According to Monsignor Francisco Ozoria, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Santo Domingo, the Catholic Church has been prevented from investigating the alleged privileges being given to those individuals accused of wrongdoing in the Odebrecht scandal being housed in the Najayo Men’s Prison. Ozoria said that the Pastoral Penitentiary Board was not allowed to pursue an inquiry into their situation and was not given access to the area where the men are being kept.
Ozoria says that the privileges allowed to those detained in the Odebrecht case would put the new prison model in jeopardy as one of the ideas of the system is for all detainees to be treated equally and receive no special privileges.
The media reported that key suspect in the bribe’s case, Angel Rondón was taken to the Najayo Jail in a luxury Chevrolet Tahoe SUV to start his preventive custody period.
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El Dia
Hoy
20 June 2017
