“What happens is that, if a lot was stolen, you have to investigate a lot,” said this Friday night the deputy solicitor Yeni Berenice Reynosowhen referring to the network of corruption dismantled with the Operation Medusawhose defense of imputed He stated that the case is not ironclad and has complained about the request of the Public Ministry for the court to grant him more time to present the accusation, mainly against the former attorney Jean Alain Rodriguez.
The owner of the General Directorate of Prosecution of the Public Ministry He recalled that it is impossible to structure a file on a “great robbery” with “a small investigation.” In that context he said: “…and the Public Ministry reiterates: a lot was stolen, a lot.”
He explained that the fraudulent and criminal modalities that the investigation has been determining have led to dozens of interrogations, as well as the tracking of dozens of companies that were used with people who had their documents falsified and their identity stolen.
“So, with all this line of investigation, under no circumstances, no one is going to be left out here,” he warned.
Reynoso answered questions from the press that addressed her after Judge Altagracia Ramírez de la Cruz, of the Fourth Investigating Court of the National District, postponed until next Wednesday, March 23, at 11:00 in the morning, the knowledge of the request for an extension from the Public Prosecutor’s Office to present the formal accusation against the accused, as well as the mandatory review of the coercion measure against the former Attorney General and Javier Alejandro Forteza Ibarra, former Director of Information and Communication Technology of the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
The deputy solicitor He maintained that “everyone who stole, everyone who participated in this network of corruption is going to be charged by the Public Ministry.”
In that sense, he added: “Doing a serious investigation takes time, but we have not invented time, it was the Code that gave that power.”
“We have shown that when we present a case, we present it with the evidence, that when we accuse, we accuse with the evidence; then, new facts, how they have emerged, as in the case of food, that all that framework, all those companies were created around the accused Jean Alain Rodriguezthrough his brother-in-law, that is not going to go uninvestigated,” Reynoso said, according to a press release from the Attorney General’s Office.
The deputy solicitor He insisted that all the facts are going to be investigated. “All the accusations, each peso that was distracted from the State, we are going to impute it”.
In addition to Reynoso, the Public Ministry was represented at the hearing by Deputy Attorney General Wilson Camacho, head of the Specialized Attorney for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca), as well as by the Litigation Coordinator of that body, Mirna Ortiz; Miguel Collado, Emmanuel Ramírez and Eduardo Velázquez.
The file involves the ex-prosecutor Jean Alain Rodriguez Sánchez and co-defendants Javier Alejandro Forteza Ibarra and Jonathan Joel Rodríguez Imbert, who since last year have served 18 months in preventive detention at the Najayo Hombres Correction and Rehabilitation Center in San Cristóbal.
The case is also pending against co-defendants Alfredo Alexander Solano Augusto, Rafael Antonio Mercede Marte, Jenny Marte Peña and Altagracia Guillén Calzado, who are under house arrest, and Miguel José Moya, who was given an economic guarantee of RD$1 million in the form of of contract, through an insurance company, exit impediment and periodic presentation.
Likewise, it involves Rafael Stefano Canó Sacco, the former chief of staff of attorney Rodríguez Sánchez, who was arrested in Spain last year and was requested to be handed over to the Dominican Republic.
The accusation
The group is accused of integrating the corruption network for which the former attorney is prosecuted Jean Alain Rodriguez Sánchez and several officials of his management in the Public Ministry in the period 2016-2020.
The file indicates that the imputed They 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 of more than six billion pesos.
The accusing body imputes the violation of articles 123, 124, 166, 167, 265, 266 and 405 of the Penal Code, which describe and sanction the coalition of officials, prevarication, association of criminals and fraud against the State, among other regulations. .
