State prosecutors are accusing a Mexican senator of money laundering in the Dominican Republic. As reported in Hoy, former prosecutor Jean Alain Rodriguez Sánchez recruited a group of Mexicans to promote his political aspirations. The Mexican communications company, DGI Consultoría Estratégica S.A. de C.V. received million dollar payments for the promotion.
Incumbent senator for the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM), Alejandra Lagunes is accused in the Medusa case underway with the former prosecutor the main defendant.
The accusatory file of the Medusa case shows that the group of Mexicans, who were called “Los Tequilas”, were paid a per diem from the resources of the Attorney General’s Office and were assigned a place (now seized) for their activities in the Dominican Republic. State prosecutors say more than two million dollars were paid from Attorney General Office funds for the promotional activities in favor of the former chief prosecutor.
Lagunes and her team and associates were allegedly paid millions to oversee the operating of a bot farm, local advertising and polling to position the former attorney general as a leading politician. As reported, the Mexicans operated out of a rented place called “The Bunker” that was located in Los Jardines del Embajador in the capital city.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office says the members of the Mexican promotional team were: Alejandra Lagunés Soto Ruiz, Salvador Cacho, Abril Vásquez Rojas; Sergio Solache, Paloma Alejandra Franco López, Daniel Pineda Ibarra; José Antonio Quiñones Vázquez, Sergio Manuel Solache Vázquez, Jorge Luis Días González; Yamil Gustavo Nares, Daniel Pineda Ibarra, Arturo Guillermo Ocana; José Antonio Galicia, Silvia Zafra and Aldo Hiram Campuzano Rivera. These reportedly received RD$4,178,582 via the company Global Tours & Travel S. R.L. for work for the Attorney General’s Office that they never carried out but instead performed personal services in favor of the former attorney general.
The accusation specifies that the Mexican legislator has been left out of the charges in the Medusa case for obvious procedural reasons, but that the official channels of international legal cooperation will be used, in order to make available to the Mexican authorities the serious findings against her that are in the custody of the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
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Hoy
Altagracia Salazar Sin Maquillaje
13 July 2022