The National Association of Fuel Retailers (Anadegas) filed suit yesterday against two judges and the secretary of the Third Civil and Commercial Chamber of the Court of First Instance of the Judicial Department of Santo Domingo.
Luis Beltre Pujols, the owner of Gasoline Stations and Transportation (Estracom), complained that judges Ysabel Guzmán Paredes, presiding, Catalina de Jesus Abreu, judge, and Juana Frias, the court secretary, committed serious errors in the exercise of their duties in order to favor Johnny de la Rosa who was the lawyer of his company.
The plaintiff, who together with Anadegas, filed the suit before the Council of the Judicial Power, said that two contracts to recover debts for a fee (“cuota-litis”) had been signed with his then lawyer in order to participate in an auction were certified at the same time by the court without taking into consideration that in the subsequent tender process the bidder was Estracom and not Luis Beltre. He explained that based on this error, the court created a personal credit for Beltre Pujols and not the company. As a result, the judge ordered the embargo of the assets of both the company and the personal assets of Beltre Pujols, to the tune of RD $200 million.
Beltre Pujols told reporters: “What we are asking is for a thorough investigation in order to get to the bottom of the situation and if it is true that he says that I owe him, I will pay him in a more proper manner and not in front of that court.”
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Diario Libre
10 August 2017
