“What happened is that I walked through the mud, but no mud stuck on me,” said president of the Senate, Reinaldo Pared Pérez (PLD-National District) when asked to comment on observations from the Revolutionary Modern Party officials that his name should have been on the list of those arrested in the Odebrecht bribery case.
Pared Pérez also said that he had never refused to be investigated. He added that contrary to what has been speculated that none of those arrested had close ties to President Medina’s faction in the PLD, he said that Temístocles Montás, Tommy Galán and Julio César Valentín were all “Danilo’s men”.
He went on to say that people just wanted to cause divisions within the ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) that he said was not going to happen.
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Listin Diario
31 May 2017
