Somos Pueblo online news service says that the chairman of the board of the Dominican Stock Market Board, José Gregorio (Gregory) Salcedo Llibre, is the president of the Value Added Finance Incorporated (codename Tigres) company that, according to an investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, received secret payments from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht in the Americas. Value Added Finance is on the list of companies included in the files leaked and reportedly received US$500,000 in transactions from the Structured Operations Division of Odebrecht handling bribe payments, as revealed by a New York Court case.
In a feature, the Somos Pueblo online news service asks if Salcedo Llibre should follow the example of the deputy administrator for governmental business at BanReservas, Jose Manuel Guzmán Ibarra, who resigned his position. Guzman Ibarra is on the same list as owner of Grupo Sophus Lanx, another company associated to covert payments by Odebrecht.
Prior to his position at the Stock Market Board, Gregory Salcedo was external financial advisor to the Public Electricity Corporation (CDEEE) for the Punta Catalina thermoelectric power plant bidding progress, together with Magín Díaz, Carlos Contreras, Carmen Zaida Díaz, Danilo Santos and Manuel Rodríguez, from 18 June 2013 to the awarding of the contract to Odebrecht on 18 November 2013, reports Somos Pueblo.
Somos Pueblo reports that once the commission authorized the deal, the current president of the Dominican Stock Market received a secret payment of US$500,000.
Previously, Salcedo Llibre was vice-president of Corporate Finance & Capital Markets of Citigroup Dominican Republic, where he was handling deals such as mergers and acquisitions, securitizations and structured financing.
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