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04-07-2009, 01:30 PM
Army Captain Jose Antonio Angulo Batista, personal assistant to the Minister of Hacienda Vicente Bengoa Albizu, is in jail accused of forging ministry checks. National District Prosecutor Alejandro Moscoso Segarra told Hoy newspaper that Angulo Batista would be sent to court to face formal charges in the next few hours. Prosecutors are expected to ask for restraining measures to be enforced. The officer is being held at police headquarters in the Palace of Justice in Ciudad Nueva. So far, the value of the fraud has not been determined. The prosecutor said that the crime is punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Moscoso Segarra told reporters that the investigation was still ongoing, with the aim of establishing whether anyone else was involved or if this is somehow related to the fraud linked to the Department of Pensions and for which several people are on trial.
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