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12-12-2006, 05:20 PM
Customs (DGA) head Miguel Cocco is voicing his concern about inefficiency on the part of the courts in convicting criminals who have been apprehended by the Customs department. Cocco says that the DGA does its job in catching the criminals but that the courts don't prosecute them. Cocco said that there still haven't been any breakthroughs in last week's case where 11 large shipments of merchandise, with an estimated value of RD$300,000 were stopped at customs while being smuggled into the country without paying taxes, and added that the shipment was billed to ghost companies, which are set up to receive such shipments. Cocco commented that either the DGA is not doing its job or the courts aren't doing theirs.
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