DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

The defense of former Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez Sanchez asked Judge Amauri Martinez of the Third Investigative Court of the National District to trash the accusation against his client during the second defense hearing on 16 April 2024. The defense argues that the accusatory body has committed 17 violations of the Constitution against his client.

The right to defense and property, as well as the alleged leaks of information, are among the long list of violations committed by the Public Ministry towards its client, according to Jean Alain Rodríguez’s lawyers.

Former Attorney General Jean Alain Rodriguez Sanchez is accused of bribes and a corruption network when he led the Attorney General Office from 2016 to 2020. Of the 63 defendants, 26 have pleaded guilty in the alleged embezzlement of more than six billion pesos that was supposedly led by Jean Alain...