Former San Francisco de Macoris mayor Felix Manuel Rodríguez Grullón appealed for getting a 5-year sentence, but lost the appeal. Now he needs to serve eight years in jail, for corruption in office, instead of five.
The Court of Appeals of Santo Domingo had convicted Felix Rodriguez, the former Mayor of San Francisco de Macoris, for the misappropriation and embezzlement regarding RD$400 million in irregular payments when he was in the position. The former official was ordered to serve his sentence at the Correctional and Rehabilitation Center “Vista del Valle” in San Francisco de Macoris. He was also sentenced to pay a RD$30 million peso fine, instead of the previous RD$5 million. Rodríguez is a PLD politician.
As part of the same case, Jerson Lizardo, the former personnel director at the Mayor’s office will have to serve five years in prison sentence at the same institution and payment of RD$10 million fine.
Another person involved, Fiordaliza Genao was sentenced to five years of house arrest. She had been discharged in the previous hearing.
The court handed down the sentence after reviewing appeals of a sentence given in December 2017 by the Second Collegiate Tribunal of Santo Domingo that had convicted Rodriguez to five years in prison. The first court argued that Rodriguez could only be convicted for administrative faults and not bribes or swindles, nor were the actions criminal association or acts of corruption that were added to the sentence in the Court of Appeals.
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12 November 2018
