Citizen Participation (PC) former coordinator Francisco Alvarez went public with the conversation had with suspended judge Awilda Reyes. He met with her twice with present coordinator Rosalia Sosa. The judges are linked to the “mafia” network, which according to the Attorney General is manipulating processes and negotiating the freedom of people linked to organized crime, especially drug dealing, money laundering and corruption.
Alvarez said that Reyes Beltre had given them information about the actions she is accused of, even though it appears that she did not provide any information when interviewed by the Public Prosecution Service.
Alvarez said that PC had held two meetings with Reyes Beltre, and at the last one she said that discussion had come to an impasse when she was interviewed at the Attorney General’s office, once she saw they were asking for all of the information in order to reach an agreement with her later.
However, although the Attorney General was offered an agreement he refused to until he knew what information she had.
Alvarez said that Reyes Beltre had confessed to signing a meeting note with Supreme Court of Justice president Mariano German Mejia, and also admitted to putting her name on a receipt to certify that she had received RD$350,000. She had earlier denied having “signed” the receipt.
The receipt, which was given to resigning Judicial Branch Council judge Francisco Arias Valera, is related to money he had allegedly given her in return for freeing Pedro Brand councilor Erinson de los Santos Solis, who is accused of association with contract killers responsible for the murders of public transport drivers.
Reyes Beltre told him that after signing the meeting note, German Mejia left the meeting and only she and Arias Valera were there and that is when she gave him the receipt that was signed by Arias Valera and she did not actually sign it but wrote her name.
As reported in El Caribe, Alvarez, who is a lawyer, criticized the attitude of the president of the Supreme Court of Justice Mariano German, who at a press conference accused suspended judge Awilda Reyes of accepting bribes on higher orders. Alvarez said the action disqualifies him from ordering any disciplinary hearing against the accused judge. German is the president of the Judicial Branch Council in charge of disciplinary actions against judges.
Irregularities by several of the judges now being accused by the Attorney General Office have been common knowledge since 2012 but no action had been taken by the Judicial Branch Council until now, when several controversial orders benefiting accused criminals issued by a known group raised too many red flags.
Alvarez added that since 2012 there had been many complaints by judges against Arias Valera, and that Mariano German should appear as a witness in the penal case to be initiated by the Attorney General Office.
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Imágenes del allanamiento a vivienda de jueza Awilda Reyes Beltré