Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez and several adjunct prosecutors met with Magdalena Boynton, associate director for Mexico, Central America, Spanish-speaking Caribbean, US Department of Justice this past weekend.
Attorney General Office press release dated 16 July 2017 says that the meeting was to coordinate actions for greater bilateral collaboration in transnational crimes prosecution.
The press release indicates that combatting corruption, drug trafficking, asset laundering, arms and people trafficking, and extraditions was discussed.
This meeting was a follow up to the visit in May 2017 made by Attorney General Rodríguez to Washington, D.C. where he met with US Attorney General Jeff Sessions. That meeting with Sessions was prior to the Dominican justice presenting the first accused in the Odebrecht corruption scandal.
The US justice is following up the corruption scandal that impeded US companies from winning contract work in the Dominican Republic.
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17 July 2017
