Datocentro must pay

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The Civil and Commercial Court Second Chamber has ordered Datocentro to pay the Central Electoral Board (JCE) RD$50 million for failure to fulfill contractual obligations, and has also ordered that the contract, which was signed in 1997, should be rescinded. The court came to the decision even though Domingo Russo Pla, who was in charge of Macro Investments for Datocentro, was not present at the ruling. The JCE began proceedings against Datocentro in May 2006 with a US$20 million suit, alleging that the company had not modernized the JCE as had been promised, instead providing the JCE with equipment that didn't work properly. The JCE also informed that because of the lack of work by Datocentro the JCE had to invest an extra US$600,000 for modernizing the census system, and an added RD$92 million in 2000 for modernization of the cedula identification card. Datocentro was contracted in 1997 to help modernize the JCE, with a plan that included modernization of the cedula cards and the census system, and restructuring the city hall offices.
Datocentro is a bankrupt company that has discontinued operations. Despite failure to comply with the JCE contract, the company had not been held accountable until now.

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