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10-09-2008, 03:40 PM
Newly appointed ambassador to Colombia Angel Lockward has been ordered to pay a RD$500 fine and RD$2 million in compensation for defamation against Judge Alejandro Vargas. Lockward is an erstwhile PRSC political activist who has also held numerous jobs in the governments of former Presidents Joaquin Balaguer, Hipolito Mejia and now, Leonel Fernandez. During former President Hipolito Mejia's government he was accused of a corruption scam while at the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, but under the Fernandez government the state prosecution withdrew the charges and the case was dropped.
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