{"id":165953,"date":"2021-10-06T08:05:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T12:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=165953"},"modified":"2021-10-06T09:33:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T13:33:10","slug":"enmanuel-esquea-disputes-government-continue-to-pay-shadow-tolls-for-samana-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/10\/06\/enmanuel-esquea-disputes-government-continue-to-pay-shadow-tolls-for-samana-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Enmanuel Esquea disputes government continue to pay shadow tolls for Samana highway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Peaje-Sombra-Diario-Libre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-166008\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Peaje-Sombra-Diario-Libre.jpg 546w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Peaje-Sombra-Diario-Libre-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The government has budgeted RD$4.65 billion in shadow toll payments on the Samana toll highway in the 2022 National Budget Bill. Diario Libre follows up interviewing Enmanuel Esquea, the lawyer the Abinader administration hired to review the legality of the road concession contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As reported, Esquea understands the government would win a legal case in court against the beneficiaries of the controversial contract. He says he recommended the contract be submitted to the Public Ministry and that the government seek the authorization of a judge to take over the toll operation and not continue making the onerous payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe government should not pay another cent on that contract. The concessionaire owes the Dominican government,\u201d Esquea told Diario Libre. He said criminal elements mire the contract. The contract was first signed during the government of former President Hip\u00f3lito Mej\u00eda and then amended during the government of former President Leonel Fernandez. Mej\u00eda is a high-ranking officer in the ruling Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/economia\/esquea-sugirio-al-pe-llevar-a-la-justicia-contrato-samana-MN29171872\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/2021\/10\/05\/major-allocations-for-samana-highway-is-included-in-2022-budget\/\">DR1 News <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 October 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has budgeted RD$4.65 billion in shadow toll payments on the Samana toll highway in the 2022 National Budget Bill. Diario Libre follows up interviewing Enmanuel Esquea, the lawyer the Abinader administration hired to review the legality of the road concession contract. As reported, Esquea understands the government would win a legal case in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/10\/06\/enmanuel-esquea-disputes-government-continue-to-pay-shadow-tolls-for-samana-highway\/\" 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\/165953"}],"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=165953"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166009,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165953\/revisions\/166009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}