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10-05-2006, 03:10 PM
Clave newspaper continues with its expose on former Public Works Minister Miguel Vargas Maldonado's questionable business deals. The weekly newspaper reports that he refused to speak to their reporters about the findings. He excused himself by saying he was concentrating on the announcement of his aspirations to the PRD candidacy for the 2008 presidential election. He has the support of former President Hipolito Mejia's PPH faction.
The newspaper looked into the business ties between Vargas Maldonado and Carlos Sanchez, Andres Lietor and Jose Avila Rojas, who are accused in the Marbella, Spain (Operation Malaya institutional corruption case) scandal. In addition to the Hotel Hispaniola deal revealed last week, this week's edition of Clave looks into the case of the sale of property at the Torre Boreo, adjacent to the Mirador del Sur park. Clave mentions that it appears that financial problems regarding the devaluation of the peso in 2003 affected the Constructora Zacarias building firm, and Vargas Maldonado, then Public Works Minister purchased several of the apartments, later transferring several to Carlos Sanchez and Andres Leitor (as per the domicile listed on their Dominican ID card) and others involved in the Spanish scandal. According to Clave, Vargas Maldonado intervened before the municipal authorities so that the tower could irregularly acquire a 200-meter chunk of Mirador del Sur parkland for the building's parking spaces.
Clave also reveals that the 69 apartment complex (Torres Geminis) going up on a 7,000 square meter lot at Anacaona Avenue on the corner with Luperon Avenue are also linked to Carlos Sanchez, who is in jail in Spain in the corruption case. Another building that is being linked to the Spanish real estate scandal is the Torre Winston Churchill, a 31-storey construction located at Bolivar and Winston Churchill avenues.
See http://www.clavedigital.com
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The newspaper looked into the business ties between Vargas Maldonado and Carlos Sanchez, Andres Lietor and Jose Avila Rojas, who are accused in the Marbella, Spain (Operation Malaya institutional corruption case) scandal. In addition to the Hotel Hispaniola deal revealed last week, this week's edition of Clave looks into the case of the sale of property at the Torre Boreo, adjacent to the Mirador del Sur park. Clave mentions that it appears that financial problems regarding the devaluation of the peso in 2003 affected the Constructora Zacarias building firm, and Vargas Maldonado, then Public Works Minister purchased several of the apartments, later transferring several to Carlos Sanchez and Andres Leitor (as per the domicile listed on their Dominican ID card) and others involved in the Spanish scandal. According to Clave, Vargas Maldonado intervened before the municipal authorities so that the tower could irregularly acquire a 200-meter chunk of Mirador del Sur parkland for the building's parking spaces.
Clave also reveals that the 69 apartment complex (Torres Geminis) going up on a 7,000 square meter lot at Anacaona Avenue on the corner with Luperon Avenue are also linked to Carlos Sanchez, who is in jail in Spain in the corruption case. Another building that is being linked to the Spanish real estate scandal is the Torre Winston Churchill, a 31-storey construction located at Bolivar and Winston Churchill avenues.
See http://www.clavedigital.com
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#11)