The president of the Audit Chamber of the Dominican Republic (CCRD), Hugo Álvarez Pérez has announced that the institution will start to take all the necessary measures to discover what types of irregularities there were in the works built by the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, in a response to a request made by Attorney General, Jean Rodríguez. The company has carried out 17 important infrastructure projects from 2001 to 2016.
He said that they would carry out a forensic audit looking at the objectivity, quality and professionalism and to determine if the works were overvalued, as suspected by many experts. Álvarez Pérez explained the audit was a highly technical process that would take some time and need highly qualified professionals to perform the audit. These requirements have prompted the CCRD to enter into discussions with organizations and agencies in other countries to provide experts to assess the team of auditors the Dominican Audit Chamber had appointed to do the task.
Alvarez said that two expert Brazilian auditors will assist the Audit Chamber. He told the press he requested assistance from the Organización Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Entidades Fiscalizadoras Superiores (Olacefs).
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El Nuevo Diario
Diario Libre
25 April 2017
