Where'd Sun Land go?

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The Alternative Social Forum (FSA) is asking what has happened with the court proceedings for the controversial Sun Land corruption case. Hoy reports that yesterday the FSA held a vigil outside the Supreme Court commemorating the one-year anniversary since charges of violation of the Constitution in the case were filed. FSA spokesman Fidel Santana said, "Institutionalism is dead and we have come here to celebrate the first anniversary of its death in the DR." He added that FSA would continue pressing for the case to move forward, although he said that the judicial branch has shown it is not independent from the executive branch. The Sun Land case dates back to 2006 when US$130 million in loans were to taken to finish 10 public works projects that were never completed. No one knows where the Sun Land money went and opponents have argued that President Leonel Fernandez went against protocol, illegally authorizing the loans without going through Congress. Fernandez has claimed the loan was private and therefore not subject to Congressional approval. Formal complaints had been filed against the director of the Office of Supervising Engineers for State Public Works, Felix Bautista. The complaint presented to the District Attorney of the National District, accused Bautista of abuse of confidence and violation of the Constitution and Law 6-06 on Public Credit. Luis Arthur wrote in El Caribe, in January 2008, that the Supreme Court has not responded because the PLD threatened to use their majority in Congress to make a move that could send several of the elderly Supreme Court judges into retirement.
Supreme Court of Justice president Jorge Subero Isa has said the case would be heard as established by the law and when its turn comes up on the agenda of the Supreme Court.

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