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NewsWhore
03-02-2010, 06:40 PM
The Customs Department (DGA) has confiscated copper wiring suspected of having been stolen from telecommunications companies. Customs, the Police and officers of the Prosecutor General Office with a judicial search warrant made a surprise visit to a scrap metal business located in the Cienfuegos slum area in Santiago. They found several bags packed with copper that is suspected of having been removed from telephone lines.
The Dominican Republic exports hundreds of thousands in copper a year but is not a producer of the metal. It is known that a sizeable portion of the exported metal is stolen.

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