In the ruling announced this Friday, the court does not see the accusation provenas established by the Dominican Criminal Procedure Code, and rejects the appeal of the Attorney General’s Office.
Therefore, orders that all assets seized from Díaz Rúa and Ángel Rondón be returnedwho had been convicted of money laundering from illicit enrichment and bribery.
Specifically, Díaz Rúa He was sentenced to five years in prison for money laundering.while Rondón received eight years after being found guilty of distributing the million-dollar bribes and money laundering.
The court considers that The officials who allegedly received the bribes have not been identified.something essential to prove the crime, and therefore there would be no element to support the convictions.
Besides, Lawyer Conrado Enrique Pittaluga Arzeno is exonerated from criminal liability in response to the prosecution’s request that he be convicted of illicit enrichment, but this could not be proven, so his acquittal was upheld.
Diaz Rua and Rondon They were the only ones convicted in the Dominican Republic in the Odebrecht casethe biggest corruption scandal ever tried in this Caribbean country after the Brazilian construction company admitted that it had paid more than US$92 million to officials in exchange for the awarding of public works contracts.
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