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Senator Felix Bautista responds to allegations.




SANTO DOMINGO The senator and secretary of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), Felix Bautista, said that "If they give me Haiti whole to rebuild, I would."

In defending the business done with the Haitian Government, and which have created a scandal in the neighboring country due influence peddling and other irregularities that would have made quit Prime Minister Garry Conille, the influential leader of the PLD responded to a questioning from Diario Libre:

"I wish and they gave me Haiti whole to rebuild."

In an interview with the morning paper said that he is entitled to do business in construction as an engineer.

"They have criticized the fact that I'm building in Haiti. I say that I am a civil engineer and I have every right, and participated in a bidding process in Haiti where my private company participated and won ... and I wish they gave me Haiti full to rebuild it, "he told Diario Libre.

The influential politician was interviewed by the newspaper in connection with the companies Construction Rofi and Construction Hadom, who got contracts worth U.S. $ 280 million to build 3,000 houses in Mont Cabritte, a Central Bank building and Avenida La Saline, Haiti, as part of the reconstruction of the neighboring country because of the earthquake that virtually destroyed the city of Port au Prince on January 12, 2010.

After receiving complaints about alleged irregularities in awarding contracts to the Dominican legislator, former Haitian Prime Minister Conille Garry, who had been nominated by President Michel Martelly and ratified by the Haitian Parliament, arranged for an investigation of case.

Conille later resigned, and in Haiti it's said he was pressured to resign by President Martelly, which in turn would have been under pressure from the Dominican Republic, because of the scandal that has come up the name of Felix Bautista.

Conille's resignation, Senator Bautista told Diario Libre:

"I was not me who did it and, moreover, that bid was in the government of Préval's government after that came Martelly, reviewed the contracts and advances made to start work."

Although Senator Bautista said that their companies won bids, the former Prime Minister Jean Max Bellerive, in the government of Rene Preval, explained that the delivery was made without competitive bidding by the urgency of rebuilding the country after the 2010 earthquake.

Senator Felix Bautista said to Diario Libre, he also showed plans for the construction of the Palace of the Parliament of Haiti and for a hospital, works for which he proposed for the purpose of participating in tenders.

The Sanjuanero Senator has been insisting that behind the allegations is jealousy from some Haitian interests.

The admission by Senator Batista that he owned the international construction companies that he is a millionaire, then contrasts with the sworn statements of assets in 1996, when he just declared a wealth of just 547 thousand pesos.

In 2010-assuming the senate, declared Batista a heritage that amounted to some 16 million pesos, representing a huge increase over the first term of President Leonel Fernandez, as stated in the act 4-2010, dated 12 August 2010, signed by the senator himself PLD, by Ricardo Ramirez Monegro (control) and Milka Luisa Garrido Jansen (control). In the rest Acento.com.do files a copy of that document.

Its economic rise is far from its humble beginnings in his native San Juan de la Maguana and its practice unknown outside political activity and the roles he has held in the State.

See the attached documents:

http://www.acento.com.do/index.php/uploads/246/Hadom-RNC-pdf.pdf&usg=ALkJrhiq7vZ4r8PMn7aWT8t8Q5VknARUvw

http://www.acento.com.do/index.php/uploads/247/Hadom-Mercantil-pdf.pdf&usg=ALkJrhgLCJFx2o9li11lI3bZniv3wuasHA

http://www.acento.com.do/index.php/uploads/250/HadomHaiti-pdf.pdf&usg=ALkJrhiT6Bvs4E7eqIABLrI8qfBmDN3Q6g

http://www.acento.com.do/index.php/uploads/249/BidOffer-pdf.pdf&usg=ALkJrhhACELA3f1RT_Es85QvMVRtOi9Dvg

http://www.acento.com.do/index.php/news/13518/56/Como-fue-la-licitacion-que-gano-Felix-Bautista-en-Haiti.html&usg=ALkJrhiuoydnPAuqPKeR4MwQFPUVdyr54w

http://www.acento.com.do/index.php/news/13564/56/Senador-Felix-Bautista-Ojala-que-me-den-Haiti-entero-para-reconstruirlo.html