Nine named in Pensions case

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The Department for Prevention of Corruption (Depreco), has formally requested that the coordinating magistrate at the Santo Domingo courts of instruction authorize an order to remand Ministry of Finance Pensions Department director Servio Tulio Suncar Liriano, and sub-director Isabel Soto Santana into preventive custody. Both are accused of being part of the ring that collected thousands of pesos each month in fraudulent pension checks. Octavio Lister, the head of Depreco, told Diario Libre reporters that the ring used to contact people, offering them "government assistance" of one or two thousand pesos per month, but retained the beneficiary's check card. According to the case files, the people collecting this "government assistance" were being issued checks for RD$30,000 or RD$55,000 each month. Lister said that his investigators had found 27 different accounts at Banco de Reservas where the money was deposited.

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