Somos Pueblo calls for a vigil in front of the Palace of Justice for the SeNaSa case: "Now we have to think about the health of who stole"

Santo Domingo.- The social platform Somos Pueblo called for a march-vigil for this Sunday in front of the Palacio de Justicia de Ciudad Nueva, in protest against the corruption network detected in the National Health Insurance (SeNaSa). Activist Eduardo Sánchez Tolentino, better known as “El Piro,” called through social media to mobilize and demand justice for what he called a network of bribes and fraudulent movements that seriously affected the public health system.

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"On Sunday the 14th I will be at 6:00 p.m. at the Palace of Justice to see what the judges are going to decide," said Sánchez Tolentino. Likewise, he questioned that the main defendant, identified by the Public Ministry as the ringleader of the network, Santiago Hazim, was requested house arrest without impediment to leave the country as a coercive measure. "I want to see if with all the millions in cash that the Public Ministry says were stolen they are going to let him go quietly to his house, or to New York to get treatments, or if they are going to treat him like most of the prisoners here, eating struggle," he stated. This Sunday, Judge Rigoberto Sena, from the Permanent Attention Office of the National District, will hear the request for coercive measures against 10 defendants of the so-called Operation Cobra, accused of an alleged embezzlement of the State exceeding RD$200 billion pesos. According to the record, the funds withdrawn were intended for essential health services such as chemotherapy, medical supplies, consultations with specialists, and other treatments for the population affiliated with SENASA.