Santo Domingo, RD.
“The engineer has no comments,” the former Opret director, Diandino Peña, said upon his arrival at the prosecutor’s office for questioning at the agency’s prosecutor’s office. Persecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca).
The former official arrived before the specified date for his meeting with the persecuted party, and upon approaching him By journalists he indicated that he did not know why he was called.
It emerged on Wednesday that the former official had been summoned to appear before Bebka at 4 p.m., after they filed a complaint against him with the Public Prosecutor’s Office (PGR) in the middle of last month.
According to this document, Peña, his family, and his alleged men were asked to steal more than 9.2 billion during his tenure in Opret.
Specifically, he was charged with using 14 companies linked to his relatives to obtain several work contracts in the construction of the Santo Domingo metro lines. Violating various laws, including Law 06-340 on Public Procurement and Contracting, and the Public Administration Law.
Among the crimes that Peña is alleged to have committed are collecting criminals, fraud against the state, evasiveness, laundering of assets derived from corruption, and other crimes that are punishable under the Dominican Penal Code.