NewsWhore
07-20-2009, 07:00 PM
Hoy reports that in the last five years the Department for the Persecution of Administrative Corruption (DPCA) has archived 49% of the cases that it has received. Since 2004 the DPCA received 163 cases of which on 30 have been sent to other judicial institutions, while 133 have been archived. Another 5 cases have been taken to trial and another four have been suspended. In all, only 3 cases have resulted in a sentence, the first being the Plan Renove corruption case, which sent Fabio Ruiz, Antonio Paulino Reynoso (Padre Tono), William Mendez Montes de Oca, Antonio Marte, Blas Peralta and Amaro Guzman to jail. The second case was that of Yorman Solano Vasquez from the Border Development Department, who was found guilty of accepting bribes. Finally, there was the 2008 case against Dominga Fabiola Henriquez, former treasurer at the Immigration Department, who was found guilty of stealing RD$1.7 million from collections at the Las Americas Airport.
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