{"id":167502,"date":"2021-11-02T09:23:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T13:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=167502"},"modified":"2021-11-02T10:52:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T14:52:26","slug":"alicia-ortega-victoria-yeb-is-major-government-supplier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/11\/02\/alicia-ortega-victoria-yeb-is-major-government-supplier\/","title":{"rendered":"Alicia Ortega: Victoria Yeb is major government supplier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Investigative journalist Alicia Ortega denounced during her Monday, 1 November report, that businesses related to senator Alexis Victoria Yeb (PRM-Maria Trinidad S\u00e1nchez) have carried out transactions for RD$500 million with the Dominican government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victoria Yeb is the same senator who has led a movement in the Senate that drafted a bill that would remove tax exemptions and perks received by the senators from other government officers and private business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Alicia Ortega revealed that the company Cristalia Dominicana S.A., with ties to the senator, and Drodena S.A., listed in his sworn statement of assets, have sold more than US$516.5 million in pharmaceutical and medical products to the government since the legislator took office on 16 August 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alicia Ortega revealed this Monday, 1 November 2021 that Cristalia Dominicana from August to December 2020 sold more than RD$7.2 million sold to the state, while in the 10 months of this year the company won public contracting procedures for RD$470.5 million pesos. The supplies were dispatched to 14 hospitals, the 911 Emergency System, the Essential Medicines Program (Promese) and Central Logistical Support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of these, more than RD$446 million in 5 contracts fell under emergency, urgency or sole supplier contracting modality to supply Promese\/Cal with high-cost medicines or to combat Covid-19, and expendable material for vaccinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Investigative journalist Alicia Ortega denounced during her Monday, 1 November report, that businesses related to senator Alexis Victoria Yeb (PRM-Maria Trinidad S\u00e1nchez) have carried out transactions for RD$500 million with the Dominican government. Victoria Yeb is the same senator who has led a movement in the Senate that drafted a bill that would remove tax … <\/p>\n

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