Civil society entities and the Observatory for Public Policies of the state university, UASD want to determine if the Attorney General Office in the Dominican Republic and the Brazilian construction firm, Odebrecht, covered up information on bribes that were allegedly paid for the Punta Catalina thermoelectric plant.
Eurin Cuevas Medina and the president of the National Human Rights Commission, Manuel María Mercedes, said they have written to American, Brazilian and Swiss ambassadors to determine if Odebrecht had delivered to the Attorney General Office information on the US$39.5 million that new documentation links to bribes paid for the thermoelectric.
They say if it is determined the Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez covered up the information he could be taken to justice, even if it is in another administration.
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El Nacional
10 July 2019