Investigative journalist Alicia Ortega denounced during her Monday, 1 November report, that businesses related to senator Alexis Victoria Yeb (PRM-Maria Trinidad Sánchez) have carried out transactions for RD$500 million with the Dominican government.
Victoria Yeb is the same senator who has led a movement in the Senate that drafted a bill that would remove tax exemptions and perks received by the senators from other government officers and private business.
Alicia Ortega revealed that the company Cristalia Dominicana S.A., with ties to the senator, and Drodena S.A., listed in his sworn statement of assets, have sold more than US$516.5 million in pharmaceutical and medical products to the government since the legislator took office on 16 August 2020.
Alicia Ortega revealed this Monday, 1 November 2021 that Cristalia Dominicana from August to December 2020 sold more than RD$7.2 million sold to the state, while in the 10 months of this year the company won public contracting procedures for RD$470.5 million pesos. The supplies were dispatched to 14 hospitals, the 911 Emergency System, the Essential Medicines Program (Promese) and Central Logistical Support.
Of these, more than RD$446 million in 5 contracts fell under emergency, urgency or sole supplier contracting modality to supply Promese/Cal with high-cost medicines or to combat Covid-19, and expendable material for vaccinations.
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2 November 2021