The group is charged with collusion of officials, prevarication, criminal association, bribery, fraud against the Dominican State, embezzlement, forgery, use of false documents and money laundering.
SANTO DOMINGO.- The Public Prosecutor's Office requested yesterday, Monday, the imposition of 18 months of preventive detention against ten people arrested in the framework of Operation Cobra for allegedly " defrauding the Dominican State of billions of pesos from the National Health Insurance (SeNaSa) ."
Santiago Marcelo F. Hazim Albainy, former director of SeNaSa, heads the group of defendants that also includes Rafael Luis Martínez Hazim, Gustavo Enrique Messina Cruz, Germán Rafael Robles Quiñones, Francisco Iván Minaya Pérez, Eduardo Read Estrella, Cinty Acosta Sención, Ramón Alan Speakler Mateo, Ada Ledesma Ubiera and Heidi Mariela Pineda Perdomo.
Prosecutors Rosa Garcia, Enmanuel Ramirez, Hector Garcia, Yudelka Holguin, Aurelio Valdez, Alexis Piña and Ernesto Guzman filed the document requesting the Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of the National District to impose preventive detention and declare the case as complex, explains a press release from the prosecuting body.
Hector Garcia stated that the defendants defrauded SeNaSa of at least 15 billion pesos.
The General Directorate of Prosecution of the Public Ministry and the Specialized Prosecutor's Office for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca), headed by Deputy Prosecutor Wilson Camacho, and Court Prosecutor Mirna Ortiz, are in charge of the investigations that are still in process.
Among other crimes, the group is charged with collusion of officials, prevarication, criminal association, bribery, fraud against the Dominican State, embezzlement, forgery, use of false documents and money laundering.
