A series of contracts with business intention between the defendant Àngel Rondón with the Brazilian company Odebrecht, were incorporated before the First Collegiate Court of the National District during the knowledge of the judgment of bottoms followed to the six implied in the sound case.
With the reading by the court secretary of evidence number one of the documents, the Public Ministry seeks to prove the accusation for the bribes distributed by the construction company to agency assignments of state works. Specifically, it corresponds to part 1.3.
Defendant Rondón to each of the reading of the documents to the observation that the said contracts were intended for business, which were not signed, nor notarized by a notary lawyer.
He expressed that the documents were occupied by prosecutors from the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca), during the flattening carried out at his residence, after insisting that they are drafts of unexecuted projects.
Court president Gisell Méndez, after the start of the reading, made an observation to the secretariat so that every time she reads one of these contracts it is indicated if they are signed by the parties.
Contracts with business intentions between the parties refer to the sale of real estate, terms in which Rondón was going to work with the Brazilian construction company to offer its service, a confidentiality agreement between the parties, among others.
The court secretary also read a series of newspaper clippings to establish that the accused Rondón was engaged in livestock production, a medal of merit awarded by former President Danilo Medina, as well as a recognition by of the East Livestock Association to the owner of the Los Angeles Treasury and the Los Angeles Agroindustrial Factory.
Denouncements and bribes
Previously the court ruled that the allegations of employees 1 and 54 of the company Odebrecht, identified as Marcelo Odebrecht and Marc Vasconcelos Cruz are not read in full.
The court, which also includes Tania Iunis and Jisell Naranjo, made the decision considering that part of the allegations that will not be incorporated, is for not having 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.
Pepca’s prosecutors, Wilson Camacho, incumbent; Mirna Ortiz, organ litigation coordinator. and José Miguel Marmolejo, had asked the court to allow the full incorporation of the award-winning denunciations of the executives of the Brazilian company. This generated the opposition of the lawyers of the defenses of the defendants, asking that the request be rejected, after considering that the translations were not duly deposited before the Secretariat of the Supreme Court of Justice on the part of Public Ministry and that, this it had already been ruled by the court.
Follow on Monday.
The Collegiate Court of the National District adjourned yesterday, next Monday at 9:00 am, the continuation of the trial on the merits of the Odebret case.
92 million US dollars.
The Brazilian company admitted to having paid bribes of $ 92 million for the award of public works in the Dominican Republic.
The defendants.
In addition to Àngel Rondón Rijo, Víctor Díaz Rúa, Conrado Pittaluga Arzeno, Porfirio Andrés Bautista García, Juan Roberto Rodríguez Hernández and the former PLD senator Tommy Galán are accused.