Relatives of 43-year old architect David Rodriguez Garcia, a contractor of a public school who committed suicide last week, say that internal corruption in the Office of Supervisory Engineers of Public Works of the Presidency had led to his suicide.
Rodriguez shot himself in a bathroom at the OISOE. “It’s all due to blackmail, he did not want to pay bribes and they made his life impossible,” said Eduardo Valdez, uncle of the late engineer. He said that Rodriguez Garcia had been manipulated into taking loans from Joel Soriano de los Santos and Alejandro de los Santos Serrano, an employee and a former employee at OISOE.
“Everyone knows that the OISOE is a den of thieves, they extort engineers and if the engineer does not want to give money they make his life impossible,” said Vasquez.
OISOE director Francisco Pagan has delivered a request to the assistant prosecutor for administrative anti-corruption Laura Guerrero to investigate the two men mentioned by the late architect in a handwritten note he left before his death.
Rodriguez had won the raffle for the contract to build a public school in Peralvillo, Monte Plata but experienced delays in payments from the OISOE, which prevented the work from progressing. As reported in Hoy, he took the loans provided by the employee and associate, which in the end cost him more in interest payments than what the government paid for the work.
Read more in Spanish: http://hoy.com.do/familiar-arquitecto-denuncia-corrupcion-lo-llevo-a-la-muerte/