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08-18-2008, 06:10 PM
Attorney General Radhames Jimenez ordered the suspension of two assistant district attorneys so that they can face a disciplinary hearing after the commission investigated the events that occurred in Bani before and after the 5 August massacre. The commission turned up evidence against the two assistant district attorneys. At the same time the AG reported that they are going to place former district attorney Victor Cordero before the courts on penal charges. Jimenez Pena told Diario Libre reporter Federico Mendez that the assistant district attorney Maspero Atuey Santana and the investigator Ester Gonzalez would be brought up on disciplinary charges. The commission investigating the activities of Cordero also recommended his suspension. The commission said that Cordero and his staff "were seriously compromised" in relation to drug activities in the area.
Meanwhile, Peravia senator Wilton Guerrero, who had denounced complicity of police and prosecutor authorities of the province with drug trafficking, said he was saddened and embarrassed by the results of the commission that investigated the murder of six in the province. The report established that community members cleared General Hilario Gonzalez y Gonzalez, who Guerrero had accused of complicity with the drug dealers in the region. Guerrero said he would present new evidence against the General.

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