Former Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez on Tuesday denounced an alleged discredit campaign against him for the bribery case of the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.
In a statement, Rodriguez said that started four years ago, to cloud public discourse on the subject.
“The campaign began in March 2017 in order to confuse public opinion with false stories, trying to get rid of their criminal responsibility,” reads part of the statement of the former head of the Public Ministry.
He also urged the defendant’s lawyers in the trial to present evidence of their arguments in court, and not through the media.
Regarding the case, Rodríguez stated that at the beginning the charges were fifteen people, some of them members of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) and the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM).
He said that before The Public Ministry proceeded to file eight of them, ensuring that there is no evidence to prove their participation in the events for which they were charged.
These statements by the former prosecutor came after the director of the special prosecutor for the prosecution of administrative corruption (Pepca), Wilson Camacho, qualify as “evil” a possible agreement between Rodríguez and the defendant in the Odebrecht case, Ángel Rondón.
In mid-November, Rondón assured that Jean Alain had called him to his office, where he claims that the former prosecutor He proposed to reach an agreement mention “two or three” members of the PRM and leave the others involved in the case.
“Because when he (Rodríguez) told me, we will conclude an agreement, we will accuse two or three of the PRM and some“And I said, ‘No, I’m not going to make a deal with what you’re telling me,'” the businessman said during a hearing on the case in Odebrecht.
Similarly, he said in an interview with Channel 37’s “Being Honest” CDN program that Rodriguez had asked President Luis Abinader to get involved in the corruption case.