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Santo Domingo.– The Attorney General of the Republic, Yeni Berenice Reynoso, emphatically reiterated that the Public Ministry has not granted any opportunity criteria nor maintains plea agreements with any of the ten defendants for administrative corruption within the framework of Operation Cobra.
"It is important to reiterate that the Public Ministry has no plea agreement with any of the ten defendants in the case known as Operation Cobra, nor has it granted them prosecutorial discretion," Reynoso affirmed.
The magistrate assured that the prosecutors will seek in the courts the corresponding penalties for the serious acts committed against the National Health Insurance (SeNaSa), which affected more than seven million affiliates and the entire Dominican society. "It's going for penalties," she emphasized.
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Reynoso offered these statements when answering questions from journalists during the inauguration of an integral justice access center of the Public Ministry, which will have a Community Prosecutor's Office, a Peace Court, an Integral Attention Unit for Gender, Intrafamily and Sexual Violence, as well as a Prosecutor's Office for Children and Adolescents.
Likewise, he reiterated that the teams of prosecutors, especially those from the General Directorate of Prosecution and the Specialized Prosecutor's Office for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca), continue working "without rest" in what he called phase 2.0 of Operation Cobra.
He indicated that, for strategic reasons, the Public Ministry does not set specific dates for new actions in the process, although he assured that they will occur within a reasonable timeframe.
Regarding the health claims of the defendant Santiago Hazim, the prosecutor specified that there is no forensic report establishing that he is not fit to face the judicial process.
"Those who are healthy enough to misappropriate state funds must be healthy enough to face justice, especially in the face of such serious events as those that occurred at SeNaSa," he stated.
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Regarding the less burdensome coercive measures imposed on three of the accused, Reynoso pointed out that the most relevant thing is the solidity of the investigative work carried out for months by the Public Ministry, which was recognized by the judge who heard the hearing.
Last Sunday, Judge Rigoberto Sena Ferreras, of the Eighth Instruction Court of the National District, declared the case as complex and ordered 18 months of preventive detention against Santiago Marcelo F. Hazim Albany, Gustavo Enrique Messina Cruz, Germán Rafael Robles Quiñones, Francisco Iván Minaya Pérez, Rafael Luis Martínez Hazim and Ramón Alan Speaker Mateo.
Meanwhile, Cinty Acosta Sención, Heidi Mariela Pineda Perdomo, and Eduardo Read Estrella will serve house arrest, with a ban on leaving the country and the presentation of financial guarantees.
