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10-10-2008, 04:00 PM
The General Prosecutor's Office has issued a document whereby it does not object that the Supreme Court of Justice annul a sentence that condemns the president and vice executive of the Banco Nacional de Credito (Bancredito) to eight years in jail for fraud against bank customers. The communication is signed in the name of the General Prosecutor Radhames Jimenez Pena, who could not be reached by journalists for confirming he had authorized the document. Reportedly he is abroad. The second in charge at the Prosecutor's office was neither available to reporters, and was said to be on medical leave. News commentators say that the signature is not legible. The document would make possible that the eight-year jail and RD$2.5 million indemnity sentence issued to bankers Arturo Pellerano Pena and Felipe Mendoza on 11 August by judges of the Second Penal Court of Appeals of the National District be discarded on grounds that customer claims against the bankers have been dropped.
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