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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 18 May 2017
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: US requests update on Odebrecht case
The head of the Dominican Republic’s attorney general’s office (PGR), Jean Alain Rodríguez, arrived in Washington DC on 3 May to meet his US counterpart, Jeff Sessions. The two officials were scheduled to discuss cooperation in the fight against transnational crime. But the main topic of the meeting appeared to be the ongoing investigations in the Dominican Republic (DR) into the regional government corruption case involving Brazilian engineering firm Odebrecht. Sessions signalled his support for Rodríguez during the meeting, endorsing the PGR’s handling of the case. This provided a significant boon for Rodríguez and the government led by President Danilo Medina, who are under growing domestic and international pressure over the case [RC-17-04].
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