Tourism Minister Felix Jimenez is preparing to face charges brought to him by Deputies of the PRSC and PRD opposition parties who are members of the Chamber of Deputies’ Protected Areas Commission; they will serve papers before the Supreme Court accusing him of violating the Environment Law and using his influence for personal gain.  

PRSC Deputy Mario Fernandez has explained the situation saying “that a group of lawyers are preparing the complaint against Jimenez ready for it to be filed before the Supreme Court, among other things he authorized a permit in the Park of the East where he does not have the authority to use those lands, for which he received numerous payment in Euro Dollars”.  

Two journalists Judith Febles and Patricia Solano asked the legislator who replied that “the officials (Felix Jimenez) company is building the “Vista Mare” project in Samana, which he does not have the permit for environmental impact for its construction.

However he does have a decree by President Leonel Fernandez which authorizes him to use the land between the beach and the 60 meter high tide mark, even though he has broke the Environment Law in his condition of Minister of State to appropriate public assets, because that strip belongs to us all”.  

The Legislator also throw out on the table that “if Jimenez doesn’t have anything to hide, then he should come to the Chamber and tell us if it’s true that Carlos Sanchez gave him five million Euros to authorize a land strip that has been denounced in those programs.”  

He also said “they are hoping the Spanish government will actually authorize Carlos Sanchez who is involved in the Marbella Government corruption scandal in Spain, to come to the Dominican Republic, because we want to give an example because in this government the first official has yet to be called to testify and that is the reason this morass continues”.