The earth seems to have swallowed former Santiago deputy Miguel Gutierrez’s footprints, reports Listin Diario. The newspaper says that in just two years there is no sign of Miguel Gutierrez in Santiago. The man who presented himself as a real estate magnate and who reportedly had built more 5,000 apartments in the country’s second-largest city has erased his traces.
Gutierrez successfully campaigned for the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) and won the Santiago seat in 2020 as a deputy for the party. He recently was sentenced to 16 years in jail for his leadership role in a major drug trafficking ring.
Listin Diario reports that Gutierrez had openly operated the construction companies Gutiérrez Díaz SRL, Inmobiliaria La Hacienda, Migudi Inversiones SRL and BD Hipotecas y Pagares, SRL. The offices of these are no longer open.
According to a source from Listín Diario, Gutiérrez’s companies continue to operate in middle and upper-class sectors of the city, but now is keeping a low profile, so as not to attract the attention of the authorities.
Guillermo Moreno, a former prosecutor and director of the Unibe Law School, now running for senator for the ruling Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), says the Gutierrez case is an example of the degrading of politics in the Dominican Republic.
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9 April 2024