N Digital reports that while the country was under Covid-19 quarantine and in a National State of Emergency, from the Ministry of Hacienda, a major operation was underway to pay state resources to a handpicked few. The Specialized Prosecution Service for Administrative Corruption (PEPCA) prosecutors saysthat at least RD$17 billion were fraudulently paid from January to July 2020, smack in the worst days of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Ministry of Hacienda under former Minister Donald Guerrero is under investigation for significant corruption.
The modus operandi, according to the PEPCA, was to make fraudulent payments to third parties, under the modality of alleged public debt, for the expropriation of land, or past debt collecting for government procurement. Also under investigation are transactions whereby the state disbursed funds in favor of beneficiaries of the corrupt structure acting from the Ministry of Hacienda.
Muckraking journalist Alicia Ortega gave details on the irregularities at the Ministry of Hacienda under minister Donald Guerrero for her Monday, 29 August 2022 El Informe report.
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El Informe con Alicia Ortega
30 August 2022