Puerto Rico Department of Sports and Recreation
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| Departamento de Recreación y Deportes de Puerto Rico | |
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| Formed | June 13, 1980 |
| Jurisdiction | executive branch |
| Headquarters | San Juan, PR |
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| Website | www.drd.pr.gov |
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| Executive branch of the government of Puerto Rico |
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The Puerto Rico Department of Sports and Recreation (Spanish: Departamento de Recreación y Deportes de Puerto Rico) is the executive department of the government of Puerto Rico responsible of sports and recreation in the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.[1]
The department's headquarters complex is located in Santurce on the banks of the Martín Peña Channel in Santurce, Puerto Rico.
In January 2021, Ray Quiñones was designated by Governor Pedro Pierluisi as Secretary of the department.[2]
History[edit]
In October 2008 governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá inaugurated the new headquarters of the agency on the site of a former slum known as "El Fanguito" in San Juan at a cost of $24 million.[3]
In June 2017 the FBI informed it had indicted seven individuals linked to a $9.8 million for money laundering and fraud while working for the agency from 2013 to 2016.[3][4] Former secretary of the agency Ramón Orta was among those arrested.[5] In January 2021 Orta was sentenced to six months in prison after pleading guilty.[5]
Secretary[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "DEPARTAMENTO DE RECREACION Y DEPORTES". Government of Puerto Rico. Archived from the original on November 7, 2004. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
- ^ "Con las manos llenas Ray Quiñones, el secretario designado para dirigir el DRD". El Nuevo Día (in Spanish). 2021-01-03. Retrieved 2021-08-30.
- ^ a b "Nueva sede para el deporte y la recreación". Primera Hora (in Spanish). 2008-10-27. Retrieved 2021-09-06.
- ^ InterNewsService. "Director del FBI: "Sabemos quiénes son"". El Vocero de Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-09-06.
- ^ a b Services, Inter News. "Federales arrestan a exsecretario de Recreación y Deportes". Metro (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-09-06.
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