[StevenS]

http://youtu.be/ICV0IX7wOfY

[Indoendris]

It does seem like it's hit the fan! Nuria Piera is on at 8:00 pm tonight, with more documents.

[StevenS]

Scandal and Corruption Threatens Political Stability on Both Sides

Scandal and Corruption Threatens Political Stability on Both Sides

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PRLog (Press Release) - Feb 24, 2012 -
An investigation, by Haitian Prime Minister Dr. Garry Conille, into contracts worth several hundred million dollars that would have been granted unfairly to Dominican companies with close ties to President Fernandez, threatens to bring about a political crisis that can explode both sides of the island.

Former Prime Minister Jean Max Bellerive signed those contracts just a few days before leaving office on May 14th, 2011. The investigation by the audit commission created by Conille might reveal that the kickback from this deal served to finance the campaign of the then presidential candidate Michel Martelly. The three main companies under investigation in these contracts are Constructora Rofi , Constructora Hadom , Construcciones y Disenos RMN; all three believed to belong to Dominican strongman Senator Felix Bautista. The senator is well known for being Dominican President Fernandez’s right hand and financier. Felix Bautista has an exhaustive infamous record in Dominican Republic ranging from bribe, mismanagement of government funds, corruption and more. He has also been under investigation for apparent links with notorious drug lord Figueroa Agosto.

Haiti since the earthquake of January 2012, has received over 4 billion dollars worth aids from international donors. More than 2 years after the disaster most of the money is unaccounted for.
The blame has been shifted back and forward from corruption of government officials, ONGs, to lack of coordination in the disbursement of the aid.

This story is not just about the misuse of desperately needed funds for the poorest country in the northern hemisphere, but the story of how one man rises among the corrupted government officials and attempts to bring order in country of chaos at the risk of losing his credibility, his career and possibly his life.

The Haitian President, Michel Martelly pressured by his counterpart in Dominican Republic has demanded Prime Minister Conille to cancel the investigation into the matter or resign.

Early today, the Prime Minister has received direct threats from armed tugs linked to the Haitians President.

I have privileged information on the matter and wish to make this story public to mainstream media, so that the world can know what is really going on in Haiti and why the change so desperately needed cannot come about.

Interested parties can kindly email me for more information at

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Sincerely,
Richard


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[justashonglefan]

You already discredit yourself when you said that Haiti received 4 billions in aid, when the truth is that those countries that offered funds haven't even come forward with those funds. DR so far has been the only country footing the bill.

[StevenS]

Attorney General sends Bautista case to DPCA

Attorney General Radhames Jimenez Pena has instructed the Department for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (DPCA) to investigate Senator Felix Bautista, the subject of large-scale corruption allegations. The Dominican government authorities ordered the DPCA to investigate the alleged evidence of irregularities in office, corruption and trafficking of influence, kickbacks to Haitian President Michel Martelly, presented by TV journalist Nuria Piera on her report "Path of Millions" that aired on TV on Saturday, 31 March and Monday, 2 April. The irregularities include the fact that Felix Bautista's company that was chosen for multi-million-dollar contract work for the Haitian government did not meet the five-year minimum time in operation requirement, having been created shortly before the highly lucrative contract was allocated.

Felix Bautista is regarded as one of President Fernandez's closest allies. Prior to winning the San Juan senate seat, he spent eight years as director of the Supervisory Office of Public Works of the Presidency (OISOE), a department that operates parallel to the Ministry of Public Works as a major builder of public works nationwide, from roads to hospitals and schools, and low-income and luxury housing.

In the Fernandez administration, in addition to being senator for San Juan de la Maguana, he is the organizational secretary of the ruling PLD party. His party has institutionally backed Felix Bautista, denying any wrongdoings.

The Fernandez government and its department for administrative corruption, despite operating under multiple names, has a practically null record of prosecution of administrative corruption in almost 12 years of government.

The PRD and the Dominican Alliance Against Corruption (Adocco) and its president Julio Cesar de la Rosa have asked for Jimenez Pena to not handle the case, on the grounds that Jimenez Pena had a conflict of interest because he was Felix Bautista's defense lawyer when the latter was accused of corruption and sent to Najayo jail in a case concerning the construction of the San Juan highway, at the end of the first Fernandez administration in 2000. Radhames Jimenez Pena was a lawyer employed at the law firm made up by Leonel Fernandez and Margarita Cedeno, now his wife. Bautista was later acquitted. Jimenez Pena has said he will not be conducting the investigation, that it will be DPCA, another government department.

Nuria Piera says that this is not a journalistic airing of an investigation carried out in the heat of the 2012 presidential election. She says she has been following Felix Bautista's career with reports on his work in 2000, 2007, 2009, 2010 (twice), and in 2012. Bautista was known to be a struggling tailor in San Juan de la Maguana when he joined the Fernandez administration during its first term in 1996. In his statement as a government official in 1996, he said his assets totaled RD$547,000. In 2010, upon being sworn in as a senator, he admitted to RD$16 million in assets.

On her show, however, Nuria Piera presented evidence that he owns property, including several luxury apartments, worth at least US$10 million.

Watch Nuria Piera's allegations at http://www.nuria.com.do/casos.php

Because of its cross-border implications, the story has received international coverage.

According to Haitian officials, as reported in the Miami Herald, one of the companies that benefitted from the Haitian government contracts, Hadom, was only incorporated as a Haitian firm in July 2010, and was awarded a contract four months later. Its contracts include US$33 million to construct a new parliament building. Constructora Rofi, another company belonging to Felix Bautista, was awarded US$174 million to construct the Fort National housing project.

On the heels of the scandal, President Leonel Fernandez hosted President Michel Martelly of Haiti in the Dominican Republic on 26 March and awarded him the highest Dominican award. Neither Martelly nor Fernandez were available for comments to the press, and instead issued a joint declaration on agreements.

The contracts were awarded by former Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive, who has defended his right to use Haiti's 18-month post-quake emergency law to award no-bid contracts. Bellerive is today advisor to President Martelly, and is said to be his cousin.

No official statement from the Martelly government has been sent to the Dominican government. Nevertheless, press reports indicate that the Haitian Presidency used its Twitter account to "categorically reject the allegations that the President of the Republic, Mr. Michel Joseph Martelly, has been involved in any corruption case involving firms or individuals from the Dominican Republic."

The tweets described the accusations as a media lynching, part of a vast public opinion smear campaign to tarnish the image of the President and undermine his integrity.

News stories are also linking the construction of the university built in Haiti with Dominican taxpayer money to companies linked to senator Felix Bautista.

[StevenS]

ALL FINANCIAL AID to the haitian government should be placed on hold until a full investigation and removal of martelly if found guilty is done.

[StevenS]

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