Judge Alfredo Rios Fabian documents in his indictment for the Plan Renove case that businessman Johnny Morales was the intellectual author of the Plan Renove transport scheme, whereby 14 persons are accused of fraud to the state, as reported in the Listin Diario. Judge Rios said that the trial needs to establish that Morales was the intellectual author of the illicit association that was formed and organized to scam the Dominican state with the sale of Hyundai vehicles and to obtain numerous economic benefits for himself and several government officers and businessmen.
Judge Rios said they have found sufficient elements to lead them to assume that Morales participated in an active way in the purchase of the vehicle units. As reported in the Listin Diario, in one of the motivations of the indictment, the judge explains that “Morales, through his partner abroad, Sam Goodson, offered to the state vehicles of less quality and higher cost and for that purpose traveled frequently to Miami where he conceived the strategy of contracting the company of Goodson by way of bribes, gifts and promises of economic advantages for the government officers.”
In the motivation, the judge says that Morales used as a front for this purpose his son-in-law Hector Manuel Everts Garcia, who represented Sam Goodson in the country. The judge wrote that the scheme was to present to the authorities the advantage of having a newly created company that sold vehicles, that they called Hyundai American Corporation, that in turn represented Hyundai Comercial Vehicles American of Sam Goodson. The judge stated that 1,102 vehicles were purchased for an inflated US$56.5 million by using the company. The downside is that the irregularity of the purchase left the vehicles without the guarantee offered by Hyundai, because the company did not have a RNC or tax registration number. The judge says it has proof that Morales received for his services two Hyundai vehicles valued at RD$3 million. The judge says that Morales used his chauffeur of 30 years, Jose Gregorio Javier Estrella, as front in the operation who received RD$31.3 million at the time of the transaction. The money was deposited in a Central Bank CD.
Diario Libre today provides a comprehensive list of accusations against several others in the Plan Renove case. See http://www.diariolibre.com/app/article.aspx?id=32218