Marcha Verde, the civic society group that promotes an end to impunity for corruption in government, called for Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez to investigate suspect funding by Odebrecht-related sources to electoral campaigns in the Dominican Republic.
The movement said the Odebrecht investigation must include the illegal financing of electoral campaigns, because that was the mechanism used by Odebrecht throughout the American and African continents. Moreso, Marcha Verde says that already a member of the political committee of the ruling PLD political party has recognized the crime. Marcha Verde also points out that Brazilian Joao Santana was prosecuted in Brazil for being part of the international construction fund triangulation scheme. At the time of his arrest, Joao Santana was the key electoral campaign strategist for President Danilo Medina. “Leaving this issue out of the case is pure and hard complicity”, the group said in a statement.
The movement recalled that the former Minister of Industry and Commerce and member of the Political Committee of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), Juan Temístocles Montás, acknowledged receiving money from Ángel Rondón (the commercial representative of Odebrecht in the Dominican Republic) to finance the campaigns presidential elections of Leonel Fernández (2008) and Danilo Medina (2012 and 2016) in the southern region.
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El Dia
7 Dias
9 May 2018
