Jean Alain Rodríguez Sánchez

Rodríguez was arrested in Santo Domingo on June 29, 2021 on charges of corruption. Rodriguez is the first attorney general to be prosecuted in the country's history.

On June 30, 2021, Dominican authorities arrested Rodriguez over accusations of diverting public funds towards groups that supported the Dominican Liberation Party and destroying records related to extraditions, asset seizure, and criminal activity during his tenure as Attorney General of the Dominican Republic. He is accused of defrauding the Dominican state out of more than RD$6 billion (US$ 103.4  million dollars) as part of a complex criminal ring whose activities included conspiracy, fraud, bribery, forgery of public documents, identity theft, cybercrime, and money laundering. Rodriguez is the first attorney general to be prosecuted in the country's history.

The arrest took place after Rodriguez was prevented from boarding a flight headed towards Florida on June 24, 2021. The decision to prevent Rodriguez from leaving the country was controversial, as no arrest warrant had been issued against him at that time.

On July 13, 2021, Rodriguez was sent to pre-trial detention for 18 months. Three former officials were likewise sent to pre-trial detention, while three other individuals implicated in the case were ordered to serve their pre-trial detention in house arrest.

In a 2017 plea agreement, Odebrecht admitting to bribing officials to secure contracts and agreed to pay a $184 million fine. Rodríguez asked for certified copies of the confessions of Odebrecht executives, sanctioned by the Supreme Court of Brazil. Rodríguez met with his Brazilian counterpart on the case.

The Odebrecht cases resulted in the arrest of several persons, including persons charged included ministers, ex-ministers, and other officials accused of money laundering, bribes and submitting false sworn financial statements. Rodriguez sought prison terms of for charged. In 2017, the Special Judge of the Preliminary Hearings of the Supreme Court of Justice, Francisco Ortega Polanco, declared there was enough evidence provided by the AG for the case to go to trial and ordered that 10 of the 14 defendants in the case be detained pretrial. One of the accused was a fugitive, and subject to an arrest warrant and Interpol notice). Those remanded include Victor Diaz Rua, who had previously served as the country's Minister for Public Works and Communications, as well as the nations current Minister of Commerce, Temistocles Montas, who handed in his resignation to the Dominican president as a direct consequence of his being remanded. Rodríguez described the prosecutions as an important anti-corruption move.

In March 2017, the AGO's office issued an average salary increase of 25% for all public prosecutors and the first wage scale for the office. Through the National School of the Public Ministry, at the request of the AG, a training program has been developed for all staff.

Rodríguez was the Attorney General of the Dominican Republic from August 16, 2016 until August 16, 2020. He served as executive director of the CEI-RD (2012-2016), legal adviser to the Directorate General of Customs (2004–2005), of the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (INDOTEL) (2004–2009) and of the Tourism Ministry (2004–2006), auxiliar lawyer of the Tax Attorney of the National District (1997), substitute judge and member of the Board of the National District (2010–2012), as well as other public functions.

Rodríguez opened the Odebrecht case after the United States Department of Justice, in December 2016, disclosed information about acts of corruption by Odebrecht in several countries, including the payment of bribes in the Dominican Republic. Odebrecht's offices in the Dominican Republic were raided and there were more than 25 interviews of congresspersons, officials, lobbyists, lawyers and auditors. During the first weeks of January 2017, Rodríguez requested the temporary suspension of Odebrecht as a government contractor, a measure that was confirmed by the Office of Contracting and Procurement.

In 2014, he was elected member of the Central Committee of the Dominican Liberation Party, with over 77,000 votes.

On August 17, 2012, President Danilo Medina appointed Rodríguez as Executive Director of the Dominican Republic Export & Investment Center (CEI-RD for its initials in Spanish), via the presidential decree number 460-12.

During his tenure as director of the CEI-RD, he received a bronze medal in 2012, a silver medal in 2013 and two gold medals for his excellent role as a public official in CEI-RD in 2014 and 2015.

Under his directorate, the four-year presidential period 2012-2016 ended with a toughened place no. 1 as investment destination in the entire region; the development of the One Stop Investment; over 9.5 billion US dollars in direct foreign investment; an increase in exportations of almost 14%, in times in which the world's exportations suffer an average decrease of 10%; and more than 108,000 jobs and work opportunities generated by the investment attraction and the development of exportations. Direct foreign investment was a key part of his campaigns when he took on the role.

From then on, he has taken a role as member and campaign manager, contributing in the presidential campaigns of 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016. In some of those campaigns, he was appointed as National Coordinator of Major Projects, presided over external movements of national support, integrated technical teams, worked on the External Movement Coordination, the Transition Acts Committee, as well as other relevant campaign duties.

Since the 1990s, Jean Rodríguez is an active member of the Dominican Liberation Party, where he studied politics.

Jean Alain Rodríguez Sánchez (born May 10, 1975) is a Dominican lawyer and politician former Attorney General of the Dominican Republic. He was appointed to the position of President Danilo Medina. Before becoming Attorney General, Rodríguez Sánchez served as the executive director of the CEI-RD (2012-2016). He is a member of the Central Committee of the Dominican Liberation Party (Spanish: Partido de la Liberación Dominicana, or PLD), the previous governing political party in Dominican Republic until August 16, 2020.

Jean Alain Rodríguez Sánchez was born on May 10, 1975 in Santo Domingo, National District, Dominican Republic, to Carlos Rodríguez and Maybé Sánchez (ambassador of the Dominican Republic to Germany).