Thank you Pichard for that attachment when read slowly several times is clear.What Chip wrote is not correct ,,,he may have thought the case related to the construction at the University but it does not . It refers to an irrigation project in the Azua district which was a contract between the DR, a DR agency and Sunland of Florida .The contracts were written during the Presidency of Mejia and things proceeded in an unsatisfactory manner until 2004 when there was a change of government,Leonel became President and in his first term Sunland was advised the contract would not proceed further . Whether this was because of lack of funding or because of unsatisfactory work is not clear but the DR was sued in a Florida court and in 2013 judgement went against the DR .The DR appealed and in this final judgement , Sunland received nothing but there is about $500,000 to be paid in architectural fees.
It is a complex case because there are only a few people who know whether the termination of the work was justified..the fact that another contractor had been lined up to continue the work suggests there may have been .
Like it or not ,there is no evidence that Bautista was involved in any scam here . The detailed contracts were entered into before he was a minister and the financing of the project that was organised by Sunland came from a Texas Bank .
The contract for the university buildings is an entirely different matter .