{"id":481250,"date":"2025-09-03T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/mp-agreement-with-maxy-montilla-sparks-criticism-lawmakers-say-there-must-be-criminal-responsibility\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T13:52:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:52:04","slug":"mp-agreement-with-maxy-montilla-sparks-criticism-lawmakers-say-there-must-be-criminal-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/mp-agreement-with-maxy-montilla-sparks-criticism-lawmakers-say-there-must-be-criminal-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"MP agreement with Maxy Montilla sparks criticism: lawmakers say there must be criminal responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo. -<\/strong> The agreement between the Public Ministry<\/a> and Maxy Montilla and his companies, in which they accepted their criminal responsibility and agreed to pay more than 3,000 million pesos as part of the resolution of the octopus corruption case, has sparked criticism and some deputies say there should be criminal liability.\n\nThe deputy of the Fuerza del Pueblo, Jos\u00e9 David B\u00e1ez, indicated that the return reveals that there was subtraction from the public treasury and the Public Ministry must act in accordance with the laws.\n\n\"Beyond that, the corresponding penalty must exist, even though that position of returning those resources is taken into account,\" Baez stated.\n\nFrom his side, the deputy of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), Luis G\u00f3mez, considered that former President Danilo Medina should apologize for why people so close to his administration have been found guilty of stealing state resources.\n\n\"Not only apologize now, he should have apologized before to his brother, to the head of the presidential guard, because everyone knows their situation, sometimes they want to paint the Dominican people as if the PLD and the Fuerza del Pueblo were the panacea, but this people think and returning to either of the two is handing over the treasury to a small group,\" G\u00f3mez indicated.\n\nFrom his side, the deputy of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), Charlie Mariotti Paz, said that criminal responsibility is individual and \"wrongdoing must be accompanied by prison\" so as not to undermine impunity.\n\n\n

You may be interested in: <\/strong>Three months of preventive prison is ordered for police officers accused of raping a Haitian citizen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nMaxy Medina, brother-in-law of the former President of the Republic Danilo Medina, and Alexis Medina, brother of the former president, were linked in the same corruption case for which the latter was sentenced to seven years in prison.\n\nMontilla will hand over to the Dominican State a payment of 2,000 million pesos in cash, as part of the process of recovering the resources diverted through acts of corruption.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santo Domingo. – The agreement between the Public Ministry and Maxy Montilla and his companies, in which they accepted their criminal responsibility and agreed to pay more than 3,000 million pesos as part of the resolution of the octopus corruption case, has sparked criticism and some deputies say there should be criminal liability. The deputy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-481250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Paola Castillo","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-paola-castillo-f-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481250","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\/133537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481251,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481250\/revisions\/481251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}