{"id":196545,"date":"2023-04-17T08:26:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T12:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=196545"},"modified":"2023-04-18T08:57:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T12:57:23","slug":"merido-torres-is-replaced-at-utect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/04\/17\/merido-torres-is-replaced-at-utect\/","title":{"rendered":"Merido Torres is replaced at UTECT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Duarte-Mendez-Pen\u0303a-Listin-Diario-e1681739164818.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-196643\"\/><figcaption>Duarte Mendez Pe\u00f1a \/ Listin Diario<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>President Luis Abinader appointed Duarte M\u00e9ndez Pe\u00f1a as interim director of the State Land Titling Technical Executing Unit (UTECT). He replaces M\u00e9rido Torres, who has requested a leave of absence after he was repeatedly mentioned as part of irregularities by witnesses in the Operation Squid (Operaci\u00f3n Calamar) government corruption case. Torres presented his leave of absence after the director of the Abinader administration department of ethics, former Vice President Milagros Ortiz Bosch said that he should already have done so in order to clear his name in the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Presidency issued Decree 159-23 with the appointment of Duarte M\u00e9ndez Pe\u00f1a.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Torres is questioned for his participation in state expropriation cases. Although he does not appear as a defendant, Torres is mentioned in the document issued by the Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office, for allegedly having received from former Minister of Hacienda Donald Guerrero, a payment of RD$32,065,992 for a land expropriation in which he acted as a lawyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Torres assured that his participation in the expropriation case was merely as a professional lawyer. He denied abuse of power in the institution he headed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/presidencia.gob.do\/decretos\/159-23\">Presidency <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/titulacion.gob.do\/\">UTECT <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/designan-a-duarte-mendez-como-director-interino-titulacion\/\">Hoy <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 April 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Luis Abinader appointed Duarte M\u00e9ndez Pe\u00f1a as interim director of the State Land Titling Technical Executing Unit (UTECT). He replaces M\u00e9rido Torres, who has requested a leave of absence after he was repeatedly mentioned as part of irregularities by witnesses in the Operation Squid (Operaci\u00f3n Calamar) government corruption case. Torres presented his leave of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/04\/17\/merido-torres-is-replaced-at-utect\/\" 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":[319,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196545"}],"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=196545"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196724,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196545\/revisions\/196724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}