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07-21-2009, 07:30 PM
The National Department of Persecution of Administrative Corruption (DPCA, formerly "Depreco") filed a case against the former director of the Program to Reduce Blackouts (PRA), Marcos Lara Lorenzo and other collaborators, who it accuses of taking RD$12 million through different fraudulent maneuvers.
According to the Diario Libre, the DPCA director, Hotoniel Bonilla, filed his case before the judge coordinator of Instruction for the National District, Rosalba Garib Holguin, requesting that the magistrate set a hearing date to decide on a petition to have a RD$3 million bail bond and a travel impediment established on Lara, the former administrative director Sauris Rodriguez Sanchez and the former administrative manager, Nicolas Concepcion Nunez. The complaint established that as par of the results revealed in an audit of the CDEEE, the PRA department head moved hardware and construction materials that were supposed to be used in the remodeling of two offices, one on Abraham Lincoln and the other in the Herrera Operations Center.
The materials were used for a project called "The Christian Renovator Movement" that was coordinated by Lara. The audit says that of the RD$894,248 disbursed for the PRA for these remodeling jobs, RD$313,235 were identified as purchases of materials for these offices which were transferred to the 27 de Febrero Avenue and another part to Independencia Avenue, where the ministry "Chosen Of God" operates. Among the invoices audited are some that were from Ferreteria Genial, which were verified in order to prove the authenticity of the data. However, "Investigative personnel went to the address where the business was allegedly supposed to be, discovering that the entity had no fixed place of business," says the DPCA report. The investigation makes clear that Lara placed family, relatives and members of his church "Chosen of God", with the idea of retaining funds from the salaries for his own use. The documents say that Lara hired six nephews, three brothers-in-law, an ex-wife, a father-in-law, five relatives and 18 members of the church.
The situation came out into the open after Nuria Piera aired an investigative journalism TV show on Channel 9.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#3)
According to the Diario Libre, the DPCA director, Hotoniel Bonilla, filed his case before the judge coordinator of Instruction for the National District, Rosalba Garib Holguin, requesting that the magistrate set a hearing date to decide on a petition to have a RD$3 million bail bond and a travel impediment established on Lara, the former administrative director Sauris Rodriguez Sanchez and the former administrative manager, Nicolas Concepcion Nunez. The complaint established that as par of the results revealed in an audit of the CDEEE, the PRA department head moved hardware and construction materials that were supposed to be used in the remodeling of two offices, one on Abraham Lincoln and the other in the Herrera Operations Center.
The materials were used for a project called "The Christian Renovator Movement" that was coordinated by Lara. The audit says that of the RD$894,248 disbursed for the PRA for these remodeling jobs, RD$313,235 were identified as purchases of materials for these offices which were transferred to the 27 de Febrero Avenue and another part to Independencia Avenue, where the ministry "Chosen Of God" operates. Among the invoices audited are some that were from Ferreteria Genial, which were verified in order to prove the authenticity of the data. However, "Investigative personnel went to the address where the business was allegedly supposed to be, discovering that the entity had no fixed place of business," says the DPCA report. The investigation makes clear that Lara placed family, relatives and members of his church "Chosen of God", with the idea of retaining funds from the salaries for his own use. The documents say that Lara hired six nephews, three brothers-in-law, an ex-wife, a father-in-law, five relatives and 18 members of the church.
The situation came out into the open after Nuria Piera aired an investigative journalism TV show on Channel 9.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#3)