“For this process, the entire procedure of the purchasing and contracting law 340-06 was violated; a multi-million dollar contract was made that was not registered in any of the bodies established by the law nor in the Comptroller General of the Republic,” the file says.
SANTO DOMINGO.– Former Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez and Jonathan Rodríguez Imbert allegedly signed a 19 million peso contract for the irregular acquisition of a property requested by the District Attorney of the National District, Rosalba Ramos, to relocate some departments of that prosecutor's office, according to court documents in the Medusa case.
The documentation states that the multi-million dollar contract “was not registered in any of the bodies established by law” and that in their actions, the former attorney general and Rodríguez Imbert engaged in a coalition of officials, Diario Libre states in a publication.
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The Medusa case file states it as follows: “The defendants Jean Alain Rodríguez Sánchez and Jonathan Rodríguez Imbert, in collusion with officials, signed a contract for the acquisition of a property, requested by the District Attorney of the National District, in the person of its head, Ms. Rosalba Ramos, to relocate some departments of that prosecutor's office and that it has spaces for parking, acquiring through a sales contract, a property of 696.49 square meters located in lot 8-REF-C, block 371, DC 01, located in the National District, for a value of 19 million pesos.”.
He also says: “For this process, the entire procedure of the purchasing and contracting law 340-06 was violated; a multi-million dollar contract was made that was not registered in any of the bodies established by the law nor in the Comptroller General of the Republic.”.
As evidence of this, the file mentions that the Public Prosecutor's Office has the file Imueble PGR-Eric FJ Mejía Almonte, from the Legal Directorate, which contains all the documentation, communications, minutes, copies of checks, among other information that demonstrate the alleged irregularities that were committed in that process.
The Medusa Network
The Medusa Case file states that former Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez and the other defendants were part of a corruption network that operated from the Attorney General's Office during the period 2016-2020 and defrauded the Dominican State of more than six billion pesos.
Jean Alain, Forteza Ibarra, Jonathan Rodríguez Imbert, and former deputy director Alfredo Alexander Solano Augusto are accused in the case.
Also included are engineer Jenny Marte, former Project Manager; former Deputy Director Altagracia Guillén Calzado; and Rafael Antonio Mercedes Marte, former Director of Accounting.
Also present were former advisor Miguel José Moya, Rafael Stefano Canó Sacco, the former Chief of Staff of former Attorney General Rodríguez; along with renowned businessmen and construction companies in the country.
The Public Prosecutor's Office asserts that the voluminous accusation of Operation Medusa "is unprecedented in the Dominican Republic... and possibly unprecedented in the entire region," because, in addition to the large number of defendants and companies involved, it also has 12,274 pages, and within those, more than 3,500 pieces of evidence and 400 witnesses.
