{"id":109182,"date":"2018-02-07T10:30:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T14:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=109182"},"modified":"2018-02-07T10:30:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T14:30:38","slug":"maldonado-denies-lunching-with-rondon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/02\/07\/maldonado-denies-lunching-with-rondon\/","title":{"rendered":"Maldonado denies lunching with Rond\u00f3n"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_109160\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109160\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-109160\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Ruben-Maldonado-Listin-Diario-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruben Maldonado \/ List\u00edn Diario<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The president of the Chamber of Deputies, PLD deputy Rub\u00e9n Maldonado, has denied the rumor circulating on social media that he met with businessman \u00c1ngel Rond\u00f3n yesterday. There is a photograph of Rond\u00f3n meeting with his lawyers and journalist Danny Alc\u00e1ntara, while having lunch at a capital city restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>Alc\u00e1ntara confirmed the version of Maldonado saying that yes Maldonado was at the same restaurant but was having lunch with his wife and other family members, and that he greeted him and former deputy Ruddy Gonzalez as well as Rond\u00f3n and his lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>Alc\u00e1ntara said that the appointment was made by Rond\u00f3n\u2019s lawyers to go through their defense plan. Rond\u00f3n is a lead suspect in the Odebrecht bribery scandal, who has acknowledged he received a sum around the US$92 million bribe figure mentioned in a New York, USA court, but has claimed this was in payment for his services as commercial representative of Odebrecht in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n<p>On 2 February 2018, Diario Libre carried a report from the Attorney General that it had requested from the Tax Agency (DGII) information on 74 companies linked to Rond\u00f3n in the Dominican Republic and the latter\u2019s tax returns from 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2018\/02\/06\/501639\/danny-alcantara-dice-maldonado-no-se-reunio-con-rondon-coincidieron-en-restaurante\" target=\"_blank\">Listin Diario<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/noticias\/justicia\/procurador-pide-a-la-dgii-informes-de-74-empresas-que-vincula-a-rondon-HN9096584\" target=\"_blank\">Diario Libre<\/a><\/p>\n<p>7 February 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president of the Chamber of Deputies, PLD deputy Rub\u00e9n Maldonado, has denied the rumor circulating on social media that he met with businessman \u00c1ngel Rond\u00f3n yesterday. There is a photograph of Rond\u00f3n meeting with his lawyers and journalist Danny Alc\u00e1ntara, while having lunch at a capital city restaurant. Alc\u00e1ntara confirmed the version of Maldonado &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/02\/07\/maldonado-denies-lunching-with-rondon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}