The former executive director of the National Institute of Traffic and Land Transportation (Intrant), Hugo Beras, the businessman José Ángel Gómez Canaán (Jochi) and five others involved in the case of alleged corruption from the Intrantwere transferred at 2:05 in the afternoon this Tuesday to the hearing room, where the request for a coercive measure against the involved in the Operation Chameleon.
The others accused are:
- Frank Rafael Atilano Díaz Warden, Office coordinator and representative of Hugo Beras before the Purchasing Committee of the Intrant.
- Samuel Gregorio Baquero Sepúlveda, Director of Technology.
- Pedro Vinicio Padovani Báez, former head of the Traffic Control Center.
- Juan Francisco Álvarez, Administrative and Financial Director of the Intrant.
- Carlos José Peguero Vargas.
All of them were guarded for the Unit of High Risk Transfer to the Permanent Care Office of the National District.
Judge Fátima Díaz presides over the audiencein which the Public Ministryrepresented by the head of Pepca, Wilson Camacho, and the litigation coordinator, Mirna Ortiz, requests preventive detention and that the case be declared complex.
About the operation chameleon
The call operation chameleoncarried out by the Public Ministryinvestigates an alleged network of corruption that would have involved at least seven people in a process that began with a tender for the Intrant. The irregularities They include allegations of terrorism, espionage, organized crime, use of false documents, illicit enrichment and embezzlement.
The axis of operation Camaleón is the public tender in which Jochi Gómez’s company was awarded more than 1,317 million pesos for the modernization of the traffic light system of Greater Santo Domingo.
