Judge sets decision for Felix Bautista case for 27 March
He will have a deadline of 20 working days in order to give his decision
Diario Libre
SANTO DOMINGO. After holding 17 marathonic hearings where the evidence of the Attorney General of the Republic and the counter arguments by the defense counsel were heard, the judge of Special Instruction of the Supreme Court of Justice, Alejandro Moscoso Segarra, set for 27 March the reading of the resolution that he would take with respect to the accusation on alleged corruption and money laundering presented against Senator Felix Bautista and another six persons.
The magistrate took the decision, after closing the debates where the Justice Department and the defense attacked and counterattacked their arguments.
Previously, he requested that the parties reject the term of immediacy, which would force the verdict of the process to be given once the preliminary hearing was concluded, as contemplated in the Penal Process Code.
Judge Moscoso Segarra suggested to the prosecutors and the defense attorneys that they were dealing with a case which merits a minute analysis of each one of the points that have been raised. Likewise it requires a reasonable time frame in order to take a decision.
"The tribunal closes the debates of this preliminary hearing and withdraws to ponder its decision." He suggested that with the agreement of the two parties, that they resign the term of immediacy, this would give him 20 working days to hand down a complete decision.
The representatives of the Justice Department, Carlos Castillo Diaz, Lora Guerrero Pelletier, Wilson Camacho, Pelagio Alcantara, Milciades Guzman, Wagner Cubilete, and Narciso Escaño requested the opening of a trial, and the order for preventive custody against Bautista, Soraida Antonia Abreu Martinez, José Elias Fernandez Garcia, Bolivar Antonio Ventura Rodriguez, Carlos Manuel Ozoria Martinez, Gricel Aracelis Soler Pimentel, and Bienvenido Apolinar Breton Medina. They said they felt that due to the alleged fortune which the group has which includes some 500 assets, there is a real danger of flight.
"The seriousness of the charges which have been made against the defendants, who have been proven to have moved more than RD$25.0 billion, of possessing 175 properties in luxury apartment towers that exist in the Dominican Republic, apartments, lots in the Metro Country Club, airplanes, four asphalt plants, one of them valued in US $33 million.... So that we are dealing with a very serious incident."
At the same time the defense of the Secretary of Organization of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) and the other defendants said that part of the current accusations attributed to the legislator were already investigated in 2012, and they said in addition that an audit by the Chamber of Accounts in 2013 did not find any indications of mishandling of funds against the defendant during his tenure as the head of the Office of Supervising Engineers of State Projects (OISOE).
They said that the incidents that are being prosecuted were already heard during an investigation carried out by the Attorney General of the Republic in 2012.
Marino Feliz Rodriguez noted that the National Director at for the Persecution of Administrative Corruption (DPCA) carried out investigations regarding the same accusations which are today being attributed to Bautista, as a result of accusations presented by the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), the Dominican Alliance Against Corruption (ADOCO) and the National Convergence of Lawyers. They insisted that the economic resources of their client, Senator Felix Bautista, have a defined origin, discarding any sort of illicit activity. They explained that after the earthquake in Haiti the company belonging to the engineer carried out projects for a value of US $9.8 million.
The magistrate took the decision, after closing the debates where the Justice Department and the defense attacked and counterattacked their arguments.
Previously, he requested that the parties reject the term of immediacy, which would force the verdict of the process to be given once the preliminary hearing was concluded, as contemplated in the Penal Process Code.
Judge Moscoso Segarra suggested to the prosecutors and the defense attorneys that they were dealing with a case which merits a minute analysis of each one of the points that have been raised. Likewise it requires a reasonable time frame in order to take a decision.
"The tribunal closes the debates of this preliminary hearing and withdraws to ponder its decision." He suggested that with the agreement of the two parties, that they resign the term of immediacy, this would give him 20 working days to hand down a complete decision.
The representatives of the Justice Department, Carlos Castillo Diaz, Lora Guerrero Pelletier, Wilson Camacho, Pelagio Alcantara, Milciades Guzman, Wagner Cubilete, and Narciso Escaño requested the opening of a trial, and the order for preventive custody against Bautista, Soraida Antonia Abreu Martinez, José Elias Fernandez Garcia, Bolivar Antonio Ventura Rodriguez, Carlos Manuel Ozoria Martinez, Gricel Aracelis Soler Pimentel, and Bienvenido Apolinar Breton Medina. They said they felt that due to the alleged fortune which the group has which includes some 500 assets, there is a real danger of flight.
"The seriousness of the charges which have been made against the defendants, who have been proven to have moved more than RD$25.0 billion, of possessing 175 properties in luxury apartment towers that exist in the Dominican Republic, apartments, lots in the Metro Country Club, airplanes, four asphalt plants, one of them valued in US $33 million.... So that we are dealing with a very serious incident."
At the same time the defense of the Secretary of Organization of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) and the other defendants said that part of the current accusations attributed to the legislator were already investigated in 2012, and they said in addition that an audit by the Chamber of Accounts in 2013 did not find any indications of mishandling of funds against the defendant during his tenure as the head of the Office of Supervising Engineers of State Projects (OISOE).
They said that the incidents that are being prosecuted were already heard during an investigation carried out by the Attorney General of the Republic in 2012.
Marino Feliz Rodriguez noted that the National Director at for the Persecution of Administrative Corruption (DPCA) carried out investigations regarding the same accusations which are today being attributed to Bautista, as a result of accusations presented by the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), the Dominican Alliance Against Corruption (ADOCO) and the National Convergence of Lawyers. They insisted that the economic resources of their client, Senator Felix Bautista, have a defined origin, discarding any sort of illicit activity. They explained that after the earthquake in Haiti the company belonging to the engineer carried out projects for a value of US $9.8 million.
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