{"id":501483,"date":"2026-03-04T19:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/alexis-medina-sanchez-changes-defense-to-face-appeal-in-the-antipulpo-case\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T19:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:34:09","slug":"alexis-medina-sanchez-changes-defense-to-face-appeal-in-the-antipulpo-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/alexis-medina-sanchez-changes-defense-to-face-appeal-in-the-antipulpo-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexis Medina S\u00e1nchez changes defense to face appeal in the Antipulpo case"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo.<\/strong> \u2013 The businessman Alexis Medina S\u00e1nchez, the main defendant in the so-called Antipulpo case, hired a new legal representative for the knowledge of the appeal filed against the sentence that sentenced him to seven years in prison.\n\nAttorney Wendy Lora takes over the defense in place of Richard Martinez, who represented him during the trial on the merits before the Second Collegiate Court of the National District.\n\nIt’s not the first time Medina has modified his legal team. At the beginning of the process, during the coercion measure stage and part of the preliminary trial, he was assisted by lawyer Carlos Salcedo, who later withdrew citing professional reasons.\n\nLora had prior participation in the process, representing Carmen Magalys Medina S\u00e1nchez, former vice president of Fonper and sister of the main defendant, who was acquitted by the court that heard the trial on the merits.\n\n\n
You can also read: MP appeals Alexis Medina’s sentence and requests 20 years in prison<\/a><\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\nAlthough the appeal resources were filed between January 30 and February 5, they have not yet been sent to the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeals of the National District.\n\nOnce received, the president of that instance, Julio C\u00e9sar Cano Alfau, must conduct a random draw to assign the process to one of the three chambers that make up the Court.\n\nIn that phase, both the appeal filed by Medina and his companies and the appeals presented by the Public Prosecutor’s Office and other convicted parties will be known.\n\nCondemnation and appeals\n\nThe court that issued the sentence, composed of judges Claribel Nivar Arias, Yissel Soto and Clara Castillo, found Medina guilty of bribery, money laundering and association of wrongdoers.\n\nIn addition to the seven-year prison sentence, he was ordered to pay a fine equivalent to 150 minimum wages and the seizure of assets in favor of the State.\n\nThe Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca) also appealed the decision, considering that the sanction imposed does not correspond to the magnitude of the damage attributed to the accused. The Public Ministry had requested 20 years in prison, alleging that the scheme had defrauded the State of more than five billion pesos between 2012 and 2020.\n\nFurthermore, the prosecuting body appealed the sentences and dismissals of other individuals involved, both those convicted and acquitted, in a process that continues to generate public expectation and is now entering a new judicial stage before the Court of Appeals of the National District Nacional<\/a>.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santo Domingo. \u2013 The businessman Alexis Medina S\u00e1nchez, the main defendant in the so-called Antipulpo case, hired a new legal representative for the knowledge of the appeal filed against the sentence that sentenced him to seven years in prison. Attorney Wendy Lora takes over the defense in place of Richard Martinez, who represented him during […]<\/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":[40216],"tags":[43444,41904],"class_list":["post-501483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-dominican-news","tag-alexis-medina-sanchez","tag-antipulpo-case"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-26sr","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":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501483","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=501483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}