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Santo Domingo.- In addition to the former director of the National Health Insurance (Senasa), Santiago Hazim, seven other people went this Saturday to the Attorney General's Office (PGR) within the framework of the investigation for an alleged case of administrative corruption in that institution.
Among those present was Eduardo Read, owner of the company Khersum SRL, mentioned in investigative reports by Nuria Piera for having been awarded to manage the care of 500,000 affiliates of the subsidized regime. According to these reports, Senasa paid one of its companies more than 60 million pesos monthly, even though the affiliates did not receive medical service.
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The presence of these people at the headquarters of the Public Ministry occurs 16 days later after the general director of Prosecution, Wilson Camacho, announced that there would be news about the process followed by the Specialized Prosecutor's Office for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (PEPCA). “News will be released soon”, Camacho said in response to reporters who questioned him in Santiago about the progress of the investigations related to the alleged embezzlement. It has been more than 11 months since the Public Ministry received the initial report with the fraud complaint, filed by Hazim himself before being dismissed by President Luis Abinader last August. Subsequently, on September 13, the Superintendent of Health and Occupational Risks, Miguel Ceara Hatton, and the current Executive Director of Senasa, Edward Guzmán, submitted a report to the PGR containing serious findings of irregularities detected during their duties. Authorities continue to deepen the investigation.
