Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito, said yesterday, Tuesday 13 November that he had not found any “material elements or indications that committed the penal responsibility of the former President Leonel Fernandez” in the complaint filed against him by the president of the Alianza Pais political party Guillermo Moreno for supposed acts of corruption. The Attorney General said that he believed that the judicial instrument “lacked a legal basis.” In a document sent to Diario Libre, Dominguez Brito states: “The existence of a fiscal deficit in the public sector does not imply, in and of itself, the commission of a crime on the part of those who exercised public functions.”
Last week Moreno filed a criminal complaint against the former President and two of his closest advisors: the former Minister of Public Works, Victor Diaz Rua, and the former director of the Presidency Supervisory Office of Public Works, the current senator for San Juan de la Maguana, Felix Bautista. He accused them of corruption that in his judgment caused the fiscal deficit of RD$187 billion.
At the start of the Medina administration, the Department for Administrative Corruption also filed other complaints that had been presented against government officials, including Senator Felix Bautista (PLD-San Juan de la Maguana) on the grounds that sufficient evidence was not presented.