The Special Prosecutor for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (PEPCA) has uncovered a new case of extortion involving Alejandro Isidoro Santos and Julio Rafael Perez Alejo, the defendants in the corruption case in the Supervising Office of State Projects (OISOE), as reported in Listin Diario.
This time the victim was an engineer, Dario George Sarita, who won the raffle to build a public school in Nagua. De los Santos and Perez Alejo are under investigation after the suicide in September of architect David Rodriguez Garcia, who left a handwritten note claiming that he had been a victim of extortion by both men.
In the 31-page accusation drafted by the administrative corruption unit, already submitted to the National District Permanent Attention Services Judicial Office, PEPCA states that it has established that Alejandro Delos Santos and Julio Rafael Perez Alejo not only acted against architect Garcia but also were constantly threatening engineer Dario George Sarita, who was awarded the construction of the Dr. Jose Francisco Pena Gomez School in Nagua in the northeastern province of Maria Trinidad Sanchez in 2013. The contract was for RD$20 million. According to PEPCA, De los Santos constantly threatened to take away the project from engineer George Sarita.
De los Santos and Perez Garcia together with others are currently in pre-trial detention and the Palace of Justice in Ciudad Nueva.
In a related article in El Nacional, Pedro Castro reported that when questioned by prosecutors, lawyer Julio Rafael Perez Alejo stated that the OISOE technical director had provided the money for the loans to the engineers who were building schools for the government. Apparently Perez Alejo, De los Santos’ personal assistant, was in charge of the documentation and invoices that supported the loans.
In his statements to the deputy prosecutors from PEPCA he said that the money that was loaned had come from the former technical director, Jose Florencio, who left OISOE when Francisco Pagan Rodriguez replaced Miguel Pimentel Kareh as director.
El Dia reports that dozens of engineers are in the same situation as David Rodriguez with back logged payments, the engineer who apparently committed suicide for financial reasons and whose suicide note blaming two men has opened a can of worms at OISOE.
Read more in Spanish:
Autoridades estiman decenas contratistas afectados por mafia
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