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10-13-2006, 04:00 PM
The former Administrator of National Properties (Bienes Nacionales) under the Mejia administration, Victor Tio Fernandez, and another four people were sentenced to serve two and a half years in prison after having been found guilty of prevarication and criminal association in the misappropriation of 3,382.8 square meters of land belonging to the state. Tio was accused of making undervalued sales of government land on Ave. Charles de Gaulle. Tio Fernandez sold each meter squared of property for RD$5.00, in favorable deals to friends and government officials. More than 3,382.2 meters squared were sold. Four other people accused were found not guilty and yet another - Lorenzo Felipe Rodriguez - was excluded from the process because he is at large. Diario Libre reports that the decision was made by Judge Sergio Antonio Ortega of the Criminal Chamber of the National District Court of First Instance.
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