Euclides Sánchez, director of the Oficina de Ingenieros Supervisores de Obras del Estado, the office at the Presidency that supervises government construction, and candidate for senator at La Vega for the government party, visited Attorney General Abel Rodríguez del Orbe, after the former contractor of the remodeling and expansion works at the La Victoria jail accused him of irregularities in the handling of resources. In the complaint, engineer Maximino Brito said ther ehave been anomalities in Sánchez’s handling of funds at his disposition through the office of engineers that supervise government works. Sánchez recently rescinded Eng. Brito’s contract for completion of works at La Victoria, after a request from the Attorney General himself, who said that the jail was behind in its construction schedule and that Brito owed suppliers RD$12 million. The Victoria jail is the nation’s largest, housing some 3,000 inmates. Attorney General Rodríguez del Orbe requested that the Armed Forces complete the jail construction. The Armed Forces have worked on the jail installations in San Pedro de Macorís and San Francisco de Macorís.
