Defense Ministry Paid J&J Imports $1.1M Through Repeated Small Invoices

The paper trail keeps growing. First, leaked Smart Stream invoices exposed a pattern of government payments to suppliers connected to the Ministry of Defense. Now, another name has surfaced: J&J Imports. Records reviewed by News Five show that between 2022 and 2025, the company collected more than one point one million dollars from the Ministry of Defense, much of it through repeated invoices kept below the ten-thousand-dollar mark. The leaked documents also show that Enrique Javier Requena, who is linked to J&J Imports, received more than two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars through similar transactions. As more details emerge, so do the questions: Who was approving these payments? Why were so many invoices kept under ten thousand dollars? And what role did political connections play in the process? Tonight, scrutiny shifts to the people behind J&J Imports and the officials who signed off on the spending. News Five’s Paul Lopez reports.