Judge Francisco Ortega Polanco set for 9am on 6 July 2018 the opening of the Odebrecht bribes case in the Dominican Republic. A New York City court case concluded in December 2016 that the Brazilian company executives had admitted to paying US$92 million in bribes to secure contract work in the Dominican Republic. In the New York court case, Odebrecht admitted to paying $439 million outside Brazil, with the largest foreign bribes paid out in Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, and Panama. Follow ups were begun then in each individual country.
Since January 2017, in the Dominican Republic the case is being handled by the Attorney General Office that on 7 June 2018 formally accused seven, including lobbyist Angel Rondón, lawyer Conrado Pittaluga and the five former government officers – senator Tommy Galán (San Cristóbal – PLD), former Public Works Minister Víctor Díaz Rúa, former PRD presidents of the Senate Andrés Bautista and Jesús Vásquez, and Juan Roberto Rodríguez, former director of the National Institute of Potable Water and Sewers (INAPA).
Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez acuses these of charges of taking bribes, prevarication, illicit enrichment, false statements and money laundering.
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Listin Diario
DW
21 June 2018
