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07-21-2011, 04:10 PM
The Supreme Court judges who are about to retire, given the mandatory 75 retirement age, have been in the press for their request for retirement privileges including the same wages they are currently earning and benefits.
Today however, the local press published the translation of a WikiLeaks document that says the US considered revoking the US visa for vice president of the Supreme Court of Justice Rafael Luciano Pichardo. The cable dates back to 13 September 2006. Its translation is reprinted in El Caribe.
It says that president of the Supreme Court of Justice Jorge Subero said that Luciano Pichardo appeared to be deeply involved in official corruption and was possibly trying to subvert the case against those implicated in the Baninter bank fraud in 2003. The document states that Subero suggested the government would not take any action against Luciano Pichardo and thus the Embassy investigated whether the revocation of Luciano Pichardo's visa would be appropriate.
Commenting on the performance of Jorge Subero as president of the Supreme Court, the US Embassy document called Subero a "proactive leader who has great affinity with the rule of the law, public debate and the use of technology in the judicial sector."
But at the same time, comments that Subero "is not willing to directly confront corruption in the higher levels of government."
Local press highlighted that Subero said that Luciano Pichardo had admitted to having received US$40,000 from an unnamed person for an unnamed purpose. Subero also said that two of the sons of Luciano Pichardo also were involved in accepting large sums of money and that it was known that Luciano Pichardo asked the judge who presided over the criminal case against Baninter to exercise a certain flexibility in regards to motions of the defense.
In 2008, judge Rafael Luciano Pichardo admitted his son Rafael Alberto Luciano Corominas had been involved in the case of US$580,000 confiscated by the Customs authorities when his son, Juan Jose Martin Gomez and pilot Ovalles Tejada were arrested after arriving in the country on a private plane with US$580,000 in unreported cash. The Supreme Court judge said the pilot accepted full responsibility for the irregularly transported cash.
www.hoy.com.do/el-pais/2011/7/20/385023/Subero-dice-a-EU-que-juez-Pichardo-recibio-US40000-de-alguien (http://www.hoy.com.do/el-pais/2011/7/20/385023/Subero-dice-a-EU-que-juez-Pichardo-recibio-US40000-de-alguien)
www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=14709&page=2 (http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=14709&page=2)
www.diariodigital.com.do/articulo,28314,html (http://www.diariodigital.com.do/articulo,28314,html)
www.7dias.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=65566 (http://www.7dias.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=65566)
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Today however, the local press published the translation of a WikiLeaks document that says the US considered revoking the US visa for vice president of the Supreme Court of Justice Rafael Luciano Pichardo. The cable dates back to 13 September 2006. Its translation is reprinted in El Caribe.
It says that president of the Supreme Court of Justice Jorge Subero said that Luciano Pichardo appeared to be deeply involved in official corruption and was possibly trying to subvert the case against those implicated in the Baninter bank fraud in 2003. The document states that Subero suggested the government would not take any action against Luciano Pichardo and thus the Embassy investigated whether the revocation of Luciano Pichardo's visa would be appropriate.
Commenting on the performance of Jorge Subero as president of the Supreme Court, the US Embassy document called Subero a "proactive leader who has great affinity with the rule of the law, public debate and the use of technology in the judicial sector."
But at the same time, comments that Subero "is not willing to directly confront corruption in the higher levels of government."
Local press highlighted that Subero said that Luciano Pichardo had admitted to having received US$40,000 from an unnamed person for an unnamed purpose. Subero also said that two of the sons of Luciano Pichardo also were involved in accepting large sums of money and that it was known that Luciano Pichardo asked the judge who presided over the criminal case against Baninter to exercise a certain flexibility in regards to motions of the defense.
In 2008, judge Rafael Luciano Pichardo admitted his son Rafael Alberto Luciano Corominas had been involved in the case of US$580,000 confiscated by the Customs authorities when his son, Juan Jose Martin Gomez and pilot Ovalles Tejada were arrested after arriving in the country on a private plane with US$580,000 in unreported cash. The Supreme Court judge said the pilot accepted full responsibility for the irregularly transported cash.
www.hoy.com.do/el-pais/2011/7/20/385023/Subero-dice-a-EU-que-juez-Pichardo-recibio-US40000-de-alguien (http://www.hoy.com.do/el-pais/2011/7/20/385023/Subero-dice-a-EU-que-juez-Pichardo-recibio-US40000-de-alguien)
www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=14709&page=2 (http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=14709&page=2)
www.diariodigital.com.do/articulo,28314,html (http://www.diariodigital.com.do/articulo,28314,html)
www.7dias.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=65566 (http://www.7dias.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=65566)
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)