Attorney General asks for remand to custody for Amable Aristy
Chief Justice of SCJ should empower a judge to deal with the petition
SD. The Attorney General of the Republic, Francisco Dominguez Brito , asked the Supreme Court of Justice to impose preventive custody a coercive measure against Senator Amable Aristy Castro. The senator is accused of committing alleged acts of corruption during his administration of the Dominican Municipal League (LMD).
The audit stresses, among other aspects, that during the administration of Aristy Castro, the LMD disbursed the amount of RD$75,317,600 for food rations to be donated, of which there was no evidence obtained that would permit the confirmation of the direct beneficiaries of the meals. This was because the products were not sent directly from the warehouses of the suppliers to the places where the operations were carried out.
The request for coercive measures against the legislator is done after the Attorney General announced the revoking of a provisional dismissal to the investigation began on the occasion of a financial and legal audit by the Chamber of Accounts on the LMD during the administration of Amable Aristy Castro.
The decision had been adopted by decision Number 03099, issued on 10 August by the National Directorate for Persecution of Administrative Corruption (DPCA) as a result of the reports on the audits carried out by the Chamber of Accounts, during the period from 1 January to 31 December 2006.
There was also consideration given to the most recent definitive report that covers the period from 1 January to 31 December 2009, "without any limits on broadening this investigating other years of budgetary operations."
The petition
After announcing the revocation of the provisional shelving of the case, Dominguez Brito suggested that with the reopening of the investigation and after going through the necessary work, the Justice Ministry will be in a position to discard or prove whether or not the facts contained in the complaints against the senator are sufficient to back a formal accusation.
He added that it is obligatory for the Justice Department to pursue all of the facts or punishable offenses that it knows of as long as there are element that will verify the truth.
The audit stresses, among other aspects, that during the administration of Aristy Castro, the LMD disbursed the amount of RD$75,317,600 for food rations to be donated, of which there was no evidence obtained that would permit the confirmation of the direct beneficiaries of the meals. This was because the products were not sent directly from the warehouses of the suppliers to the places where the operations were carried out.
The request for coercive measures against the legislator is done after the Attorney General announced the revoking of a provisional dismissal to the investigation began on the occasion of a financial and legal audit by the Chamber of Accounts on the LMD during the administration of Amable Aristy Castro.
The decision had been adopted by decision Number 03099, issued on 10 August by the National Directorate for Persecution of Administrative Corruption (DPCA) as a result of the reports on the audits carried out by the Chamber of Accounts, during the period from 1 January to 31 December 2006.
There was also consideration given to the most recent definitive report that covers the period from 1 January to 31 December 2009, "without any limits on broadening this investigating other years of budgetary operations."
The petition
After announcing the revocation of the provisional shelving of the case, Dominguez Brito suggested that with the reopening of the investigation and after going through the necessary work, the Justice Ministry will be in a position to discard or prove whether or not the facts contained in the complaints against the senator are sufficient to back a formal accusation.
He added that it is obligatory for the Justice Department to pursue all of the facts or punishable offenses that it knows of as long as there are element that will verify the truth.