Hoy newspaper’s online edition was updated this afternoon to reveal the names of those National Police generals and colonels who illicitly obtained luxury vehicles that were stolen, recovered, and never returned to their legitimate owners. The most prominent name on the list of offenders is that of retired General Jaime Marte Martinez, the former chief of the Police, who had 15 such vehicles assigned to him. Other names mentioned are retired Colonel Fausto Tiburso Batista, with 20 vehicles, and retired Brigadier General Pedro Hernandez Reynoso, who had 10.
According to the report, District Attorney Jose Manuel Hernandez said that others on the list include brigadier generals Yuri Ruiz Villalona (4 vehicles), Osvaldo Hernandez de la Cruz (7 vehicles) and Ernesto Ovalles Concepcion (2 vehicles).
On the list released to the press there is a section in which another 18 vehicles are mentioned, but not matched to the names of those who had been using them.
The chief prosecutor for Santo Domingo told the press: “By revealing these names, I am not assigning responsibility to these officers. We are investigating and that investigation is what will determine the responsibility they may have had.”