On Wednesday, 1 March 2017, the Senate approved the appointment of Hugo Francisco Alvarez Pérez as the presiding member for the Chamber of Accounts, the auditing body of the government.
Alvarez Pérez is the son of a former justice of the Supreme Court of Justice, Hugo Alvárez Valencia. He graduated in law from the Catholic University Madre y Maestra (today PUCMM) in 1977.
He has served as a state prosecutor for the judicial district of La Vega and has held diplomatic positions at the Dominican Embassy in Bonn, Germany.
Judge Alvarez Pérez was also the head of the Legal Department at the Superintendence of Banks for the northern region of the country. He has taught at the Cibao Catholic Technological University in La Vega and at the Fernando Arturo de Meriño Agro-forestry University in Jarabacoa.
A well-known participant in the carnival activities in La Vega, Alvarez Pérez was crowned King Momo of the 2010 Carnival in La Vega.
Judge Alvarez Pérez had a moment of show business fame when he was the civil justice that married singer Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley in La Vega in 1994.
2 March 2017
