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01-31-2008, 03:40 PM
The PRD is asking President Leonel Fernandez to explain his relationship with Nelson Solano Guzman. A Supreme Court document indicates that Solano had ties to numerous mega-projects in the DR at the time of his extradition to the US on heroin trafficking charges.
During a press conference held at the PRD headquarters, party general secretary Orlando Jorge Mera displayed pictures of Fernandez and Solano together on five separate occasions. Jorge Mera asked the government to explain the reasons for awarding, without tender, public works worth more than US$5 billion to Solano. Among the projects Solano had under his wing before he was extradited are Etanol Dominicana, S.A., an alcohol cogeneration energy plant, 1200 MW thermoelectric plants, the Consuelo sugar mill, a project for the purchase of coal with Colombia and construction of a coal shipping port in Santa Marta, Colombia, the Consorcio Vial Dominicana project for the construction of the San Cristobal-Bani highway, Consorcio Septentrional, S.A., the toll booth management of the La Vega-Santiago-Navarrete, Navarrete-Montecristi-Dajabon, and Navarrete-Puerto Plata-Samana and Navarrete-Cabarete highways, tolls for the Dr. Joaquin Balaguer highway, the Highway 5 from Santiago-Navarrete-Puerto Plata-Cabarete toll, the concession for the Maimon Bay Cruise Ship Terminal and the Sociedad Portuaria del Atlantico.
Attorney General Radhames Jimenez has denied that President Fernandez has any links to Solano. Jimenez said that the DR supported and signed the papers on Solano's extradition, and according to him that is enough to prove there is no connection between the two.
See www.suprema.gov.do/sentscj/sentencias.asp?B1=VR&llave=53923 (http://www.suprema.gov.do/sentscj/sentencias.asp?B1=VR&llave=53923)
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During a press conference held at the PRD headquarters, party general secretary Orlando Jorge Mera displayed pictures of Fernandez and Solano together on five separate occasions. Jorge Mera asked the government to explain the reasons for awarding, without tender, public works worth more than US$5 billion to Solano. Among the projects Solano had under his wing before he was extradited are Etanol Dominicana, S.A., an alcohol cogeneration energy plant, 1200 MW thermoelectric plants, the Consuelo sugar mill, a project for the purchase of coal with Colombia and construction of a coal shipping port in Santa Marta, Colombia, the Consorcio Vial Dominicana project for the construction of the San Cristobal-Bani highway, Consorcio Septentrional, S.A., the toll booth management of the La Vega-Santiago-Navarrete, Navarrete-Montecristi-Dajabon, and Navarrete-Puerto Plata-Samana and Navarrete-Cabarete highways, tolls for the Dr. Joaquin Balaguer highway, the Highway 5 from Santiago-Navarrete-Puerto Plata-Cabarete toll, the concession for the Maimon Bay Cruise Ship Terminal and the Sociedad Portuaria del Atlantico.
Attorney General Radhames Jimenez has denied that President Fernandez has any links to Solano. Jimenez said that the DR supported and signed the papers on Solano's extradition, and according to him that is enough to prove there is no connection between the two.
See www.suprema.gov.do/sentscj/sentencias.asp?B1=VR&llave=53923 (http://www.suprema.gov.do/sentscj/sentencias.asp?B1=VR&llave=53923)
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