Press reports are now tangling former PLD government officer Euclides Sánchez and former secretary of the Presidency and PLD presidential candidate Danilo Medina into a corruption scandal. Investigations into the case of a highway construction are surrounded by many irregularities. The District Attorney’s office told the press that one of the contractors of the San Juan-Vallejuelo highway had only an 11th grade education, which is in violation of the Ministry of Public Works requirement of an engineering title and license to qualify for a public work contract. To qualify for the contracts, Felix Manuel Abreu Castillo, president of Constructora Cararo, a company founded in 1997, used the services of engineer Narciso Simonó, whom Abreu Castillo said demanded the participation of the millionaire profits for signing the engineering plans. During the investigations, Abreu Castillo’s relative, Domingo Alberto Abreu Gómez, explained that the work was assigned to Felix Abreu Castillo by Euclides Sánchez, who at the time was the director of the Oficina Coordinadora y Fiscalizadora de Obras del Estado, under instructions from Danilo Medina. Abreu Castillo was the chief of the Medina campaign in San Juan de la Maguana. Abreu Gómez said that Medina directly benefited from the allotted works as Abreu Castillo acted as a front man. Medina is a native of San Juan de la Maguana. These developments have arisen as the government investigates the performance of the former government works coordinator, Felix Bautista, an engineer who notably went from rags to riches.
