There is speculation of an agreement between President Luis Abinader and former President Danilo Medina. Relatives of Medina are in a lengthy Anti-Pulpo accusation file that for weeks made the headlines in the Dominican Republic with scandalous revelations of billions in corrupt deals. Now, most of the accused are home or being sent to domiciliary arrest as the trial slowly advances in the judiciary system.
Gustavo Sanchez, deputy for the former ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) and Victor Suarez of the PLD dissident party, the People’s Force (FP) of former President Leonel Fernandez celebrated the measure in their comments to Hoy newspaper.
On Monday, 29 August 2022, Judge Delby Timoteo Peguero of the Seventh Court of Instruction of the National District changed the pre-trial preventive imprisonment order and allowed Juan Alexis Medina, Fernando Rosa and Jose Dolores Santana Carmona to post bail, electronic shackling and await the trial at home.
Faride Raful of the ruling Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) is confident prosecutors will continue to work so there is a final sentencing of the accused. “The judicial process has to continue; absolutely no one has been freed. The Public Prosecutor’s Office will continue working and deepening the investigation until a trial is reached and a conviction is obtained for the damage done to government money,” said Raful.
Several other extensive accusatory cases are in the judiciary, with those accused and ordered to jail awaiting that their pre-trial rulings to also be varied, as has now occurred in the Anti-Pulpo case, one of the first.
Danilo Diaz of the PLD told Hoy that the intent has been to discredit the former ruling political party, not to seek justice.
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31 August 2022