Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez gave a brief press conference on Thursday, 18 May 2017, to announce that all the documents in the Dominican Odebrecht bribery case file received from Brazil are going to be public, including testimonies. “There will be consequences, there will be names, there will be last names, and individuals will be charged with crimes in the coming days,” he said. He called on the Dominicans not to despair because, he said, haste is never a requisite for a thorough investigation.
Rodriguez said that each of the documents needs to be scanned so that they can be placed online where they can be read. The scanning and uploading of the documents will take a few days. He said this gesture of transparency is obligatory for the justice system in the country.
In a report published in Diario Libre today, lawyer Carlos Pimentel of the Green March movement alerts that a difference needs to be made between the information to be provided by the Public Ministry of Brazil and that provided by Odebrecht. “The information coming from the Brazil prosecutors probably include details to advance the investigations on the bribes, the kinds of overpricing and the illegal financing of election campaign”, he stated. He added that the information Odebrecht is delivering is specifically on the bribes.
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Diario Libre
Diario Libre
19 May 2017
