The Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) dismissed the report from the commission appointed by the President of the Dominican Republic to evaluate the Punta Catalina 600MW thermoelectric central the government is building Peravia province. The PRM called the report “a useless effort to justify the partiality of the administration of Danilo Medina in granting the contract to Odebrecht.”
Spokesmen for the leading opposition party argued that many of the recommendations of the commission constitute violations of laws and regulations currently on the books. They called upon the Dominican society to redouble their efforts to demand that impunity should not prevail and that the violations of the laws and regulations should be singularly punished.
The political party asks “Why does the report protect the interests of Odebrecht and not those of the Dominican Republic?”
In pointing out several violations, the PRM mentions costly distortions regarding the financial aspects of these coal-fired plants together with the confessions of bribery that were involved in the negotiations and the clear indications of the over-evaluation of the cost of the project.
The PRM said that the conclusions contribute little to clearing up the violations and irregularities committed in the tender process of this project and regretted that the conclusions of the investigation did not refer to other important violations made by the Brazilian company regarding the tender as well as local legislation related to the contracts for state projects and the alleged associated bribery.
The PRM cited the fact that “on confessing the payment of bribery Odebrecht violated article 7.1 (D) of the Prequalification Phase that establishes that one of the prerequisites for participating is that the firm (in this case Odebrecht) had not incurred in the payment of bribery either in the country or overseas.” The PRM says that the report coincides with the allegations made by Odebrecht and absolves them of any guilt.
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El Dia
Hoy
6 July 2017
