{"id":475258,"date":"2025-07-15T22:46:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T02:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/pacheco-and-quezada-admit-to-having-defrauded-the-state-in-a-bribery-network-of-operation-lobo\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T22:46:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T02:46:25","slug":"pacheco-and-quezada-admit-to-having-defrauded-the-state-in-a-bribery-network-of-operation-lobo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/pacheco-and-quezada-admit-to-having-defrauded-the-state-in-a-bribery-network-of-operation-lobo\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacheco and Quezada admit to having defrauded the State in a bribery network of Operation Lobo"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Santo Domingo<\/strong>.\u2013 Andr\u00e9s Pacheco and Ram\u00f3n Quezada, two of the accused in the corruption network investigated by the Public Ministry called Operaci\u00f3n, admitted their involvement in the events during the coercion measures hearing held this Tuesday at the Palace of Justice of Ciudad Nueva.\n\nBoth defendants admitted to having participated in fraudulent schemes against the Dominican State, through the demand for bribes and the manipulation of contracts between public entities and private companies.\n\nAccording to the prosecutor&#8217;s file, Pacheco Varela received between 2017 and 2020 almost 5.2 million pesos through transfers made by the company Servicios Nacional de Seguridad Integral (Senase), while he was on the payroll of the Empresa Distribuidora de Electricidad del Norte (<a href=\"https:\/\/edenorte.com.do\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/edenorte.com.do\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edenorte<\/a>).\n\nYou can also read:\n\nFor his part, Ram\u00f3n Quezada Ortiz admitted to having demanded in 2015 bribe payments of 100,000 pesos for each invoice that Senase managed to collect from Edeeste. In his role as contract supervisor, he used his influence to condition contractual payments on the delivery of said amounts, assuring the company protection against audits and contractual reviews. This practice extended until his departure from the entity in 2020.\n\nThe Public Ministry points out that both defendants acted as part of a criminal structure made up of military and civilians, which operated through systematic bribery schemes in institutions of the energy sector.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.\u2013 Andr\u00e9s Pacheco and Ram\u00f3n Quezada, two of the accused in the corruption network investigated by the Public Ministry called Operaci\u00f3n, admitted their involvement in the events during the coercion measures hearing held this Tuesday at the Palace of Justice of Ciudad Nueva. Both defendants admitted to having participated in fraudulent schemes against the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1ZDs","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Carolina \u00c1lvarez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-26-at-5.31.57-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}