{"id":494066,"date":"2025-12-09T18:30:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T22:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/lawyer-questions-record-in-operation-cobra-and-denies-fraud-or-money-laundering\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T18:34:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T22:34:02","slug":"lawyer-questions-record-in-operation-cobra-and-denies-fraud-or-money-laundering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/lawyer-questions-record-in-operation-cobra-and-denies-fraud-or-money-laundering\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer questions record in Operation Cobra and denies fraud or money laundering"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Santo Domingo<\/strong>.- The lawyer Carlos Balc\u00e1cer, legal representative of the accused Rafael Luis Mart\u00ednez B\u00e1ez, in the Cobra Operation case, questioned this Tuesday the way in which the Public Ministry is building the accusations.\n\nUpon leaving the court, Balc\u00e1cer stated that the process should be handled with greater responsibility due to the relevance of the issue linked to the National Health Insurance (Senasa).\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;It is important that all actors in the system understand that the case is serious, the Senasa issue is serious, and we understand that the first one who has to understand that situation is the Public Ministry, not to launch frivolous accusations, nor to trivialize the accusations,&#8221; he expressed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe jurist insisted that within the file there are those who, according to him, cannot be attributed the crimes mentioned by the Attorney General&#8217;s Office. He assured that some of the accused have not incurred money laundering or fraud, as the accusation indicates.\n\n&#8220;There are people, without having to define what defense it is, that it is not true that they laundered assets with Senasa&#8217;s money, it is not true. There I have not seen that the scam is configured either. One has to be very careful with the elements of scams and infractions, very careful.&#8221;\n\nThe Public Ministry&#8217;s file establishes that Rafael Luis Mart\u00ednez B\u00e1ez participated in fraud and scam maneuvers in the health sector through the company Grupo Siulrod S.R.L., of which he is not listed as a shareholder, but he did act, according to the Pepca, as its &#8220;<strong>public face<\/strong>&#8220;.\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>You may be interested in:  <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/operacion-cobra-es-caso-mas-grave\/\">Pepca says Operation Cobra: the most serious corruption case<\/a><\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\nThe document indicates that Mart\u00ednez B\u00e1ez allegedly defrauded Nigerian doctor Emmanuel Chinweoke Aja of $40,000, to whom he offered an alliance for telemedicine services between Siulrod\/MyCare and the ECA Advanced Medical Center medical center.\n\nAccording to the record, Mart\u00ednez B\u00e1ez used as persuasion a trophy received for his work in telemedicine and his relationship with the former director of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senasa.gov.do\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.senasa.gov.do\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senasa<\/a>, Santiago Hazim, also charged.\n\nThe accusation alleges that, taking advantage of his family connection with Santiago Hazim, Mart\u00ednez B\u00e1ez secured the preferential assignment of a medical service provider code, which allowed Grupo Siulrod to sign a contract with Senasa in June 2021 and an addendum in December of the same year to operate the MyCare program.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.- The lawyer Carlos Balc\u00e1cer, legal representative of the accused Rafael Luis Mart\u00ednez B\u00e1ez, in the Cobra Operation case, questioned this Tuesday the way in which the Public Ministry is building the accusations. Upon leaving the court, Balc\u00e1cer stated that the process should be handled with greater responsibility due to the relevance of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"featured_media":0,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-494066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-24wO","dum_api":{"author_name":"Carolina Alvarez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-26-at-5.31.57-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494066","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\/133543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}