A report in Listin Diario on 13 June 2018 says that there is little difference from the case file presented by the Attorney General Office on 30 May 2017 against 14 accused and that presented on 7 June 2018 against seven accused in the Odebrecht bribery scandal. On 7 June, the Attorney General filed a case that has 518 pages documenting accusations against Ángel Rondón, Andrés Bautista, Víctor Díaz Rúa, Conrado Pittaluga, Tommy Galán, Roberto Rodríguez y Jesús Vásquez (Chu). The case presented to judge Francisco Ortega Polanco of the Supreme Court in May 2017 had 336 pages. The only additional person included was former president of the Senate, Jesus Vasquez.
Andres Bautista defending lawyer, Carlos Salcedo, said that the formal accusation against his client is a repeat of the request for pre-trial measures. He described this as lacking in base and marred by incoherences. The new element in the file against Bautista is that the later deposited RD$1.8 billion in the local financial system from 2002 to 2017.
Miguel Valerio, defending lawyer of Victor Díaz Rua, had the same opinion. He said the accusations against his client have incoherences and are almost a repeat of the pre-trial coercive request. He said the only addition is the purchase of a yacht valued at US$5 million that reportedly was carried out with funds received from Odebrecht.
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Listin Diario
13 June 2018
