Drug sentencing "a farce"

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Department for Drug Control (DNCD) Radhames Ramirez Ferreira says that Colombians deported from the DR for drug trafficking manage to return to the country using false documents that they received illegally from the Central Electoral Board (JCE). National Department for Investigation head Sigfrido Pared Perez says that he has concrete evidence that many people, not just drug traffickers, have gone to registry offices and received new identities in this way. Ferreira pointed out that many traffickers in the country are using double identities as just one of the many ways of evading justice. Ferreira is quoted in El Caribe as saying that the justice system in the DR is incompetent and benign, stating that 18 years track record is proof of this. But the concerns about traffickers don't stop there. Attorney General Radhames Jimenez Pena says he is concerned about what he called the farce surrounding sentences handed down to drug traffickers and will meet with Supreme Court president Jorge Subero Isa on the matter. Jimenez cited the case of a man caught on 15 December with 388 kilos of cocaine in his cockfighting club, his second offense, who was let out on RD$100,000 bail. Diario Libre columnist Homero Figueroa points out that the Dominican justice system, in relation to drug cases, is not only blind, it can't smell either. Figueroa writes that some Dominican judges get "happy" when these kinds of cases come before them and that bad instrumentation allows for bad sentences to be emitted.

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