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Reports about corruption in the Dominican Republic continue to swirl around Washington D.C. Sources have indicated to the Miami Independent that INTRANT Director and Pais Possible founder Milton Morrison and his underling Jhonattan Chevalier are facing an investigation under the U.S. Corrupt Practices Act over an alleged embezzlement and real estate scandal.
The same sources recently told the Miami Independent about a US Department of Homeland, Security and FBI investigation into two prominent figures in the government of St. Lucia.
In addition, last month brought confirmation that the FBI was investigating a former Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, who it is alleged ,engaged in drug trafficking in cooperation with certain officials in the DR. He may still be doing so.
The DR corruption scandal has widened with two U.S Citizens the new focus of a Federal investigation. This scandal spans back to when Milton Morrison, who founded the upstart ‘Pais Posible’ political party in 2017, served as General Administrator of Edesur Dominicana SA (EDESUR). EDESUR is one of the top public electricity providers in the Dominican Republic. While at EDESUR, Morrison engaged in profligate real estate deals for properties with values far exceeding anything he would be able to afford on a meager civil servant’s salary.
According to contracts obtained by the Miami Independent, Morrison and his wife, Davidia Del Carmen Jimenez, purchased a property in Weston, FL in Aug. 2021 for a total of $837,500. A Claim of Lien filed by 911 Mold Testing LLC on the property for the total of $21,297 in Dec. 2024 suggests that Morrison and his wife continue to own the property. If the value of these properties were reported publicly, they may have raised some eyebrows as to how Morrison could have afforded such lavish accommodations with a government job.
First it was secret real Estate dealings, but now the focus of the FBI investigation is on two U.S. Citizens who have dual citizenship in the DR, who are said to be Morrison’s confederates in a bid rigging scandal that made public a vast data base of sensitive information about US Citizens who have visited the Dominican Republic, in violation of US Law.
Morrison reportedly failed to report the real estate deals he conducted during his time at the head of EDESUR, concealing his illicit actions from public scrutiny. He violated Article 14 of Law 311-14, which states that public officials are mandated to submit records of their asset portfolio without any exceptions when they enter and depart from public office. The penalties for violating this provision include removal from office, being banned from serving in public office in the future, criminal charges for submitting fraudulent documents, and severe fines.
Morrison's suspicious connections with Midas Dominicana (Midas Red) have also raised questions about the depths of his public dealings. EDESUR under Morrison finalized a massive contract with Midas Red, taking over prepaid and postpaid electricity services, in an apparent violation of the nation’s contracting law by sidestepping the necessary public tender process.
Among those involved with Midas Dominicana (Midas Red) are Daniel Ureña Duran and Franklin Ureña Doran—both of whom are U.S. citizens. The Miami Independent was unable to ascertain whether either individual had filed United States federal income tax forms.
The contract process was the handiwork of Morrison’s lieutenant Chevalier, formerly an EDESUR employee. For his servitude to Morrison, Chevalier received a promotion to the Procurement Committee at INTRANT where he oversees contracts beneficial to Midas Red. Chevalier is an influential long-time member of the Pais Posible Party, showing how Morrison has used his bureaucratic perch to enrich his cronies and loyalists.
A Fall From Grace
Milton Morrison had been building up his political star for years in the Dominican Republic. Founding ‘País Posible’ in 2017, a Dominican political party that sells hope and change to the people, Morrison set himself up to be a political kingmaker and used his influence to score an important role with the regime. Morrison has cozied up to current Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader of the Modern Revolution Party. Morrison endorsed Abinader in 2020, lending the blessing of País Posible to Abinader and helping Abinader build the coalition that made it possible to secure the presidency.
Since his appointment as director of INTRANT, Morrison has been one of the loudest cheerleaders of the President’s policies. Morrison hopes that heaping praise on the Abinader regime will bolster his career ambitions of becoming the Barack Obama of the Dominican Republic while potentially shielding him from criminal liability from his EDESUR indiscretions.
“We have an open government and integrator, who in this new period, is leading to the beginning of an ambitious reform plan that will continue to change this nation, which already exhibits large progress and modernization,” Morrison said about Abinader’s policies, translated into English.
Morrison’s obsequiousness has done Abinader no favors. Abinader has been besieged by scandal in recent weeks, being forced to remove General Francisco Osoria de la Cruz as the Director of the General Directorate of Transit Security and Land Transportation (DIGESETT) after the organization was accused of harassing and shaking down drivers. It remains to be seen whether Morrison will be the next public official to receive the axe.
Morrison has made all of his X posts private as he attempts to avoid criticism for the scandal, but he cannot stop the credible accusations from gaining momentum. Morrison’s public image as a crusader against corruption is finally coming apart. Morrison has revealed himself to be another demagogue who uses popular language to exploit the economic hardship of the people.
New Developments: INTRANT Driver License Tender 2025 Under Corruption Scrutiny
The controversy surrounding the public tender INTRANT-CCC-LPN-2025-0001, officially launched on April 23, 2025, for the issuance and management of driver’s licenses in the Dominican Republic, has now escalated into a full-scale corruption investigation. Valued at approximately USD 130 million (RD$8.4 billion), the project ranks among the most lucrative government contracts currently under execution.
