{"id":182009,"date":"2022-07-11T08:44:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T12:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=182009"},"modified":"2022-07-11T09:05:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T13:05:58","slug":"weekend-news-focuses-on-the-jean-alain-rodriguez-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/07\/11\/weekend-news-focuses-on-the-jean-alain-rodriguez-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend news focuses on the Jean Alain Rodr\u00edguez case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As journalists and citizens delved into the Medusa accusatory file, made available to the general public over the weekend, detail after detail of accusations of corruption in office are coming to the surface. The case that is unraveling for everyone to read and follow is the story of the influential government officer who resorted to his high school pals to orchestrate purchases and carry out projects marked by overpricing, non-deliveries, fraud and you name it to extort money from the state. Jean Alain Rodr\u00edguez S\u00e1nchez was named executive director of the CEI-RD today Pro Dominicana) from 2012 to 2016 and then Attorney General from 2016-2020 during the eight years of the Danilo Medina presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the investigators probed, the close friends and associates that accepted to be part of the major fraud to the state have talked, returned millions in illicitly acquired assets and put the blame on the methods to do business allegedly directed by the former Attorney General Jean Alain Rodr\u00edguez S\u00e1nchez. The defense of Rodr\u00edguez S\u00e1nchez has insisted the government doesn\u2019t have evidence to incriminate the chief defendant, but story after story over the weekend presents dozens of persons who benefited from the scam and are now more than willing to tell on what was going on to reach deals with the prosecutors and be removed from the criminal accusations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the collaborators of the Attorney General’s Office is Rafael Stefano Cano Sacco, who was the right hand of the former attorney general and chief of staff of the Attorney General’s Office. Cano Sacco is currently under arrest in Spain after leaving the country at the beginning of the investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enrique Ernesto Bonetti Galv\u00e1n, Paul Mart\u00edn Hasb\u00fan Salad\u00edn and the engineer Ant\u00f3n Casasnovas were similar whistleblowers. Casanova revealed that Jean Alain Rodr\u00edguez had to be paid 20% of the works that were being carried out, and in cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 40 witnesses who collaborated with the investigation, according to the file, including testimonies of personnel of the Center for Export and Investment of the Dominican Republic (CEI-RD) and of the Attorney General’s Office, where he had been the head in the period 2012-2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to accusations of major corruption in the La Nueva Victoria Jail, the former attorney general is accused of working with his cronies on a network involving procurement for the public jails. Just in procurement for the prisoners\u2019 food, Rodriguez Sanchez is accused of profiteering from RD$1.6 billion, through Rolando Rafael Sebel\u00e9n Torres (alias Rafy), husband of his sister Ariadne Aimee Rodr\u00edguez S\u00e1nchez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While most of the file focuses on Rodriguez Sanchez\u2019s term at the Attorney General Office, there is also extensive accusations of fraudulent and irregular actions when he was first named to the CEI-RD when Danilo Medina took the Presidency in 2012. He is accused of wasteful spending and detouring funds to be used for political purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the weekend, a letter circulated with the handwritten approval of former President Danilo Medina for the Jail Humanization Plan, the most extensive fraud mechanism investigated by the current prosecutors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As journalists and citizens delved into the Medusa accusatory file, made available to the general public over the weekend, detail after detail of accusations of corruption in office are coming to the surface. The case that is unraveling for everyone to read and follow is the story of the influential government officer who resorted to … <\/p>\n

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