“We always act transparently, and that will be seen when the process is ready to go to court,” said Wilson Camacho.
SANTO DOMINGO. - Angel Lockward, who appears as one of the alleged beneficiaries of payment orders in the network that defrauded the State, according to an investigation by the Specialized Prosecutor's Office for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca), denounced that the reports contained in the public ministry document are based on false audits.
Today, the head of the Pepca, Wilson Camacho, responded to the lawyer and former Minister of Industry and Commerce, assuring that all the information they possess about the network that embezzled more than 17 billion pesos from the State and that is supposedly headed by the former Minister of Finance, Donald Guerrero, was sent to them by the corresponding official institutions and by their incumbents, as is customary in all the investigations they carry out and have submitted to the justice system.
Ángel Lockward, of Ángel Lockward & Associates, allegedly received 74.1 million pesos from the payment releases made for land expropriations and assignments of administrative debt credits that exceed RD$17,300,642,051.07.
In opinion pieces published in Listín Diario, Lockward said that the reports on which Pepca bases its case, and which Judge Kenya Romero, coordinator of the investigating courts, authorized financial entities to provide information on those involved to the authorities, are based on audit reports that have been declared false by the comptroller.
“We don’t give details about open investigations; however, everyone who knows us knows that all the information we use in all our processes is information received officially from the corresponding institutions and their officials, and this case is no exception. We always act transparently, and that will be evident when the process is ready to go to court,” Camacho stated.
The director of the Specialized Prosecutor's Office for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca) declined to offer further details of the ongoing investigation against former Finance Minister Donald Guerrero, Simón Lizardo Mézquita, former administrator of BanResrevas, and 182 other individuals, as well as 26 companies. "We always act transparently, and that will be evident when the case is ready to go to court," he stated.
Other former officials involved in the alleged network include Emilio César Rivas Rodríguez, former director of National Assets; Claudio Silver Peña, former national director of Cadastre; Luis Miguel Piccirillo McCabe and Domingo Enrique Martínez Reyes, from the State Sugar Council; Luis Baldemiro Reyes Santos, former director of Budget; Daniel Omar de Jesús Caamaño Santana, former comptroller general of the Republic; and Princea Alexandra García Medina and Aldo Antonio Gerbasi Fernández, from the Directorate of Public Debt Recognition, among others.
