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06-25-2008, 01:40 PM
A former government official who took RD$1.7 million in funds from the Immigration Department at Las Americas International Airport was sentenced to three years in prison by magistrate Antonio Sanchez Mejia and assistant judges Pilar Rufino and Giselle Mendez. The court fined the former official RD$2 million and added RD$3 million in damages. The money was collected between 21 and 22 of June 2007. This is one of the few cases successfully prosecuted by the Office of Persecution of Corruption.
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