MP: Fraudulent network in SeNaSa created “special programs” to channel bribes and justify irregular payments

Santo Domingo. – The Public Ministry maintains that for four years the criminal structure that operated within the National Health Insurance (SeNaSa), led by its then executive director, Santiago Hazim Albainy, would have set up a framework of “special programs” without technical support, created exclusively to channel bribes to private contractors and justify irregular payments through mechanisms with the appearance of legality. The file details that the Health Management was processing fraudulent payments to the Financial Management, using administrative procedures that simulated institutional legitimacy. These movements allowed for the execution of millionaire diversions in favor of previously selected third parties, supported by documents and resolutions prepared to give false support to each operation. One of the most serious elements pointed out by the prosecutors is the direct manipulation of the institutional database, where members of the alleged criminal structure altered records of pending obligations, modified amounts, justified fictitious invoices, and erased inconsistencies that could reveal the fraud scheme.

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This intervention, according to the prosecution, was key to sustaining the illicit operation without raising internal alerts. The indictment also explains that the network implemented rapid authorization circuits, designed to approve transactions without technical review or controls. This mechanism allowed them to bypass internal audits, accelerate the release of funds, and maintain the flow of irregular payments without facing questions from the departments responsible for oversight.

Coercion Measure

It will be at 2:00 p.m. this Tuesday when the Permanent Attention Office of the National District knows coercion measure against Santiago Hazim and the other nine defendants in Operation Cobra. The Public Ministry requested 18 months of preventive prison, as a coercive measure, for the accused and that the case be declared complex. The individuals implicated in Operation Cobra are, in addition to Hazim: Gustavo Enrique Messina Cruz, Germán Rafael Robles Quiñones, Francisco Iván Minaya Pérez, Eduardo Read Estrella, Cinty Acosta Sención, Rafael Luis Martínez Hazim, Ramón Alan Speakler Mateo, and Heidi Mariela Pineda Perdomo.