The Medusa file investigation prepared by the Anti-Administrative Corruption Prosecution Agency (Pepca) establishes that technology personnel at the Attorney General Office under former Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez Sánchez eliminated all traces of evidence of irregularities by simply erasing the evidence.
Diario Libre reports that prosecutors mention in the 12,000-page Medusa file the erasing of all incriminating information from the electronic devices and equipment of state institutions headed by Rodríguez Sánchez. According to the Public Ministry, Rodríguez ordered that sensitive and important information be erased in the electronic databases of the Attorney General’s Office, and at the Center for Exports and Investments of the Dominican Republic (CEI-RD) to avoid leaving evidence of the irregular actions. Rodríguez Sánchez was director of the CEI-RD from 2012 to 2016, and then Attorney General from 2016 to 2020 under the Danilo Medina administrations (2012-2020).
“Days before handing over the direction of the CEI-RD, in August 2016, Jean Alain Rodríguez ordered the Information Technology manager, Javier Alejandro Forteza Ibarra, to eliminate all the information contained in the institutional emails and computers of the Investment, Administrative and Financial, Accounting, Purchasing and Contracting, Human Resources and Legal Consultancy departments, including the backups,” the indictment states.
Something similar would have happened in the Attorney General’s Office when Jean Alain Rodriguez took over as attorney general and Forteza Ibarra as director of the Department of Information Technology and Communication. “A series of cybernetic events began to occur regarding sabotage, alteration and elimination of information in the database of the servers, as well as in the institutional e-mail. These computer incidents were detected in 2018, 2019 and 2020,” the Medusa case file states.
The start date and place of the hearings of the accusations against former attorney general Rodríguez Sánchez has yet to be announced. The PEPCA has prepared a 12,000+ file with dozens of accused in government and the private sector, including many from wealthy families and well known businesses.
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Diario Libre
13 July 2022