Dominican-Panama bribery links
A DOMINICAN Republic businessman who has admitted receiving $92 million from Odebrecht and is accused of using it to deliver bribes has been linked to scandals in Spain through a company that has an operation in Panama.
Ángel Rondón Rijo, also used the services of Panama Law firm Mossack Fonseca to cover his activities.
Rondón, a prosperous businessman and close friend of the current President of the Dominican Republic Danilo Medina, presented himself as the commercial representative of Odebrecht on the island, and claims to have received The $ 92 million, for his services.
But the Dominican authorities claim that he received the money to distribute it among officials of the Government, something that researchers in Spain think he also did through one of his companies to pay Dominican public servants for the award of contracts
A company with Spanish capital, with a subsidiary in Panama,I Inassa is fingered in Spain for the alleged payment of brimbes to officials of the National Council for Sustainable Development (Conades), for the award of a $ 4.9 million contract to Inassa to build the Sewage system of La Pintada, in the province of Coclé, reports La Prensa.
