Businessman Ángel Rondón Rijo, the main defendant in the Odebrecht case, was convinced that this case was made in the National Palace and that it was not just the work of the then Attorney General of the Republic, Jean Alain Rodríguez.
Rondón Rijo asserts that the political power at the time was to determine who to include or remove from the case, depending on whether or not he favored that administration.
He added that he personally does not believe that former President Danilo Medina participated in the preparation of the indictment, although there are inserts that ensure that nothing was moved there without the consent of the former president.
He recalled that in the National Palace there was a strategy office in which it was established that it is politically convenient or not for Medina Sánchez.
“But one of the accused told me, Angel, you are naive, that file was not made by the prosecutor, that file was made in the Palace and there it was decided who to put and who to remove, who to ask questions. and who doesn’t, and today I told that person that he was right “, declared the main defendant for receiving the alleged bribe of 92 million dollars, admitted by the Brazilian construction company.
Rondón, when interviewed by Héctor Herrera Cabral in the D´AGENDA program that is broadcast every Sunday by Canal 11 Telesistema, said that Medina probably does not agree with some of these things, but his collaborators convinced him that this it suited him more politically.
“It’s convenient for you to start this file, to sacrifice people in your environment, even because it can’t be all on the same side, but you have to put people in and I’m almost certain that this happened,” the man argued. Business .
As for the exclusion of Punta Catalina, he says he imagines that they eliminated him because it was a project of President Danilo Medina.
“But the strategy was wrong there, it should have included Punta Catalina and interviewed those who participated, and the exclusion of that work would have been more transparent.
He said that since the audience was not stupid, they realized that “there was a play” because they ordered the exclusion from the file of the largest project that Odebrecht had executed in the country.
“Because this is the message that people have in mind, they sent him to take out Punta Catalina, so I think the strategy there was not correct.
Rondón recalled that Punta Catalina was included in the file submitted by the Attorney General of the Republic for the coercive measure, but later they understood that they were “wrong” and decided to remove the work.
He says it was a political decision to archive the files
Businessman Ángel Rondón Rijo understands that it was a political decision to archive the files of eight of the accused in the Odebrecht case and leave the others included.
“The case continued, when I tell you that it was a political decision, because they left four and removed eight from that case,” he argued.
He said there was no doubt that the political issue had an influence, because for the same reason that the four who are being prosecuted are accused, the others who were excluded were also accused.
“There is no difference there and you say, but it is illogical, because how is it possible to submit the file of eight inserts and leave four,” Rondón Rijo asked.
He recalled that he had repeatedly asked the Attorney General of the Republic, Jean Alain Rodríguez, when he told him that he was going to subdue everyone, that he would only subdue him and press him as hard as he could to see if he can get evidence that he bribed the accused.
In another order, Ángel Rondón insisted that Jean Alain tell him to incriminate PRM leaders and give him his first and last name, he also asked him if he had any receipt of the Odebrecht campaign contribution to Luis Abinader, that he announced it too.
“He told me, accuses three or four of the PRM, with first and last name, and if there is a piece of paper or a campaign contribution from Odebrecht to Luis Abinader and I replied that I do not know about Odebrecht’s contributions, but I contributed to the campaign in almost all political parties “, he detailed.
Rondón also said that if it was because he bribed those involved in the Odebrecht case to convict him, those people would have to be released because neither they nor anyone else bribed in these projects.