Alfredo Pacheco (politician)

Alfredo Pacheco Osoria (born 12 January 1959) is a Dominican Republic politician from the Modern Revolutionary Party who has been President of the Chamber of Deputies since 16 August 2020, and previously during 2003-2006.

[1] Alfredo Pacheco Osoria began to develop his political vocation at a very young age when he was barely 18 years old in 1977 and since then he has been actively affiliated with the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD).

[3] On the morning of May 29, 2017, the attorney general of the Republic, Jean Alain Rodríguez Sánchez, implicated 14 men - among them businessmen, politicians (including a minister) and a lawyer - of being part of the Odebrecht corruption scheme.

[4] On June 7, 2017, Special Instruction Judge Francisco Ortega Polanco ruled that the deputy would have to report periodically to the Public Prosecutor's Office as well as a bail of five million pesos and an impediment to leave the country due to his alleged involvement in the Odebrecth case.

[5] On June 7, 2018, after a year and a half of investigation, in which audits and testimonies of Odebrecht executives were reviewed, Attorney General Jain Alain Rodríguez explained that no evidence was found to include Alfredo Pacheco and 7 other former officials in the case file.

Prior to this, Alfredo Pacheco had explained that the Chamber of Deputies does not have constitutional powers to participate in bids, awards or signing of contracts for the construction of works.