The judges of the First Collegiate Court of the National District ruled that the allegations of employees 1 and 54 of the Odebrecht company, identified as Marcelo Odebrecht and Marc Vasconcelos Cruz, should not be read in full.
The court chaired by Gisell Méndez and composed of Tania Iunis and Jisell Naranjo, he made the decision considering that part of the denunciations that will not be incorporated, is for not having been translated into Spanish completely.
In this regard, the judges ordered the court clerk to read only the parts that are in Spanish, since according to the Code of Criminal Procedure at trial only documents that are in that language can be incorporated.
The court ruled that it will begin to read, first, the allegations of the employee January (Marcelo Odebrecht) that are in Spanish, with the allegations, Pepca wants to prove the alleged involvement of the six defendants in the bribery scheme.
Prosecutors of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca), Wilson Camacho, incumbent, Mirna Ortiz, Coordinator of litigation of the body and José Miguel Marmole, had asked the court to allow the full incorporation of the award-winning denunciations of the executives of the Brazilian company, which admitted to pay for the award of public works to the Republic Dominican Republic.
This generated the opposition of the lawyers of the defenses of the defendants, asking that the request was rejected, after considering that the translations were not duly deposited before the Secretariat of the Supreme Court of Justice by the Public Ministry and that, this had already been ruled by the court.
They alleged that the allegations of Odebrecht executives could be incorporated into the trial because they are not properly translated and that this is already a matter of trial.
Pepca keeps the warning
Earlier, the head of the Pepca, Wilson Camacho, maintained the warning to the court that the Public Ministry deposited all the evidence before the Secretariat of the Supreme Court of Justice and therefore requested that the entire deposit be read.
He said that in “test number one there is all the denunciation of employee 54 (Marc Vasconcelos Creu) and this translated; there is the denunciation of employee number one (Marcelo Odebrecht) and it is translated. They must read- it was fully agreed by the Public Prosecutor in his indictment. “