The document mentions engineer Claudio Silver Peña, former director of the National Cadastre, who held that position from 2014 until August 16, 2020.
SANTO DOMINGO.- Twenty-five properties in protected areas have been identified by the public prosecutor's office as part of the schemes allegedly used by a network of former officials of the Danilo Medina administration, headed by former Finance Minister Donald Guerrero, whose operations allegedly defrauded the Dominican State of RD$17,300,642,051.07 .
According to the investigation being carried out by the Specialized Prosecutor's Office for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (PEPCA), details of which began to emerge yesterday, the group involved simulated the purchase and sale of land under the modality of administrative debts.
According to the investigation, 9 properties are located in Higuey, within the protected area of the East National Park (Cotubanamá); in Santo Domingo East on one of the lands where the Las Américas International Airport, José Francisco Peña Gómez, is located; in the National District on a maritime strip of the capital's Malecón; in Santo Domingo West within the lands where the Merca Santo Domingo was built; and in Cotuí, Sánchez Ramírez province.
These are the expropriated lands listed in the investigation:
-Molinera Oriental, parcel 115-REF, DC-6, Santo Domingo, for an amount of 53,895,000.00
-Commercial Society, Manuel María Velásquez and sons parcel 37-C Reformada 1, DC6, DN RD$ 361,280,250.00
-Successors of Benardino Mercedes, parcel 613, DC 32 in Boca Chica for RD$ 85,891,050.00
-Successors of José Antonio Concepcion, parcel 1-prov 1-prov A-1, 1-prov. A-2, DC5, Cotuí for RD$ 290,368,774.25
-Successors of Manuel Milciades Morilla Soto, parcel 5, DC11, Cotuí RD$ 669,480,750.00
-Heirs of Manuel Reyes y Comptes, parcel 613, DC32, Boca Chica RD$ 1,288,365,750.
-Heirs of Jorge Mota, parcel 10, DC10/01, Higüey RD$ 505,081,440.51.
-Heirs of Rafael María Gatón, parcel 20, DC10/02, RD$ 1,729,650,172.50.
-Pedro Landestoy Garrido, Luis Miguel Suárez Irrizarry, parcel 19, DC10/1st, Higüey RD$555,584,180.
-Heirs of Genaro Arturo Quiñones, parcel 19 DC10/1st, Higüey RD$ 92,544,500.00.
-Marcial Santana Guilamo and Sandra Xiomara Pereyra Cuello, parcel 18, DC 10/2nd, registration 3000205849, Higuey RD$ 1,072,204,300.20.
-El Algodonal, parcel 74-C, 214B and 142-C, DC2, DN RD$ 553,160,000.00.
-Geramén Gaton, Edwin R Gómez Gatón and Fátima E Gatón S, parcel 20, DC10/2nd RD$ 216,890,592.50.
-Mártires Santana, parcel 18-C, DC10/2nd, Higüey RD$ 78,607,000.00.
-Juan Julio Ceballo Santana, parcel 18-C, DC10/2nd, Higüey RD$393,019,800.00.
-Hermenegilda Santana, parcel 18-C, DC 10/2nd, Higüey RD$78,607,000.00.
-Heirs of Alessandra de Fdez. de Paola, parcel 9, DC 10/1st, Higüey RD$ 4,768,003,710.00.
-Heirs of Delia Reyes Escotto, parcel 613, DC: 32, National District RD$ 515,346,300.00
-Juan A. Acevedo, parcel 14, DC 10/1st, Higüey RD$ 3,198,281,243.84.
-Successors Francisca Toloparca Gaton, parcel 20, DC10/2nd, Higüey RD$ 1,527,396,110.00.
-Batessino Bruno Palamara Mieses, parcel 25 and 31, registrations 3000268421 and 3000268404, RD$708,411,318.00.
-Ana Agustina Evelin Luciano, DC: 3095531474705 RD$ 55,411,972.00.
-Freddy Armando Gil Portalatín and Verónica Hernández Susana, parcel DC: 3000268435 and 3000268420 RD$ 277,327,358.00
-Successors Enrique López/ Gloria Mercedes Abreu Valdez de López, Emperatriz Josefina López Abreu and Enrique Roberto López Abreu, parcel 31 of Cadastral District 8. Registration 3000268436 RD$ 137,835,167.00.
-Villa Mella Recreation Farm, parcel 1-ref-E-2 and 1-ref-3, DC: 2nd, municipality of Santo Domingo Norte. Registration 3000238561 and 3000201851 RD$ 441,227,775.00.
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The document mentions engineer Claudio Silver Peña, former director of the National Cadastre, who held that position between September 15, 2014, and August 16, 2020. It also mentions Belkis Tejada Ramírez, former legal director of National Assets, who was also responsible for registration and analysis.
They also named Rolando Méndez Morillo, surveyor for Administrative Debt, and Oscar Ramón Ortiz de la Rosa, who served as surveyor for Public Debt and was officially the coordinator of the National Titling Plan for the Directorate of National Assets, where he also served as an advisor. Rafael Geraldo Collado Ventura, surveyor for National Assets, was also mentioned.
Joaquín Ernesto Tavares Cabral, surveyor for the administrative debt recognition division and internal auditor for the Comptroller General's Office. Several names from the same family appear in the investigation.
The total number of those mentioned amounts to 32, along with more than a dozen companies and an extensive list of those under investigation.
Magistrate Romero instructed the prosecutors to collect, together with the regulatory entities of the Dominican financial and banking system, documents, reports and information that support the history and financial management of 183 more people, as well as 26 companies or commercial entities.
