Some families who were scammed through the network of Operation Squid They disrupted Thursday’s hearing on the opportunity criterion to several businessmen claiming that they have not been notified and that they are left out as victims for compensation for damages and damage.
Lawyers representing the clans claim to exclude them from a compensationthey say that the Public ministry understands that the victim in the scam of land declared of public utility is only the State.
The hearing to know and approve the agreementsin which the prosecuting body desists from the criminal action against those linked in the Squid casewas postponed by the Fourth Court of Instruction until August 22.
Pablo Castillo, Martin Rubiera and Jose Javier Bidólawyers for the Mota family, explained that the Public ministry He told them that they will collect the compensation during the entire process of the case against the former officials accused of the fraud.
“The law states that to make a opportunity criterion “The victim must be compensated,” Castillo clarified.
Also the successors of the Italian Alessandro by Paola Sangiovanniwhose property In Higüey it was sold by lawyers in an irregular manner to the State, they notified an act of opposition so that the sale would not be carried out compensation for him opportunity criterion to the Attorney General’s Office.
According to Calamar’s accusation, De Paola Sangiovanni, who arrived in the country in the 1940s, left behind a plot of land measuring 15,893,345 square meters at her death, a property that was sold to the State for more than 4 billion pesos through “fraudulent maneuvers” by the siblings Ana Linda and Emir Fernández De Paola, who are accused in the case.
The six people involved in the plot who were asked to leave it out of the criminal actionwill return more than 2,000 million of pesos after a agreement with the prosecuting body. These are the businessmen Fernando Crisóstomo Herrera, Ramón Emilio Jiménez Collie and José Arturo Ureña. Also the former director of Oisoe, Victor Matias Encarnacion Montero, Belkis Antonia Tejeda Ramirez, Natalia Cesarina Beltre Torres and the company Grupo Dibefe, SRL
A family that was not notified and has not had access to the talks of the Public Ministry is the Kings Ubenaccording to the lawyer Francisco Garcia.
Garcia indicated that the list of complainants It is large and it is likely that the Public ministry“without acting in bad faith” has not notified some of them. He said that there are around eight families and that only the Gatón, the one with the fewest members, is made up of nine.
They will meet to fine-tune to agree compensation
Lawyer Francisco Garciawho represents the Gatón family, said that several complainants They will meet today with the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office against Administrative Corruption (Pepca) to unify their requests and arrive at the next hearing with a consensual request.
The meeting will be held with Pepca by instruction of Judge Altagracia RamÃrez.
The preliminary hearing in the Calamar case is scheduled for August 26.
The group of 47 defendants is headed by former ministers Donald Guerrero, José Ramón Peralta and Gonzalo Castillo.
According to the MP, the maneuvers to defraud the State of more than RD$41 billion included paying irregularly for land declared of public utility in exclusive areas such as the Santo Domingo seawall, near the Las Américas International Airport and in the Eastern Region.
