Tales of how, when and where Shlomo Ben-Tov alias Sam Goodson, the Israeli-American businessman involved in the Plan Renove transportation scandal, have speculated on his leaving the country. Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito insists that Goodson departed on the 24th via Haiti, from where he took a flight to Miami. But Diario Libre says that American Airlines database shows that he departed on an American Airlines flight from Las Americas International Airport to Miami on 2:05 pm on Friday, 22 April. Regardless, Francisco Dominguez Brito, the Attorney General, told reporters that he would seek an extradition order for Goodson.
Judge Alfredo Rios Fabian had decreed restraining orders on Friday and vetoed any of the accused in the case from leaving the country. Rios Fabian decreed last 22 April that Goodson post a RD$50,000,000 bail bond, upon finding sufficient evidence that supports the accusations that Goodson was tied into the RD$1.8 billion fraud committed against the Dominican government. Goodson had left the courtroom 50 minutes before the judge’s decision was announced. The judge had mentioned that Goodson had brought in several vehicles that were used to bribe high-ranking officials of the Hipolito Mejia government, including one in the name of Jose Ceferino Adames, a special assistant to Mejia.