Santo Domingo.- The Public Ministry maintains in the file of the so-called COBRA 2.0-A operation that some affiliates of the National Health Service, SENASA, appeared with medical consultations and procedures registered on dates and times when they were outside the Dominican Republic.
The accusation points out that during the interviews conducted with the investigated affiliates, some stated that they had not received the medical services that appeared recorded in their medical records and that they also did not know the professionals who were listed as responsible for that care.
The file details that, in addition to the cases of people who were out of the country, other affiliates indicated that on the dates of the alleged consultations they were working, at their homes, or outside the city where they were supposedly treated. For the Public Prosecutor’s Office, those circumstances made it impossible for them to have gone to the medical centers.
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The investigators also pointed out that some of the affiliates did not even know the existence or location of the offices where they had supposedly received care. The document states that these testimonies were repeated among people residing in different parts of the country.
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According to the theory presented by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the selection of some of these affiliates was allegedly due to their low interaction history with SENASA, which supposedly reduced the possibility that they would quickly detect that their data was being used to register medical services.
The file links these testimonies with the audits carried out by SENASA and the expert reports from INACIF on claim forms, within an investigation that covers thousands of medical authorizations registered between 2021 and 2025.
The prosecuting body indicated that this is a systematic corruption scheme installed by the executive director of SeNaSa, Santiago Hazim, in coalition with officials of that ARS and with the participation, in criminal association, of health service providers, to the detriment of the Dominican State.
