Lawyer Franklin García Fermín, former rector of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) has asked the Central Electoral Board (JCE) to explain to the country who were the people and institutions sent to face justice for the purchase of useless electronic equipment for US$35.2 million. Garcia Fermin said it was surprising to learn that the JCE had paid off the debt to Indra, the Spanish company that supplied the goods, when the last he had heard about a report stating that the machines did not work and that there was a lawsuit against Indra.
He said that it was a crime that in a country where hospitals have neither sufficient medicines nor equipment and children are going hungry, that the JCE had paid more than RD$700 million for practically useless equipment which was not used in the past elections nor will be in the next ones.
It appears that not only did the JCE pay off the debt, but they are paying US$15,500 a month to store the devices, according to the report in Hoy.
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Hoy
8 May 2019