{"id":180142,"date":"2022-06-07T08:43:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T12:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=180142"},"modified":"2022-06-07T09:06:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T13:06:44","slug":"judges-absolve-those-accused-in-the-los-tres-brazos-corruption-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/06\/07\/judges-absolve-those-accused-in-the-los-tres-brazos-corruption-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Judges absolve those accused in the Los Tres Brazos corruption case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Los Tres Brazos corruption case is the third major corruption case prepared by prosecutors named under former Attorney General Jean Alain Rodr\u00edguez in which those accused are acquitted. The Los Tres Brazos case, follows the absolving in the Odebrecht and Super Tucanos (Embraer) cases. The issue at hand is not the evidence, it is how the evidence has been presented by the prosecutors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Los Tres Brazos case, Judge Juan Francisco Rodr\u00edguez Consor\u00f3 rejected the accusations presented by the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca) against the accused for bribery, coalition of officials and association of wrongdoers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judge indicated, in motivating his decision, that the accusations presented by Pepca did not contain sufficient merits for the accusations to be heard in trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This judge understands that according to the evidence presented and the factual accounts developed by the Public Ministry in its accusations, it is impossible, for me, perhaps for another judge and for the Court (of Appeal), but my criteria, according to the reasoning, to give a decision and what I see, that there is no probability of conviction, which is what the judge of the preliminary hearing sees,” maintained Judge Rodr\u00edguez Consoro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the evidence offer, for example, the judge of the Sixth Court of the Instruction of the National District, said there was no way to prove the criminal type of bribery by the evidence presented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The accusations are ambiguous, imprecise as to that\u2026 as per the evidence and the configuration of the type, this judge understands that for that criminal type there is no proof,” he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The accused in the Los Tres Brazos case, which came to court in July 2018, were: Leoncio Alm\u00e1nzar, former director of the Corporaci\u00f3n Dominicana de Empresas Estatales (Corde); Manuel Aybar, former real estate manager of that entity; Irving Cruz, former legal consultant, and Rosabel Castillo, former title registrar of the National District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, Juana G\u00f3mez, representative of Proyecciones Gowi; Domingo Lebr\u00f3n, president of Inversiones Fern\u00e1ndez Parache y Asociados (Infepa), together with the employees of that company Carlos G\u00f3mez and Julio G\u00f3mez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also indicted were Jos\u00e9 de Pool, representative of the real estate company Titulatec; the surveyors Ana Ozuna and Hadonis Ruiz, as well as Lisetel Gonz\u00e1lez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Public Prosecutor’s Office says it will appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more in Spanish:
El Caribe<\/a>
Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

7 June 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Los Tres Brazos corruption case is the third major corruption case prepared by prosecutors named under former Attorney General Jean Alain Rodr\u00edguez in which those accused are acquitted. The Los Tres Brazos case, follows the absolving in the Odebrecht and Super Tucanos (Embraer) cases. The issue at hand is not the evidence, it is … <\/p>\n

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