{"id":111989,"date":"2018-05-08T14:23:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T18:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=111989"},"modified":"2018-05-08T14:23:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T18:23:59","slug":"julio-martinez-pozo-and-dany-alcantara-investigated-in-odebrecht-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/05\/08\/julio-martinez-pozo-and-dany-alcantara-investigated-in-odebrecht-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Julio Mart\u00ednez Pozo and Dany Alc\u00e1ntara investigated in Odebrecht case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dany Alc\u00e1ntara and Julio Mart\u00ednez Pozo at a Press Conference \/ 7 D\u00edas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Popular news commentators Julio Mart\u00ednez Pozo and Dany Alc\u00e1ntara are in the limelight, after the Attorney General announced they are investigating these two for their ties with Angel Rond\u00f3n, the commercial representative of Odebrecht who has admitted to having received around US$92 million in payment for his services to the company. Odebrecht had admitted to paying US$92 million in bribes in the Dominican Republic to expedite the granting of contract work. The radio and TV commentators are best known for their defense of government actions.<\/p>\n

The Attorney General Office made public it had obtained permission from Supreme Court special instruction judge Francisco Ortega Polanco to investigate Alcantara and Martinez and their relatives for possibly having served as Rondon in the distribution of the payments to government officers and former officers in the name of Odebrecht. The announcement by the Attorney General Office comes when the deadline for the presenting of the case against Odebrecht is nearing on 9 June 2018. The Attorney General Office will have had a year to prepare the case, including a four-month extension granted in February 2018.<\/p>\n

In a press conference at the Dominican Journalists Guild (Colegio Dominicano de Periodistas), Mart\u00ednez and Alc\u00e1ntara accused Attorney General Jean Alain Rodr\u00edguez of acting as an associate of Odebrecht when not investigating the supposed bribes also paid by the Odebrecht associate companies for the 17 projects carried in the country from 2001 to 2014.<\/p>\n

Rafael N\u00fa\u00f1ez, former press spokesman for former President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez, said the investigation is part of a supposed dirty campaign carried out in the inside of the ruling PLD party by persons loyal to President Danilo Medina and against Fern\u00e1ndez.<\/p>\n

The Attorney General Office is investigating 14 persons in the bribes scandal for actions that occurred during the governments of Hip\u00f3lito Mejia (2000-2004), and Leonel Fernandez (2004-2012). All of the former government officers accused in the case were authorized to post bail, with the exception of lawyer Conrad Pittaluga who is on domiciliary arrest.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, an editorial in Diario Libre alerts to the manipulation of the media by the government. \u201cThat is the reason for the multimillion investment of the Administration in advertising and \u2018other expenses\u2019 that include a bulging payroll of those that the people call \u2018loudspeakers\u2019. \u201cIt is evident that someone is manipulating the national agenda and it is not the media that are simply acting as loudspeakers of the music that someone else is playing,\u201d says the editorial on 8 May 2018. Diario Libre calls for the press to fulfill its role and not fall into the trap of the manipulators.<\/p>\n

As reported, on Sunday, 6 May 2018, the Attorney General\u2019s Office issued a statement saying that all of those involved in the investigation surrounding the Odebrecht case should cooperate with the authorities.<\/p>\n

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Popular news commentators Julio Mart\u00ednez Pozo and Dany Alc\u00e1ntara are in the limelight, after the Attorney General announced they are investigating these two for their ties with Angel Rond\u00f3n, the commercial representative of Odebrecht who has admitted to having received around US$92 million in payment for his services to the company. Odebrecht had admitted to … <\/p>\n

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