On Gustavo Mejía Ricart Avenue, a 175.31 square meter premises were occupied in the Galerías Residenciales Building, Ensanche Julieta, and a 235 square meter apartment, located in the Torre Gabriela XIX Condominium.
SANTO DOMINGO- Among the assets seized last week by the Public Ministry from the former Attorney General of the Republic, Jean Alain Rodríguez, as part of Operation Medusa, are a tourist villa in Bahía Chavón, Romana, with an area of 2,192.45 square meters and a plot of land of 3,366 square meters in Vista Lagos, in addition to a warehouse and a mooring position in La Marina de Casa de Campo.
In the National District, the Specialized Prosecutor's Office for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca) yesterday seized an office floor in the Solazar Tower, located at 54 Gustavo Mejía Ricart Avenue, with an area of 652 square meters and several parking spaces. The property was acquired by the company Jurinvest Abogados, owned by Rodríguez Sánchez, on October 12, 2020, at a cost of US$800,000, according to today's edition of the newspaper El Día.
Furthermore, on the same avenue, the morning paper adds, a 175.31 square meter premises were occupied in the Galerías Residenciales Building, Ensanche Julieta, and a 235 square meter apartment, located in the Torre Gabriela XIX Condominium.
On Tuesday of this week, the Second Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeals of the National District rejected a request for release filed by former Attorney General Rodríguez Sánchez.
Judges Isis Muñiz Almonte, Luis Omar Jiménez Rosa and Rosalba Gariz made the decision considering that the Public Ministry deposited with the court the evidence of the actions of members of the defendant's Defense Council focused on intimidating and threatening witnesses.
The Medusa Case file establishes that former Attorney General Rodríguez Sánchez and the other defendants were part of a criminal corruption network that operated from the Attorney General's Office during the period 2016-2020 and that, according to preliminary estimates, defrauded the Dominican State of more than 6 billion pesos.
The assets seized yesterday
"What happened today was a seizure process; three properties were seized in the National District, all with judicial authorization... today two offices and one property were seized; they were seized, not raided, which means that these assets will go to a process so that a judge can decide on the confiscation," said the director of the Pepca, Wilson Camacho, who assured that they were acquired with public funds.
“We have identified an unprecedented corruption scheme in the Dominican Republic, something simply scandalous, money stolen from the Dominican treasury that has been used to acquire assets, and the Public Prosecutor's Office is using every available second to recover them,” Camacho said.
Camacho stated that the Public Prosecutor's Office is using every available second to recover the stolen assets. "You can rest assured that we will dedicate time to ensure that every peso stolen from the public treasury is recovered at this stage of the process," Camacho added.
