The Public Ministry arm of the Specialized Prosecutors for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (PEPCA) issued a restrainer order for the Gulfstream American registration N16YY and/or N522HS parked at the Puerto Plata International Airport (Gregorio Luperon).
Prosecutor Laura Guerrero Pelletier of PEPCA says that the restrainer order was issued because the airplane is part of assets investigated by the Attorney General Office in the case of administrative corruption and asset laundering against senator Felix Bautista. Bautista is the former director of the Office of Supervisory Works of the Presidency under the former President Leonel Fernandez. He is also political secretary of the ruling PLD party.
Bautista is under investigation by the Attorney General Office. Previously charges against him have been filed by the Supreme Court of Justice. A court ruling scheduled for 4 December 2014 will determine whether the investigation can continue. Other cases of corruption filed against Bautista have been filed by the judiciary.
According to the PEPCA investigators, the airplane flew to Florida in September 2014 with the registration N16YY and returned to the DR in November with the registration N522HS in what is described as a phony registration transfer after the Attorney General Office had accused senator Bautista and six other persons of corruption and asset laundering on 22 October 2014.
Bautista has repeatedly over the years defended his innocence. He says that the case has already been investigated by the Supreme Court of Justice and cleared him.
Acento.com.do says the recent flight of the airplane can be followed on the private flight tracker at the website http://www.flightaware.com by entering the two registration numbers of the airplane.
Sparkles Management Services, Ltd., of the Lifestyle Holidays Vacation Club acknowledged having purchased in 2013 the Gulfstream jet the Attorney General Office has listed in the assets irregularly acquired by senator Felix Bautista.
The Gulfstream G-1159 jet is parked at the Gregorio Luperon International Airport in Puerto Plata. The company says that the present owner of the airplane is Secure Aircorp Inc. that is owned by Sparkles Management Services LTD of the Lifestyle Group.
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