Despite strong opposition from civil society, including multiple nonprofit organizations, transparency watchdogs, and public oversight groups, the contract was awarded to Consorcio Mobility ID—the sole participant in the tender. The consortium includes MIDAS Dominicana, a company with documented prior business ties to INTRANT’s director, Milton Morrison, dating back to his tenure at EDESUR, and which also previously obtained the Dominican passport production contract. This repeated pattern of overlapping business relationships has fueled widespread suspicionsof favoritism, conflicts of interest, and the existence of a tightly interlinked network of companies controlling high-value government identification and data-management projects.
Another central figure within the consortium is Consorcio STC, headed by José Alberto Lisac Vélez, who also led the EMDOC Consortium, the group that—together with GSI International—won the contract for the new Dominican national ID card under the Central Electoral Board (Junta Central Electoral). His recurring involvement in major identity and documentation contracts has intensified concerns over the concentration of critical state functions in the hands of a small, interconnected circle of private contractors wielding disproportionate influence over the nation’s identification and biometric infrastructure.
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Dominican Alliance Against Corruption (ADOCCO) filed a formal complaint before the Office of the Special Prosecutor for Administrative Corruption (PEPCA)
On October 8, 2025, the Dominican Alliance Against Corruption (ADOCCO) filed a formal complaint before the Office of the Special Prosecutor for Administrative Corruption (PEPCA), accusing Milton Morrison and the winning consortium Mobility ID of committing multiple criminal offenses under Dominican law. The complaint, submitted by ADOCCO President Julio César de la Rosa Tiburcio to PEPCA Director Mirna Ortiz, alleges that Morrison colluded with Mobility ID to falsify documents and manipulate the public tender process. The charges cite violations of Articles 146–151, 166–176, and 265–266 of the Dominican Penal Code, as well as breaches of the Anti-Money Laundering Law No. 155-17 and Anti-Bribery Law No. 448-06.
ADOCCO’s filing describes a coordinated scheme of document falsification, administrative corruption, and money laundering, all aimed at securing Mobility ID’s uncontested award. Notably, Mobility ID was the only consortium allowed to participate, a situation ADOCCO attributes to restrictive and discriminatory tender conditions, including the requirement of a USD 25 million credit line, which effectively excluded other potential bidders.
Among the most serious findings, ADOCCO highlights the participation of GET Group, a company within the consortium that falsely claimed to be a printer manufacturer, a qualification required by the tender’s technical specifications. However, neither Mobility ID nor GET Group provided verifiable evidence of any manufacturing facility or production capacity. INTRANT’s own technical team, in its final evaluation report on Envelope A, confirmed that no conclusive proof of manufacturing experience was presented and that the documents submitted identified GET Group as a trader or reseller, not a producer. This stands in sharp contrast to the 2019 driver’s license tender, in which GET Group participated through its local distributor Copy Solution International and submitted a manufacturer’s authorization letter from TOPPAN, confirming them as authorized distributors of TOPPAN-manufactured printers. In the 2025 process, no such letter was provided. Instead, ADOCCO attached as evidence a social media post by a GET Group employee showing training sessions with a CLM600 printer labeled “IXLA – Made in Italy,” undermining the company’s self-declared status as a manufacturer.
ADOCCO also denounced irregularities in the bank guarantee letter submitted by Mobility ID. The tender’s terms of reference explicitly required the guarantee to be irrevocable, but the version issued by Banco Banesco omitted that clause. Under Dominican procurement law, this omission constitutes a non-curable defect, grounds for automatic disqualification. Despite this, INTRANT’s Procurement Committee (CCC) proceeded without investigation or correction. Equally troubling, ADOCCO claims that INTRANT ignored all formal objections to the process and advanced the opening of Envelope B—the stage where financial proposals are revealed—ahead of schedule. On October 3, 2025, Morrison convened a press conference to accelerate the award announcement four days before the official tender deadline of October 7, a move widely criticized as a deliberate attempt to finalize the deal before oversight mechanisms could intervene.
Beyond procedural violations, ADOCCO warns of a deeper structural threat: the centralization of the nation’s most sensitive biometric data—including driver’s licenses, passports, and national ID records—in the hands of the same interlinked corporate groups. Such concentration, the organization argues, poses a risk to national security and could facilitate identity fraud and document forgery on a massive scale. De la Rosa Tiburcio emphasized that all supporting evidence—including contracts, correspondence, and technical documentation—has been delivered to both PEPCAand the General Directorate of Public Procurement (DGCP), urging both institutions to conduct a comprehensive investigation into what ADOCCO characterizes as a “rigged and preordained process.”
As scrutiny intensifies, the INTRANT driver’s license tender has become more than just a procurement controversy—it now stands as a critical test of transparency, accountability, and the rule of law within the Dominican Republic’s public contracting system, and potentially another chapter in the expanding corruption investigations surrounding Milton Morrison’s administration.
