Santo Domingo, RD.
The Prosecutor’s Office (PGR) reported that investigations into the case of Kimberly Taveras, the former Minister of Youth, continue this week with summons her ex-husband.
In a press release referring to a corruption investigation involving the former Finance Minister, Donald Guerrero Ortiz, and the former Director General of the Reserve Bank, Simon Lizzardo Mezquita, the authority indicated that the Directorate of Persecution and the Office of the Special Prosecutor for the Persecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca) are questioning Carlos Ventura, husband of Taveras previous this week.
The day and time when Kimberly’s ex-husband will be interviewed is still unknown.
For this week, the Persecution Directorate and Pepca are set to continue questioning various officials in the accounts room. The Attorney General’s office said in a press release that Juan Carlos Ventura, who is being investigated in the corruption case against his ex-wife Kimberly Taveras Duarte, a former youth minister, will also be questioned.
Last December, after obtaining a license to investigate her assets, Kimberly Taveras Duarte reported that she was resigning from her position as youth secretary.
The former minister has now clarified that she has how to prove to the country the way in which she acquired all of her assets, at a young age, amounting to R $ 74 million.