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Santo Domingo.- The spokesman for the Presidency of the Republic, Homero Figueroa, denied this Thursday that one of the technical reports on the collapse of the Jet Set nightclub roof had been delivered to President Luis Abinader before being sent to the Attorney General's Office of the Republic (PGR).
The clarification comes after a source revealed that one of the reports from the National Office for Seismic Evaluation and Infrastructure and Building Vulnerability (Onesvie) had reached the president about 15 days before being delivered to the prosecuting body.Homero Figueroa denies that Onesvie's report on the collapse of Jet Set was delivered to the president before the PGR
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