prosecutors handling the case.
“The Public Ministry has not objected because it understands that these have been petitions of law and also that it is evident that the Public Ministry has deposited a hurricane of evidence in this process, in fact, a category 5 hurricane,” he said.
He explained that only in documentation of the evidence, the Public Ministry delivered to the court a device with 194 GB of information.
“Imagine, it is an immense amount of documentation that the Public Ministry has provided, demonstrating, once again, that when we go to court we go with each and every one of our lines of investigation shielded, and this case is also shielded with the amount of information that the Public Prosecutor’s Office has provided and that will be seen in the course of hearing this hearing,” he added.
The Public Ministry accuses Juan Alexis Medina Sánchez of belonging to a corruption network that swindled the State out of billions of pesos from taxpayers, taking advantage of his condition as the brother of the then President of the Republic, Danilo Medina Sánchez.
Against Juan Alexis Medina Sánchez and another 27 accused individuals and 21 companies, the Public Ministry presented an accusation on December 17, 2021, through a voluminous file for corruption and money laundering, of some 3,500 pages.
