A series of business contracts between defendant Ángel Rondón and the Brazilian company Odebrecht were incorporated before the First Collegiate Court of the National District during the hearing of the trial followed by the six involved in the notorious case.
With the secretary of the test court number one reading the documents, the Public Ministry is trying to prove the accusation for the bribe distributed by the construction company in order to obtain attributions of state works. Specifically, it corresponds to part 1.3.
In each reading of the document, defendant Rondón noted that the aforementioned contracts had a commercial purpose, that they were not signed or notarized by a notary lawyer.
He claimed that the documents were seized by the prosecutors of the special prosecutor for the prosecution of administrative corruption (Pepca) during the search of his home, after insisting that they were unfulfilled drafts.
The President of the Court, Gisell Méndez, after the beginning of the reading, made a remark to the clerk, so that every time he reads one of these contracts, it is indicated if they are signed by the parties.
Contracts with commercial intentions between the parties refer to the sale of real estate, conditions under which Rondón was to cooperate with the Brazilian construction company to provide its service, a confidentiality agreement between the parties, among others.
The court clerk also read a series of newspaper clippings to establish that the defendant Rondón was engaged in animal production, a medal of merit awarded by former President Danilo Medina, and a recognition by the Cattlemen Association of this to the owner Hacienda Los Angeles and La Fábrica Agroindustrial Los Angeles.
Reports and bribes
Earlier, the court ruled that the reports of Odebrecht’s employees 1 and 54, identified as Marcelo Odebrecht and Marcos Vasconcelos Cruz, should not be read in full.
The court, which also consists of Tania Yunes and Jisell Naranjo, ruled that part of the complaints that will not be incorporated are due to the fact that they are not fully translated into Spanish.
In this regard, the judges ordered the court clerk to read only the parts that are in Spanish, because according to the Code of Criminal Procedure, only documents that are in this language can be incorporated in the process. The court decided to start reading, first, the reports of employee 1 (Marcelo Odebrecht) which are in Spanish, with whose reports Pepca wants to prove the alleged participation of the six defendants in the bribery scheme.
Attorneys Pepca, Wilson Camacho, chief; Mirna Ortiz, body litigation coordinator. and José Miguel Marmolejo, had asked the court to allow the full incorporation of the award-winning statements of the Brazilian company’s directors. This led to opposition from the defendant’s defense lawyers, demanding that the motion be rejected, after considering that the translations had not been properly submitted to the secretariat of the Supreme Court of Justice by the Public Ministry and that this had already been done. by the court.
Watch Monday.
The Collegiate Court of the National District withdrew yesterday for next Monday at 9:00 am the continuation of the substantive process of the Odebret case.
$ 92 million.
The Brazilian company admitted that it paid a bribe of 92 million US dollars for the award of public works in the Dominican Republic.
The accused.
In addition to Ángel Rondón Rijo, Víctor Díaz Rúa, Conrado Pittaluga Arzeno, Porfirio Andrés Bautista García, Juan Roberto Rodríguez Hernández and former PLD senator Tommy Galán are accused.