Amongst those that obtained greater than 2 billion pesos are the previous director of the establishment, Santiago Hazim, and the Authorized Guide, Germán Robles.
SANTO DOMINGO (Dominican Republic) – This Thursday, in the course of the listening to on the coercive measure requested because of the judicialization of Operation Cobra, three of the defendants admitted earlier than the decide that they paid bribes to Santiago Marcelo F. Hazim Albainy, former director of the Nationwide Well being Insurance coverage (SeNaSa), and different officers of that state entity.
“This coercive measure has been of such magnitude that three of the accused have admitted their participation in the events and have also admitted their collaboration to the Public Prosecutor’s Office,” mentioned court docket prosecutor Mirna Ortiz, head of the Specialised Prosecutor’s Workplace for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca).
He mentioned that those that admitted the info earlier than Choose Rigoberto Sena did so “providing evidence and admitting that they paid bribes to members of SeNaSa, including its former director, Dr. Hazim.”
Ortiz highlighted the energy of the case offered in opposition to the ten arrested in Operation Cobra for making the most of SeNaSa to defraud the Dominican State of billions of pesos, and for receiving greater than 2 billion pesos in bribes alone.
Along with Santiago Marcelo F. Hazim Albainy, the defendants within the case embrace Rafael Luis Martínez Hazim, Gustavo Enrique Messina Cruz, Germán Rafael Robles Quiñones, Francisco Iván Minaya Pérez, Eduardo Learn Estrella, Cinty Acosta Sención, Heidi Mariela Pineda, Ramón Alan Speakler Mateo, and Ada Ledesma Ubiera.
The Public Prosecutor’s Workplace is requesting 18 months of pretrial detention and that the case be declared advanced. They asserted that there are greater than sufficient causes for the case to be declared advanced, “one of those reasons being the large number of victims; we are talking about a health insurance plan that covers more than 7 million Dominicans.”
Deputy Lawyer Basic Wilson Camacho, head of the Public Prosecutor’s Workplace’s Directorate Basic for Prosecution, led the litigation crew representing the prosecution on the listening to, together with Mirna Ortiz. The crew additionally included prosecutors Héctor García, Rosa García, Enmanuel Ramírez, Yudelka Holguín, Aurelio Valdez, Alexis Piña, and Ernesto Guzmán.
“This afternoon (Thursday) we filed the coercive measure for this Operation Cobra, also presenting an important file of evidence containing more than 138 documentary evidence, more than 35 testimonial evidence, and expert evidence,” Ortiz advised the press who approached her on the Palace of Justice in Ciudad Nueva.
He added that “tomorrow afternoon (Friday) we will continue with the presentation of the defenses, which is what remains, and then the response from the Public Prosecutor’s Office, and at that moment the court will be in a position to issue its decision.”
The Judicial Workplace of Everlasting Consideration Companies of the Nationwide District, recessed till this Friday, at 2:00 within the afternoon, will maintain the listening to on the request for coercive measures.
Choose Rigoberto Sena introduced the choice after 11:00 p.m., when many of the defendants had already offered their protection arguments.
The Public Prosecutor’s Workplace is in search of prison sanctions in opposition to these answerable for embezzling billions of pesos from the State by SeNaSa, in addition to the confiscation of the cash stolen from that well being danger administrator (ARS).
Amongst different crimes, the group is charged with collusion of officers, prevarication, prison affiliation, bribery, fraud in opposition to the Dominican State, embezzlement, forgery, use of false paperwork, and cash laundering.