Former Attorney General Virgilio Bello Rosa is opposed to Dominican Revolutionary Party members defending officials of the past government against whom there is evidence of corruption. The lawyer, who resigned from his post over a disagreement with measures taken by the Mejia administration, said he would not defend these people even if it were former President Hipolito Mejia himself. As a former president of the PRD, Bello Rosa said that those who committed corruption would have to defend themselves.
He questioned the fact that former attorney general Victor Cespedes Martinez, Bello Rosa’s successor, tried to defend himself from accusations against him using the name of former President Mejia. He said that no statesman could order a person to commit a crime.
Bello Rosa said that the only truth that Cespedes has uttered is that there will never be an attorney general like him.