NewsWhore
11-05-2009, 01:30 PM
November 17 looks to be a day of reckoning for the DR's energy sector. It will confirm whether Celso Marranzini can actually back up his big reform talk. On that day the 15-day period for consumers with illegal electricity connections to "standardize" their situations will come to an end and, according to Marranzini, who says he will implement the law that penalizes energy theft.
The two looming questions about Marranzini's threat is whether the DR courts have the resolve to follow through with the prosecution of energy thieves and whether Marranzini and the courts will judge the larger companies and richer individuals in the DR who evade electricity payments in the same way as the smaller non-paying companies and individuals.
Marranzini, vice president of the State-run Electricity Companies (CDEEE) made his comments during a luncheon meeting at the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham). He said that once the 15-day grace period was over, the matter would go to the courts.
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The two looming questions about Marranzini's threat is whether the DR courts have the resolve to follow through with the prosecution of energy thieves and whether Marranzini and the courts will judge the larger companies and richer individuals in the DR who evade electricity payments in the same way as the smaller non-paying companies and individuals.
Marranzini, vice president of the State-run Electricity Companies (CDEEE) made his comments during a luncheon meeting at the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham). He said that once the 15-day grace period was over, the matter would go to the courts.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#2)