Vinchos requests to investigate what happened with Biwater

On suspicion that still lack much to clarify in a case of attempted bribery or illicit payments that it involves a British company and Dominican justice, the President of the Commission on ethics and fight against corruption has asked the National Directorate of prosecution of corruption to investigate why the Biwater International left the country after winning millionaires contracts in aqueducts.

Dr. Marino Vinicio Castillo (Vinchos) has written a letter to the director of the CAPD, Lic. Hotoniel Bonilla, in which imposes it its suspicions about "onerous inflexibility the executed" and warns him that the State could "be affected and damaged in operations of payment compulsive, accompanied by embargoes, the exorbitant sum of $ 9 million claiming justice to the English company".

El doctor Castle refers to a complaint made in November the Ambassador of United Kingdom in the country, u000aSteven Fisher, in front of the highest authorities of the time of the judiciary, in the sense that a British company forced her to leave the country for failure to pay bribes. It has never identified publicly that company. LISTÍN DIARIO recalled, in one of his Chronicles, the English company Biwater had a problem that dilucidó in court, but that closed once the case withdrew from the country.

Castle became interested in this case and in his letter shows your complaint because "during the lengthy interview which held with important British officials, a day before the complaint, not said me nothing concerning the inconformity" had with the way in which the case was its outcome. "So", says Dr. Vinchos Castle "took the initiative to appear at the Office of the director of the Institute of Acueductos y Alcantarillados (INAPA), in my capacity as Chairman of the Committee on ethics and combat to" u000a"Corruption, seeking to know whether the complaint in question referred to the English company Biwater International, which had built important works of the capacity of the aqueducts of La Romana, San Cristóbal and San Francisco de Macorís".

Director of INAPA gave the Castle doctor an "extensive and meticulous explanation" of the history of that company in the country and its relations with the State. These data, according to Castillo, "could serve to clarify this vexing and sensitive situation", and hence that you referred a dossier of documents to the degree Hotoniel Bonilla so itself, with its researchers, remove everything in the light.

Statement of the SCJ, where and why...Vinchos
said that, with these documents, has been able to "assume, in principle, very serious convictions about the real implications of the confrontational case", and believes that it is in the presence of "a sensitive issue, of" u000a"international characteristics, which is of significant interest to our State".

The President of the National Commission of Ethics says that "peddling is considered and penalized in our Constitution, as well as in our criminal law and the conventions against corruption, both of the United Nations such as the Inter-American".

Believes that "the judgment of the Supreme Court of Justice put an end to the dispute and made the demand in collection of 9 million dollars in a final and irrevocable title, is one of the sources of information that may be more conducive in terms of determining where, and why, could emerge the demands of money to an entity which was in justice as a defendant"", against which haltingly embargoes which prevented him from becoming a charge of the new contracts" of works which had granted the State by order of 23 million $.

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