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Santo Domingo. – According to the Justice Ministry, another of the modalities used to defraud the State by the defendants in the Medusa case, was the contracting of alleged transportation services that the signatories of the contracts did not execute, but the money was used by the defendants.
According to the indictment, the defendants, Alfredo Alexander Solano Augusto and Jonnathan Joel Rodríguez Imbert, after signing the contracts, communicated with the alleged service providers and told them that amounts of money had been deposited in their accounts by mistake. withdraw and deliver together with a debit card to the person designated for those purposes.
“In the course of the investigation of various acts of corruption involving the former Attorney General of the Republic, the defendant Jean Alain Rodríguez Sánchez, and a large part of his main collaborators, irregularities were detected in transportation services contracted by the Attorney General’s Office.”
“Therefore, a verification was initiated regarding twenty-two transport service contracts…”
Their alleged corrupt actions are downright shameless.
The people of the RD were being robbed of needed resources by officials who were not poor or short of personal assets. It is all about unquenchable greed, a full sancocho pot was not enough for them. They misused their power of office to provided themselves a blank check to deceitfully obtain cooking services and unending supply of fixings. Of couse, the public picked up the tab. Other officials turned a blind eye most likely because they were doing same? Institutional corruption !