Dominguez Brito awaits Supreme Court's opinion on Felix Bautista

Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito says he stands by his position that the Supreme Court of Justice should reverse the decision to shelve the corruption case file against senator Felix Bautista. He guaranteed he would fulfill his role as attorney general and that his critics should do the same, as reported in Listin Diario. He said he is awaiting the Supreme Court of Justice's decision on whether to revoke the closure of the Bautista casefile.

He rejected speculation suggesting that the move to try Felix Bautista was motivated by an intention to take former President Leonel Fernandez to court, saying he was "one of the former President's men." Dominguez Brito denied rumors that he had met President Danilo Medina to discuss the Felix Bautista case yesterday, Monday 1 October. He said he was at the Presidential Palace to discuss matters pending from the last few days.

Former district attorney Guillermo Moreno commented that the Felix Bautista case would reveal whether President Danilo Medina had a genuine will to persecute corruption or if the policy of erasing the past would continue. He said "the way this case is handled will test the reach of the judicial protection to guarantee impunity to Leonel Fernandez and the corrupt group that accompanied him during his eight years in government," as reported in Hoy.

He called for Hotoniel Bonilla, the director of the government's Anti-Corruption Department to be fired and prosecuted for ordering the definitive filing of the case for corruption against Senator Felix Bautista. He said that Bonilla violated the law when he closed the case for alleged lack of evidence.

Moreno said that the Penal Procedures Code states that filing should be provisional, and that the penal aspects can still be carried out.

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