Defendant Ángel Rondón’s technical defense argued in the first instance collegiate court in the national district that the award-winning statements of Odebrecht executives sent from Brazil should not be admitted to the trial.
Lawyers José Miguel Minier, who leads the defense bar, Emely Rodríguez and Fernan Ramos Peralta, have raised before the judges hearing the trial, that the charges are not valid evidence to prove the charge against those charged in the Odebrecht case.
Rodriguez said in court that Francisco Ortega Polanco, a judge of the Supreme Court’s Special Instruction, ordered the criminal investigation body to go to Brazil and interrogate the employees of the Odebrecht construction company, which the Public Ministry did not do.
“If the Public Ministry had wanted to bring those Odebrecht employees in order to ask them, they would have had to comply with the decision of a judge who did not respect it and we hope at least that they will say here the reason,” he said. said the lawyer.
He stated that the Public Ministry was not given the will to go to Brazil and that the only possibility established by law in Article 371 is when the report is introduced in accordance with the procedural rules, because the parties have this possibility and there is harmonized the legality of the process. .
Rodríguez argued that the denunciations were not translated in accordance with the law and that they contained only the seal and an initial of the alleged judicial interpreter, ie it did not contain the number of the act, book and translation sheet.
In addition, he stressed that he did not have a certificate that the document was in accordance with the original, the identity and signature of the interpreter, the date of translation and that, “to add insult to injury”, he was presumed to have done the same by the name seal “is not authorized to translate from Portuguese into Spanish”.
“Complaints are agreements which have been produced in a completely different judicial system from that of the Dominican Republic, but, in addition, the informants have not been questioned by the Dominican authorities and their statements are neither signed, nor apostille, nor certified as required. by law. “, Stressed Emely Rodríguez.