Participacion Ciudadana (PC) civic group is requesting that the Attorney General Office (PGR) reveal the level of fulfillment by Odebrecht of the deal promoted by the Public Ministry to not prosecute Odebrecht officers. “The company committed not only to identify the bribed government officers, their accomplices and other persons involved, but also to reveal the monetary values of the bribes and who received them, and the public works for which they were paid, the means by which the money was paid, the bank accounts and accounting registrations for each bribe,” said PC, as reported in Acento.
PC, the Dominican chapter of Transparency International, demanded that Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez report on the implementation of the agreement now that more than a month has gone by after the deadline given for Odebrecht to deliver the agreed upon information.
PC also reminded the nation of the public promise made by the attorney general to cancel contracts, retain payments advanced by Odebrecht and proceed to take to civil and penal justice the company and its executives in the case for breach of the contracted obligation to share the information.
PC says it is logical to suppose that Odebrecht has all the information that served as the basis for the confession to US judicial authorities that it had delivered US$92 million in bribes to Dominican government officers and that is the information it should directly deliver to the Attorney General.
PC says that the information is of great importance given the doubt planted by the dissident vote of Judge Miriam Germán Brito on the deficiencies in the first file prepared by the Attorney General Office to sustain the pre-trial custody measures for those accused in the Odebrecht case.
PC says that if the agreed upon information is not rendered, the PGR should abandon the agreement and proceed to begin the penal and civilian prosecution of the crimes confessed by the company.
1 August 2017
