Former President Leonel Fernandez will appear tomorrow at 10 am at the Juzgado de Instrucción de Primera Instancia del Distrito Nacional as a witness in the case for corruption regarding his government’s welfare program, Programa Eventual Minimo de Empleo (PEME). The judiciary has incarcerated the program’s former director, Luis Ynchausti, and former administrative secretaries of the Presidency, Diandino Peña and Simón Lizardo, in addition to former budget director Haivanjoe Ng Cortiñas have bans from traveling abroad. Judge Esther Agelan Casasnovas will question the former chief of state.
