Judge Patricia Padilla authorizes for the fifth time the departure from the country of the accused Jochy Gómez

Santo Domingo, RD — The judge of the Second Instruction Court of the National District, Patricia Padilla, authorized the defendant José Gómez Canaán “Jochy”, to leave the country for Panama from Monday, June 23rd to Monday, June 30th of the current year. This is the fifth time that this judge has authorized the defendant in the Chameleon operation to leave the country. Padilla also ordered that the judicial provision be notified to the Public Prosecutor's Office, the applicant, and the "General Directorate of Migration," with the aim of ensuring compliance with the provisional lifting of the exit impediment that weighed against the accused.

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Likewise, the judge imposed an economic sanction on the Attorney General's Office, which will consist of a fine of 5,000 pesos per day for each day that the execution of this court order is delayed. Jochy Gómez is one of the accused in the so-called Operation Chameleon, through which the Public Ministry accuses him, along with the former director of the National Institute of Transit and Terrestrial Transportation (INTRANT), Hugo Beras, and other defendants, of attempting to defraud the State of more than 1,300 million pesos. The alleged fraud would have been attempted through the contract for the installation of smart traffic lights in Greater Santo Domingo.