{"id":151919,"date":"2021-01-07T06:25:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T10:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=151919"},"modified":"2021-01-07T09:35:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T13:35:51","slug":"limelight-on-appointment-of-former-police-chief-in-abinader-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/01\/07\/limelight-on-appointment-of-former-police-chief-in-abinader-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Limelight on appointment of former Police chief in Abinader government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"493\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Jaime-Marte-Martinez-Keloke-Twitter-e1610026543128.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-151955\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After President Luis Abinader appointed Jaime Marte Mart\u00ednez the president of the National Drug Council, the press was prompt to recall the missing vehicles scandal when the latter served as Police chief.<br>Marte Mart\u00ednez was police chief during the last two years of former President Hip\u00f3lito Mej\u00eda&#8217;s administration, from 2 January 2002 to 16 August 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marte Mart\u00ednez was subsequently accused of having in his possession 15 vehicles that had been recovered by the Police but not returned to the original owners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When questioned by the press, Marte Mart\u00ednez said that the justice system had cleared him of the claims. Marte Mart\u00ednez had kept a low profile until his appointment to the position in the Abinader cabinet. Journalist Altagracia Salazar speculated that the appointment was part of the political deals reached between Abinader and Mej\u00eda, past contenders for the ruling Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) presidential nomination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/medioambiente\/duquesa-el-costo-millonario-de-un-proyecto-que-no-avanzo-AO18704466\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 January 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After President Luis Abinader appointed Jaime Marte Mart\u00ednez the president of the National Drug Council, the press was prompt to recall the missing vehicles scandal when the latter served as Police chief.Marte Mart\u00ednez was police chief during the last two years of former President Hip\u00f3lito Mej\u00eda&#8217;s administration, from 2 January 2002 to 16 August 2004. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/01\/07\/limelight-on-appointment-of-former-police-chief-in-abinader-government\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151919"}],"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=151919"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151956,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151919\/revisions\/151956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}