Santo Domingo.- The Public Prosecutor’s Workplace has requested 18 months of pretrial detention for ten people accused of embezzling billions of pesos from the Nationwide Well being Insurance coverage (SeNaSa) by Operation Cobra. The group is led by former SeNaSa director Santiago Marcelo F. Hazim Albainy and consists of former officers and collaborators allegedly concerned in a large-scale corruption community.

Prosecutors filed the request earlier than the Workplace of Everlasting Consideration Companies within the Nationwide District, asking the court docket to declare the case complicated because of the magnitude of the fraud. In keeping with prosecutor Héctor García, the defendants are accused of defrauding the Dominican State of a minimum of 15 billion pesos by coordinated legal actions.

The investigation is being led by Pepca and the Directorate Common for Prosecution, underneath deputy prosecutor Wilson Camacho and prosecutor Mirna Ortiz. The fees embrace conspiracy amongst public officers, prevarication, legal affiliation, bribery, embezzlement, fraud, doc forgery, and cash laundering.