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Santo Domingo. - Former executive director of the National Health Insurance (SENASA), Santiago Hazim, will appear this Friday before the court to present his defense.
Hazim is pointed out by the accusing body as the main person involved in a corruption scheme that would have cost the Dominican State billions of pesos.
His lawyer, Miguel Valerio, advanced that the defense intends to dismantle the prosecution's arguments and question the credibility of its main witness.
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"We are going to demonstrate that the star witness of the Public Ministry is a person dedicated to corruption, pardoned in another file and involved in this case, and we will have to discuss that," Valerio pointed out. The lawyer also described as incongruent the alleged extortions reported by businessmen because, according to him, they continued operating with Senasa without interruption. "That's the strangest extortion, because the person being extorted must immediately stop the work, and that never happened," said Valerio, reiterating that Hazim did not receive undue payments. Valerio criticized the agreements reached by three defendants with the Prosecutor's Office, alleging that they would be co-authors and that none claimed to have given money directly to Hazim. The coercion measure hearing will continue today, Friday, starting at 2:00 PM. The court for the Senasa case. Hazim held the position from August 24, 2020 to August 17, 2025 Santo Domingo.- Former executive director of the National Health Insurance, Santiago Hazim, will appear this Friday before the court to present his defense. Hazim is pointed out by the accusing body as the main person involved in a corruption scheme that would have cost the Dominican State billions of pesos. His lawyer, Miguel Valerio, advanced that the defense intends to dismantle the prosecution's arguments and question the credibility of its main witness. "We are going to demonstrate that the star witness of the Public Ministry is a person dedicated to corruption, pardoned in another file and involved in this case, and we will have to discuss that," Valerio pointed out. The lawyer also described as incongruent the alleged extortions reported by businessmen because, according to him, they continued operating with Senasa without interruption. "That's the strangest extortion, because the person being extorted must immediately stop the work, and that never happened," said Valerio, reiterating that Hazim did not receive undue payments. Valerio criticized the agreements reached by three defendants with the Prosecutor's Office, alleging that they would be co-authors and that none claimed to have given money directly to Hazim. The coercion measure hearing will continue today, Friday, starting at 2:00 PM.
