The Audit Chamber (Cámara de Cuentas) announced in a paid advertisement in Diario Libre that it received instructions on 21 April 2017, from Attorney General Jean Alain Rodriguez to carry out technical-financial audits of all public works projects completed or currently under construction by the Norberto Odebrecht firm. The audit will cover a period from 7 March 2001 to 14 April 2014.
The public works that are being audited are:
Northwest Aqueduct, Northwest Aqueduct expansion and the Samaná/Hermanas Mirabal province aqueduct managed by the National Potable Water and Sewage Institute (INAPA).
Also, the Pinalito Hydroelectric and the Punta Catalina Thermoelectric plants managed by the Public Electricity Corporation (CDEEE), the Palomino Hydroelectric managed by EgeHID. Also the Casabito (Constanza) road, Duarte Corridor, Coral Highway, La Romana Bypass, Jarabacoa River Road, Cibao Sur road, Bávaro-Miches-Sabana de la Mar road, Duarte Corridor II, Ecovias in Santiago, the Touristic Boulevard of the East (Punta Cana) and the San Pedro de Macorís-La Romana bypass road.
The Audit Chamber announced an exception in the start of the audit will be made in the case of the Punta Catalina thermoelectric plant. Punta Catalina will be audited once the construction is completed.
The public notice was signed by Audit Chamber presiding judge Hugo Francisco Alvarez Pérez, vice president Pedro Ortiz Hernandez, secretary Carlos Noes Tejada Diaz, and Felix Alvarez Rivera and Margarita Melenciano Corporán, members.
19 May 2017
