Supreme Court of Justice rules against the Audit Office again

Santo Domingo. - The Supreme Court of Justice has ruled again against the Chamber of Accounts, this time due to the appeal for cassation filed by Inteligencia Legal, SRL, as a result of a ruling by the Fifth Chamber of the Superior Administrative Court that had rejected the lawsuit filed by the law firm to collect the penalty agreed upon in the service contract signed with the auditing body in February 2021 and which, as is remembered, it was intended to be annulled during the period of Janel Ramírez and Mario Fernández, a process that the Chamber of Accounts also lost. The high judicial collegiate decided by judgment no. SCJ-TS-25-2495, of July 31, 2025, that the Fifth Chamber of the Superior Administrative Court, when rejecting the demand of Inteligencia Legal, SRL, incurred in the vice of denaturalization of the facts by assuming that the object of that process was the collection of fees, which was not the case. The court held that the true object of the lawsuit was the collection of the penalty agreed upon in the contract, which consisted of 9 million pesos if, as indeed happened, the Chamber of Accounts terminated the contract before the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court of Justice decided on the actions that were brought before them at the request of said body through the lawyers Julio Cury, Eduardo Jorge Prats, Danay Mercado and Francisco Franco. The Supreme Court of Justice emphasized that the Fifth Chamber of the Superior Administrative Court distorted the factual picture by understanding that "the object of the lawsuit was the breach of the obligation to pay fees for legal services, when in reality it was based on the breach of the agreed term and the unilateral revocation of the contract without having verified the existence of a serious fault that would exempt the Chamber of Accounts from paying Inteligencia Legal, SRL, the 9 million pesos set in the penalty clause.

Consequently, the challenged decision incurs the vice of denaturalization of the facts, by misinterpreting the claims of the lawsuit in patrimonial liability", is stated in the ruling of the highest court of justice.

As the ruling appealed in cassation by the law firm headed by Dr. Julio Cury has been overturned, the lawsuit will now be decided by the First Chamber of the Superior Administrative Court, presided over by Judge Luisa del Carmen Canaán P.