Nuria Piera dedicated a section of her Saturday evening investigative journalism TV show on Channel 9 to give evidence of what she describes as intertwining companies leading to close relatives of President Danilo Medina that have irregularly benefited from government procurement.
She presented evidence of a long trail of possible corruption in government procurement that she ties to President Danilo Medina’s brothers and sisters, especially to his younger brother Juan Alexis Medina Sánchez.
Aired with less than two weeks of the Medina administration remaining, the report reveals how allegedly Medina’s brother is part of many companies that won tenders for government procurement. She reveals that overpriced wins of government contracts occurred even during the Covid National State of Emergency.
She also focuses on how companies related to Medina benefited from government contracting from the Capitalized Fund of Reformed State Enterprises (Fonper), the government division in charge of assets remaining from the privatizations during the Leonel Fernandez governments. There, Carmen Magaly Medina Sanchez, a sister to President Medina, is the director, and a niece is another high ranking officer. She presents photos of how Juan Alexis Medina lived before and after his brother was elected President of the Republic.
Juan Alexis Medina was well known for his promotional campaigns for his brother — Tornado con Danilo and later Tornado con Gonzalo, when Gonzalo Castillo was the chosen PLD presidential candidate.
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3 August 2020