The First Criminal Chamber of the National District Court of Appeal continues this Tuesday afternoon with the appeal filed by former prosecutor Jean Alain Rodríguez, the main defendant in the Medusa case, with which he seeks to obtain his freedom.
The court, presided over by Magistrate Doris Pujols and composed of Carmen Mancebo and Daisy Idhira Montás, began the hearing after 10:00 am and granted 1 hour and a half to each of those involved in the case.
Both Jean Alain and the defense of the insider Javier Alejandro Forteza Ibarra, who controlled the Prosecutor’s Office’s Criminal Investigation System, and the prosecutors of the Public Ministry had the opportunity to conclude their request.
At the hearing, Jean Alain’s lawyers presented in court an audio of the coercive measure that was known in the National District Court of Permanent Care, where they alleged that Judge Kenya Romero “did not let them to talk”.
The ex-prosecutor’s defense bar also showed documentation alleging that the prosecution forged the ex-official’s signature and a text.
The court is expected to reserve the decision to make it known at a forthcoming hearing.
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Jean Alain Rodríguez is accused of signing multiple requests for payments, in his position as attorney general of the Republic, to the company DON, SRL, who was represented by his former adviser and co-accused in Operation Medusa, Miguel José Moya.
In addition, it is noted to use PGR funds to pay salaries to the “community ties” of the political movement Renewal of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD).
The Public Ministry has stated that this movement made use of vehicles confiscated by the PGR for political activities.
He is also accused of approving the procurement processes that were allegedly arranged.
Authorities also indicated that, less than seven days after ceasing his duties as attorney, Rodríguez ran into Jonnathan Joel Rodríguez Imbert and Alejandro Martin Rosa Llanes for issuing a check for 34 million 522,000 364.30 pesos incurring in suppression and impersonation of the original contract in accordance with custody and operation of real estate, on October 31, 2019.