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04-07-2009, 02:30 PM
He is suspected of profiting from selling proprietary software designed for the Dominican elections, but it looks like no action is being taken against him. The president of the Central Electoral Board (JCE) said that they are not taking legal action against Jose Suarez Compres, who according to El Caribe used to work in the Computer Department and is the son of the person described as "in charge of the JCE Auditing Department", Carmen Compres, because the program known as Scrutiny and Transmissions had not been registered at the Intellectual Property Office (Onapi).
The program was adapted by JCE technicians and is suspected of having been sold to a private company by Suarez Compres and used in the recent Salvadorean presidential election.
Castanos Guzman said that they had only started the process of registering the intellectual property of the software last week, and as a result the case could not proceed against the employee.
JCE judge Roberto Rosario said he found out about the sale of the software when he traveled to El Salvador as an election observer. He informed the Organization of American States to warn other member countries to not purchase the pirated system that he says is being marketed as having been "used in the Dominican Republic and Haiti," as reported in El Caribe. Diario Libre quotes Roberto Rosario as saying that during his stay in El Salvador he saw Suarez Compres providing technical support to the Salvadorean election board. Suarez Compres resigned his post at the JCE upon his return to the DR, reports the newspaper.
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The program was adapted by JCE technicians and is suspected of having been sold to a private company by Suarez Compres and used in the recent Salvadorean presidential election.
Castanos Guzman said that they had only started the process of registering the intellectual property of the software last week, and as a result the case could not proceed against the employee.
JCE judge Roberto Rosario said he found out about the sale of the software when he traveled to El Salvador as an election observer. He informed the Organization of American States to warn other member countries to not purchase the pirated system that he says is being marketed as having been "used in the Dominican Republic and Haiti," as reported in El Caribe. Diario Libre quotes Roberto Rosario as saying that during his stay in El Salvador he saw Suarez Compres providing technical support to the Salvadorean election board. Suarez Compres resigned his post at the JCE upon his return to the DR, reports the newspaper.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)