{"id":478544,"date":"2025-08-14T15:18:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T19:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/judges-who-sentenced-alexis-medina-feel-that-society-is-increasingly-serious-due-to-corruption\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T15:18:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T19:18:57","slug":"judges-who-sentenced-alexis-medina-feel-that-society-is-increasingly-serious-due-to-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/dominican-news\/justice\/judges-who-sentenced-alexis-medina-feel-that-society-is-increasingly-serious-due-to-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Judges who sentenced Alexis Medina feel that society is increasingly serious due to corruption."},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo<\/strong>.- Before issuing a sentence that condemned Alexis Medina, brother of former president Danilo Medina, the judges of the Second Collegiate Tribunal of the National District,<\/strong> Claribel Nivar (president of the tribunal), Yissell Soto Pe\u00f1a and Clara Sobeyda Castillo<\/strong>, stated that “society definitely has to stand up to all this scourge, because corruption, without a doubt, has been evidenced in this case: it has been full, absolute and profound.”\n\nIn the words of Judge Soto Pe\u00f1a, the court took a moment to reflect on the deep institutional deterioration of society that it was able to witness with the corruption cases presented by the Public Ministry.\n\n\n

You may be interested in: <\/strong>http:\/\/Ministerio P\u00fablico anuncia apelaci\u00f3n tras fallo del caso Antipulpo; condenan a Alexis Medina a 7 a\u00f1os<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n“Every time she knows a case (the court), it’s as if she feels she’s in a process of involution, things are more serious. And I think, we believe, that we have to reflect ourselves,” she said.\n\n“It’s not that we have all the prosecutors working to put in jail whoever does the wrong thing, no; what we aspire to is that they don’t have so much work so that the system is a little more relaxed,” he added in a reflection in which he insisted that lower-ranking public employees should not be blinded by corruption.\n\n“We cannot have a careless blindness because if we do, we are going to get involved in bad things,” he indicated before alleging that technically, and according to his criteria, the court could not “subsume” some punishable behaviors of the defendants, which did not mean, he said, that the judges did not appreciate how bad the things judged were.\n\n“Hopefully we start to change, because if we don’t learn to change, we will always have these processes and they will always be bad: we talk about that boy in the neighborhood who kills someone to steal a cell phone, if we equate things, we honestly don’t know which is worse,” indicated Judge Soto Pe\u00f1a.\n\nThe brother of former President Danilo Medina, Alexis Medina S\u00e1nchez, who led the corruption scheme, was found guilty of bribery in commerce and investment, money laundering, use of false documents, and criminal association.\n\nMedina S\u00e1nchez will also have to pay a fine of 150 minimum wages.\n\nThe court also sentenced Jos\u00e9 Dolores Santana Carmona to 6 years in prison and 5 years to Wacal Vernabel M\u00e9ndez Pineda, Francisco Ram\u00f3n Brea Morel, Carlos Mart\u00edn Montes de Oca, Rigoberto Alc\u00e1ntara Batista and Paola Mercedes and V\u00edctor Mat\u00edas Encarnaci\u00f3n.\n\nThe processed Medina S\u00e1nchez, Jos\u00e9 Dolores Santana Carmona, Wacal Vernabel M\u00e9ndez Pineda, Paola Mercedes and Rigoberto Alc\u00e1ntara Batista and several companies must pay 500 million to the Dominican State.\n\nAlso, the companies Domedical Supply SRL; Fuel American Inc.; General Supply Corporations SRL; General Medical Solution AM SRL; Kyanred Supply SRL; Suim Suplidores Institucionales M\u00e9ndez SRL; United Suppliers Corporations SRL; WattmaxDominicana SRL; WMI International SRL; Wonder Island Park SRL; Acorpor SRL; Ichor Oil SRL; Globus Electrical SRL; Contratas SolutionServices CSS SRL; Constructora Alc\u00e1ntara Bobea (CONALBO) SRL; Proyectos Engineering & Construction PIC SRL; Reivasapt Investment SRL; Suhold Transporte y Log\u00edstica SRL.\n\nJuan Alexis Medina S\u00e1nchez and the other convicts must serve their prison sentences in the Najayo Men’s and Najayo Women’s correction and rehabilitation centers, in the province of San Crist\u00f3bal, in addition to paying the criminal costs of the process.\n\nUnder the agreement reached with the Public Ministry, the defendant V\u00edctor Mat\u00edas Encarnaci\u00f3n Montero was found guilty and sentenced to 5 years in prison, with the court ordering the suspension of the sentence, subject to rules, including residing at the address that was notified to the court. He was also sentenced to pay the criminal costs and a fine of 500 thousand pesos.\n\nThe following were acquitted: Fernando Rosa, Carmen Magalys, Freddy Hidalgo, Rafael Antonio Germos\u00e9n And\u00fajar, Lina Ercilia de la Cruz Vargas, Pachristy Emmanuel Ram\u00edrez, Carlos Jos\u00e9 Alarc\u00f3n, Libni Arodi Valenzuela Matos, Jos\u00e9 Miguel Genao Torres, Antonio Florentino M\u00e9ndez, Jos\u00e9 Idelfonso Correa Mart\u00ednez, Aquiles Alejandro Christopher S\u00e1nchez and Fulvio Antonio Cabreja G\u00f3mez\n\nAlso, the companies Cemeraf and Editorama were acquitted of money laundering and released from paying the legal costs of the process.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santo Domingo.- Before issuing a sentence that condemned Alexis Medina, brother of former president Danilo Medina, the judges of the Second Collegiate Tribunal of the National District, Claribel Nivar (president of the tribunal), Yissell Soto Pe\u00f1a and Clara Sobeyda Castillo, stated that “society definitely has to stand up to all this scourge, because corruption, without […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":478545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[36952],"tags":[18075],"class_list":{"0":"post-478544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-justice","8":"tag-alexis-medina"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-08-13-at-6.29.31-PM.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-20us","dum_api":{"author_name":"Arelis Suero","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cropped-cropped-Diseno-sin-titulo-41-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Justice"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-08-13-at-6.29.31-PM.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}