Dominican former law minister arrested on suspicion of diverting funds


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  • Wednesday, 30 Jun 2021

FILE PHOTO: Dominican Republic's Attorney General Jean Alain Rodriguez speaks during a news conference on the attack on baseball legend David Ortiz, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic June 19, 2019. REUTERS/Ricardo Rojas/File Photo

SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - Dominican authorities arrested a former attorney general on Tuesday over accusations of diverting public funds to a political group that backed the Dominican Liberation Party, (DLP) during his term that ran until August.

Jean Alain Rodriguez becomes the Caribbean nation's first former attorney general to be prosecuted. His arrest is the fourth in "Operation Medusa", an investigation into officials of the attorney general's office in recent years.

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