SANTO DOMINGO.-Businessman Antonio Espaillat, owner of the Jet Set nightclub, where one of the country's most tragic events occurred on April 8 of this year, leaving 236 dead, appeared this Thursday before the Prosecution Directorate of the Public Ministry and its head, Wilson Camacho, who is leading the investigation of the case.
The businessman arrived at the Attorney General's office accompanied by his sister, Maribel Espaillat, and his lawyer, Miguel Valerio, to attend the interrogation that will be conducted by Camacho, in coordination with the District Attorney of the National District, Rosalba Ramos, both in charge of the investigations of the case.
The collapse of the iconic nightclub also resulted in more than 180 people being injured.
On March 7, one day before the first month since the roof collapse, the Attorney General's Office seized the land, where the ruins of what was for more than 30 years a symbol of joy and entertainment in the National District remain.
So far, 66 legal actions have been filed, including 43 complaints and 23 lawsuits directed against businessman Antonio Espaillat and other shareholders of the establishment.
Yesterday, June 11, the special commission investigating the causes of the Jet Set collapse delivered to the Public Ministry the preliminary report on the causes that generated the tragedy.
The commission in charge of the expert assessment is made up of, in addition to engineer Madera, Professor Eduardo Fierro, forensic engineer from the University of California at Berkeley, United States; engineer Máximo Corominas, structural pathologist from the Eduardo Torroja Institute of Construction Sciences in Spain; engineer Marcos Paniagua Yost, with a master's degree from the Catholic University of Chile and engineer Remy Luciano, with a master's degree in earthquake-resistant engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University Madre y Maestra (PUCMM).
