The National Police (NP) has identified 10 brigadier generals and 31 military officers who were assigned vehicles that had been stolen and recovered by the police but not returned to their legal owners, as reported in the Listin Diario. The investigation of the case has now put forward the names of Generals Alejandro Deno Brioso, Ramon Francisco Rodriguez Sanchez, Alberto Bienvenido, Guarionex Aguero Encarnacion, Rafael Rodriguez Florimon, Miguel Duran Delgado, Radhames Terrero Castillo, Cesar German, Francisco Pichardo and Rafael Almonte Morrobel, according to the report. These names are in addition to the former NP chief Jaime Marte Martinez, Brigadier Generals Yuri Ruiz Villalona, Osvaldo Hernandez de la Cruz, Pedro Hernandez Reynoso and Ernesto Ovalles Conception, and Colonels Fausto Tiburcio Batista and Felipe Manuel Terrero Garcia, names that are found in the first dossier on the case that was submitted to the District Attorney’s office.
A list that identified 10 more generals, 11 colonels, 7 lieutenant colonels, 4 majors, 6 captains, 2 first lieutenants, 1 second lieutenant, 3 sergeants and 1 civilian was released to Nuria Piera, the Color Vision investigative TV journalist.
The other officers who benefited are listed as Ramoncito Giron Alcantara, Edwardo Sarraf Herrera, Jose Mercado Herrera, Juan Guzman Toribio, Angel Sanchez Martinez, Ricardo Campos Batista, Osvaldo Morillo Rodriguez, Marcos Roa Castillo, Juan Brown Perez, Juan Antonio Mejia Ruiz and Ramon Vilorio Calderon; Lieutenant Colonels Rafael Herrera Pena, Eris Rosario Margarin, Jose Martin Burgos, Jose Antonio Ceballos, Felix Medrano, Saturnino Lora Urena and Jose Guzman Beato; Majors Dennys Amauris Diaz, Wilton de Jesus Cepeda, Lirio Rojas Acosta; Captains Reyes Reyes, Jose de Oleo, Oscar Tejeda Baez, Luis Felix Castillo, Oscar Tejeda and Cuevas Castillo; First Lieutenants Luis Marte Martinez and Jackson Maldonado Zabala; Second Lieutenant Eduard Tiburcio Belliard; Sergeants Luis Alberto Javier, Perez Reynoso and Alfredo Santana; and civilian Rafael Terrero.
Last night, General Ramon Francisco Rodriguez told Listin Diario that the vehicle that appears as having been assigned to him was actually being used by the NP’s public relations department.
District Attorney Jose Manuel Hernandez told the newspaper that NP officers have returned five other vehicles that were used illicitly after having been seized as criminal evidence.
Most of the vehicles, however, are cited in the claims from the national insurance companies that had already paid damages for their losses to their rightful owners and were aware that the vehicles were in the hands of the police.
The District Attorney’s office has received extensive documentation on the illegal distribution of the stolen vehicles to officers, as well as who authorized their allocation, details that were registered in a notebook that is reportedly now in the hands of the state prosecutors.