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PRD appeals to the audit firm and records at the JCE

They point out the disbursement of RD$220 million for the candidates, although without the paperwork

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PRD appeals to the audit firm and records at the JCE
SANTO DOMINGO. The Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) appealed yesterday to its computer accounting records and the certification of a private audit firm which they contracted in order to justify the expenses for the period between 2009 and 2012, in which the party received RD $1,248,231,095.

In a press conference held yesterday at the National House, they showed a video of a news broadcast in which a black SUV, without a license plate, in which they say that several boxes of administrative documents were taken, and that it is the same vehicle in which party leader Tirso Mejia Ricart was traveling when the violent incidents which occurred in the National House on 27 January 2013 took place.

"We don't know where those documents ended up and who is the owner of that SUV, it did not have a license plate, you would have to ask don Tirso about this, since it was he who said that they would be well taken care of," responded the PRD President, Miguel Vargas.

The party presented yesterday a balance sheet of the expenditures, within which it was interesting that of those funds received between 1 January 2009 and 31 December 2012, the presidency of Ramon Alburquerque carried out general expenditures for RD$122,850,506.10 from January to July 2009.

Vargas Maldonado also said that they invested RD$166,973,644 for the simultaneous organization of the ordinary convention of 2009, chaired by Tirso Mejia Ricart in the first phase, and RD$81,771,019 and for the one that which was chaired by Tomas Hernandez Alberto, in the second phase.

RD$191,000,000 to Hipolito

As he gave his PowerPoint presentation, the spokesman for the PRD, Victor Gomez Casanova, noted that they delivered a check for RD$105,442,370 to then presidential candidate Hipolito Mejia, who received this with his signature on 11 April 2012, and that later they had to disperse RD$81 million to pay for publicity for the campaign, at the request of presidential candidate Mejia himself, so that the total which he received was RD$191,618,000.

He indicated that in the extraordinary convention of 2009 they invested RD$41,342,000.77, and in the extraordinary convention of 2010 which was chaired by Hugo Tolentino Dipp, they invested a similar amount, and in the extraordinary convention of 2011, chaired by Enmanuel Esquea, Milagros Ortiz Bosch and Hugo Tolentino Dipp they invested RD$43,860,548 for a total of RD$166,973,644 for expenses in these three conventions.

The private firm which the PRD presented yesterday in order to provide validity and certify all the expenditures of the party was the AGN International "Montero de los Santos and Associates", and the PRD stressed yesterday that the Chamber of Accounts itself recognized the work by this firm.

To the candidates

Another investment indicated by the PRD was that which was made to its candidates in for Congress and municipal positions in the 2010 elections in which they indicated that they dispersed RD$220,143,542.40 of which RD$133,000,481 772.44 for candidates to the Senate.

In a like manner, the PRD noted that they invested RD$25,814,160 for candidates for deputy seats, RD$54,722,600 for candidates for Mayor and RD$6,225,000 for the candidates to the post of directors of municipal districts.

The audits

PRD President Miguel Vargas, said that in the reports that they present each year to the Central Electoral Board are all the details of expenditures of the public funds that they receive. He made it clear that in order to be able to know the level of the contributions which have been made of their own money " they would have to take an inventory." The Chamber of Accounts said that the PRD could not present supporting material.

Tirso Mejia Ricart denies receiving funds from PRD

Party leader Tirso Mejia Ricart denied yesterday having taken administrative documents belonging to the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) during the shooting which occurred at the National House of the party on 27 January 2013.

Mejia Ricart also discarded having handled RD$166,973,644 belonging to the funds for the preparation, organization and promotion of the ordinary convention of 2009, held for the election of new party authorities, in its first phase.

"What am I going to do with documents and for what? This is something laughable. I didn't even go to the second floor to see if I could recover the money that they had not paid me so that the Congress (José Francisco Peña Gomez) could take place," he said.

Mejia Ricart was attributed yesterday during a press conference to have taken several boxes of documents, in a black SUV without license plates, after the violent incidents which occurred at the National House of the PRD, as a result of a clash between factions.

"The party did not give me a single cent, I received some contributions from deputies, from Hipolito Mejia, from Quido Gomez Mazara and from Eligio Jaquez, the party and the president threatened many times but never gave me anything," he noted.

He said that, in order to publish the invitation to the convention, he had to spend more than RD$300,000 of his own money, and they did not pay him back.